As always, when you enter your Blackboard Course, you are brought into the Announcement page area. Click on the Discussion Board folder.
Click on the top-level Forum provided by your professor.
Once you access the Forum, you can offer a new comment of your own by clicking on Add New Thread, writing your comment, and submitting. You can also reply to the top-level Forum, as well as the comments of other students, by clicking on Reply and writing your response to the previous message and submitting. Please note that you may compose, spell check, and grammar check your messages in Microsoft Word and then cut and paste your messages into the submission box. In this way, your messages will be free from spelling and grammatical errors.
Please Note: Only your professor can add a top-level Forum.
Your Professor may have specific instructions for adding threads and/or posting comments/replies. Please make sure you check the Course Information area for these instructions. In general, you will be assigned weekly discussion topics from the Course Documents area.
After reading the weekly discussion topic in the Course Documents area, you will return to the Discussion Board and click on the appropriate Forum. You will then post your discussion comments. To post your comments, simply click on the Add New Thread folder.
Make sure you fill out the Create Message page fully, first making sure that your subject corresponds to the appropriate discussion week. Next, make sure that you have inserted your response in the body of the Discussion.
REMINDER. It is strongly recommended that ALL STUDENTS develop their work in a word processing program, such as Microsoft Word, and spell check and grammar check their messages. Then simply copy and paste the information into the body of the Reply area. This is recommended for all your online work for not only will it guarantee that your work is free of spelling and grammatical errors but it also serves as a backup in case of technical problems.
Click on Browse. Choose Plain Text prior to submitting your posting.
After you proofread your posting for the last time, simply click on the Submit folder to complete your Discussion Board assignment. Remember that spelling and grammar count towards your grade.
Once you have successfully submitted your discussion thread, you will be returned to the top level of the particular Forum.
You will see other students’ postings along with your own. Please make sure that you can see your posting at this point. If you can’t see it, neither can your professor. You will be able to access other students’ postings from this area also.
You will want to reply to the comments of others. Simply click on Reply.
