Blackboard's Discussion Board has long been a powerful tool for stimulating reflection and discussion,
or for peer review of drafts or designs.
The Discussion Board has been changed significantly in our current version, Blackboard 7.2. This class
is designed to help you learn how to take advantage of the Discussion Board.
You'll learn how to:
- Create a new forum
- Modify existing forums
- Choose different forum options to fit your class needs
- Participate in a forum by adding new threads and/or replying to existing threads
- Monitor students' contributions to forums using the Discussion Board and the Performance
Dashboard
- Grade students' Discussion Board participation through the Discussion Board and through the
Discussion Grader building block tool
- Link Discussion Board grades to an item in the Gradebook
- Attach files to Discussion Board posts
- Use the Discussion Board in conjunction with the Groups feature to allow group discussion and/or
collaboration
Prerequisites: Familiarity with the Blackboard system.