·2-hour lecture, demonstration, and hands-on exercises
·Limited to 16
·Registration required

Description

Forums@BU is an interactive web-based bulletin board available to all academic and administrative departments. Departments can use forums to communicate with their students, faculty, staff, and others. Forums can be public or private. Forums also can be discussion boards or announcement-only boards.

In this class, you will learn how to request a forum, use the major features in Forums, and manage a forum for your department.

Benefits

After completing this class, you will be able to:

• understand the difference between public and private forums.
• request a forum.
• add and remove users from a private forum.
• create and delete topics.
• create, edit, and delete posts.
• create forum announcements.
• create quick polls.
• format posts using BBCode.
• create subforums.

Prerequisites

This course is primarily for site administrators who want to add a forum to their departmental websites. Familiarity with Forums@BU is recommended. You should also use the practice forum before class to post or respond to a few messages.

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