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Facilitating discussions

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Facilitating discussions

As I mentioned in the last movie, there are three best practices for using Blackboard's discussion board. First, don't assume that your students will know how to participate in an online discussion. Second, set your expectations at the beginning and let your students know these. And third, model the behavior you're looking for. So let's go in and see how our discussion is going. I'm going to click on Discussions in the Course Menu. And this opens the Discussion Board page which shows me the name of each forum and a description. It's going to show me the total number of posts in each forum. The total number of unread posts. The total number of participants. And notice there actually is a search box up here as well. I have to click on this button to get it. To access a discussion board forum, and to see the threads in it click the forum's name. By the way, you can also click the button beneath the forum, and click Open if you want to. But I'm just going to click the forum's name. One of…

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