How to Post on Black Board Discussion Board

Hi, everybody.

I want to show you how to post and reply
on a Blackboard discussion board.

This is the way that we're going
to be communicating online—

one of the ways that we're going
to be communicating online.

So, first thing you do is, you go to
your Blackboard site,

and you put in your ACC eID
and your password, and you sign in.

That will take you to this screen.

If you're on a phone, it's going to
look a little bit differently,

and you'll have to scroll down
towards the bottom of the page

to get to My Courses.

So of course, we're going to click
on this course, Writing II.

Then when we get to Writing II site,
we start with the Announcements page.

And here's the announcement
I sent you guys about the class change.

I have added online course materials.

So, we are starting in Unit 5 Module.

So you'll click on that.

When you get there,
when you click on that,

it takes you to this screen.

This is the Unit 5 module; you'll see this
is all the stuff that's in the module.

This is a document;

these are videos; so these are
videos that you will watch.

After you watch Video Lesson 2, you're
going to post on two discussion boards.

Here's the first one, which is
Activity 1.1 on page 126.

And here's the second one:
Activity 1.2, page 127.

So, you just click on the first one.

And it takes you here.

So what you need to do
is create a thread.

It's not that intuitive to know that,

but you're going to click here
to create a thread.

Okay?

And then when you get there,
to this window,

this is what you're going to see.

Now, this is just the top
part of the window.

You can see—you can
scroll down for more.

And in this discussion,

we're talking about the reasons to
agree and disagree with the prompt.

Some people believe that students
should not be required

to take a class in the arts:

music, drama, art history, etc.

From Activity 1.1 on page 126.

Post your answers in
the discussion board,

and then look and comment
on one to two other posts.

Do you have similar ideas?

These are the reasons that
were already given in the book.

Okay, so you can look at that
when you do yours.

Okay. I'm thinking I'm going to submit.
We don't need to submit yet.

We need to go to the next screen,
because this is only part of the screen.

For the creating-a-thread;
we're gonna creating a thread.

So we scroll down, and this is
what we see when we scroll down.

We see a place to put
a subject, and a message.

So, you can just type that in.

I typed in "Julia's reasons to agree and
disagree with art ed in high school."

And here's my first reason to agree.

My first two reasons.
Blah, blah, blah.

Number one; number two;
blah-blah-blee.

Disagree. Number one: yip, yip yip.
And number two: yadda, yadda, yadda.

So I just typed right in the screen.

Now, a little bit further down, you can
kinda see that it says Attach File,

and then you could
browse your computer.

I cut this part off.

But that would be for a larger file.

Something like this, you're just
giving a short answer, so.

So then we have our Submit button.
If we're ready to submit.

If we wanna just save a draft, then
we can come back and edit later;

or we could cancel and start over.

So I submit it.

And this is what I got when I submitted.

So this is what we'll see next time
we open up this discussion board.

And the more people post,
the more threads that we'll see.

So, besides posting on
a discussion board,

you're going to also comment on
a discussion, on one or two threads.

So, the way to do that is, you get
to this page, and you click on

the thread, right here, and that's going
to take you to this screen.

And you can see that it has my reasons
to agree, and my reasons to disagree.

I'm going to click on Reply.

And that gives me a subject
and message window.

And the message I left was, "Julia,
you are amazing. Quite insightful!"

So you can cancel, save it,
or submit. So I'm going to submit.

And this is the screen I get.

And then I'm going to click OK.

I come back to this screen.

Now, I wanna get out of
the discussion board,

so I'm gonna come back over to
my left, and click on Unit 5 Module.

And that takes me back to this screen.

And then I'm ready to start
discussion board for Activity 1.2.

All right. So that is how you post on
a discussion board in Blackboard.

So let me know if you have any questions.

Here's my email. Of course,
you can always text me.

You have my phone number; and if not,
I'll give it to you again soon. Okay?

Let me know if you have any questions.

Bye-bye.