Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to collection information

Connexions

You are here: Home » Content » Managing your Distance Course » Use the Subscribe to Threads Function to Notify of Questions on the Discussion Board - Managing your Distance Course

Navigation

Lenses

What is a lens?

Definition of a lens

Lenses

A lens is a custom view of the content in the repository. You can think of it as a fancy kind of list that will let you see content through the eyes of organizations and people you trust.

What is in a lens?

Lens makers point to materials (modules and collections), creating a guide that includes their own comments and descriptive tags about the content.

Who can create a lens?

Any individual member, a community, or a respected organization.

What are tags? tag icon

Tags are descriptors added by lens makers to help label content, attaching a vocabulary that is meaningful in the context of the lens.

This content is ...

In these lenses

  • TWU Distance Education display tagshide tags

    This collection is included inLens: Texas Woman's University Distance Education Lens
    By: Keith Restine

    Comments:

    "General information on areas of a distance course where management strategies are important."

    Click the "TWU Distance Education" link to see all content selected in this lens.

    Click the tag icon tag icon to display tags associated with this content.

Recently Viewed

This feature requires Javascript to be enabled.

Tags

(What is a tag?)

These tags come from the endorsement, affiliation, and other lenses that include this content.
 

Use the Subscribe to Threads Function to Notify of Questions on the Discussion Board - Managing your Distance Course

Module by: Keith Restine. E-mail the author

Summary: This module discusses use of the Subscribe to Threads function in Blackboard as one way to notify you about questions about the course.

One of the practices we recommend is to create special discussion boards to house questions about the course (often labeled as FAQs or Q and A). You can create a single forum for questions or categorize questions about different aspects of the course into separate forums. Once you create the forum(s), you can use another feature to notify you via email each time a student posts to the board. This feature can save you time and effort by only going to these boards when you know you have a question to answer.

When you create this Forum, be sure to go to Forum Settings and enable Allow members to subscribe to threads. DO NOT enable Allow members to create new threads. After creating a forum for questions, post the first thread to the forum. The one we have found most useful is "Submit all questions by clicking on this thread and replying. Your reply to the thread will be your question about the course." We also suggest you disable the students' ability to post new threads to this forum.

Make sure you subscribe to this thread in order to be notified via email when someone posts a question about the course.

Collection Navigation

Content actions

Download module as:

PDF | More downloads ...

Add:

Collection to:

My Favorites (?)

'My Favorites' is a special kind of lens which you can use to bookmark modules and collections. 'My Favorites' can only be seen by you, and collections saved in 'My Favorites' can remember the last module you were on. You need an account to use 'My Favorites'.

| A lens I own (?)

Definition of a lens

Lenses

A lens is a custom view of the content in the repository. You can think of it as a fancy kind of list that will let you see content through the eyes of organizations and people you trust.

What is in a lens?

Lens makers point to materials (modules and collections), creating a guide that includes their own comments and descriptive tags about the content.

Who can create a lens?

Any individual member, a community, or a respected organization.

What are tags? tag icon

Tags are descriptors added by lens makers to help label content, attaching a vocabulary that is meaningful in the context of the lens.

| External bookmarks

Module to:

My Favorites (?)

'My Favorites' is a special kind of lens which you can use to bookmark modules and collections. 'My Favorites' can only be seen by you, and collections saved in 'My Favorites' can remember the last module you were on. You need an account to use 'My Favorites'.

| A lens I own (?)

Definition of a lens

Lenses

A lens is a custom view of the content in the repository. You can think of it as a fancy kind of list that will let you see content through the eyes of organizations and people you trust.

What is in a lens?

Lens makers point to materials (modules and collections), creating a guide that includes their own comments and descriptive tags about the content.

Who can create a lens?

Any individual member, a community, or a respected organization.

What are tags? tag icon

Tags are descriptors added by lens makers to help label content, attaching a vocabulary that is meaningful in the context of the lens.

| External bookmarks