Forum

Historically, course conversations were restricted physically and temporally. Instructors and students could only share, for example, questions and answers (Q&A) with people in their particular section in a particular semester. Worse yet, many conversations are private, which stops others from learning from them. Nowadays, we can — and should — publicly communicate with people who are physically and temporally distant. One way to do so is a forum. With those things in mind, this course has a discussion board on a forum; you can go to the forum by clicking here.1

Forum Topics

Anyone can pose any question pertinent to the course. If you have a question related to the course (that is not of a private nature), you should pose it on the forum. If you have the answer to someone’s question, you should provide it on the forum. Asking for and providing a little help goes a long way.

How To Use the Forum

• Go to the forum and Login or Register.2

• For email notifications of new posts and replies, click on the forum for this course, and then click “Notify”.

• To submit a question, click “New Topic”3, put a short but information subject title, preferably in the form of a question, write a message that describes your questions in further details, and click “Notify me of replies”. If you took a screenshot of the problem, you can attach it as a file. Finally, click “Post” (or “Preview” first).

• To submit an answer, related question, or some other relevant information, click on the post, click “Reply” and write the message. If you took a screenshot of the problem, you can attach it as a file. Finally, click “Post” (or “Preview” first).