Use the Discussions Tool Topic Description for Your First Posting

In Blackboard 6, the Discussions tool can include categories (such as Module 1, Module 2, Module 3, or Graded Discussions and Ungraded Discussions). Then under each category, you can create topics that separate the various issues/themes you want your students to discuss (such as “Global Warming” or “I Need Help!” or “Student Lounge” or “War on Terror”). In WebCT 4.1, you could create an initial posting to define the purpose of that area or topic of discussion. Each semester, you’d need to re-enter that initial posting.

With CE 6 you can now use the Topic’s Description (select the ActionLinks icon and then the Edit Properties option) as your initial posting. Then when you copy the course to the next semester, the description is copied and you don’t need to re-enter it each semester.