If you have a Discussion Forum in Blackboard and you do not want your students to be able to post to that Forum after the due-date for posts, you can simply make the Forum unavailable. In the past, if you wanted your students to still be able to view the posts in a Discussion Forum that was past its due-date, but not post to it, you had to change your students status in that Forum on a tedious, student-by-student basis.
In our current version of Blackboard, however, you can get the latter result in a few quick steps. To allow your students to view the posts for a Discussion Forum, but not post to it, do the following:
- In the Discussion Board area of your course, select the circular arrow button for the Forum, and then select Manage from the pop-up menu that appears.
- In the Manage Forum Users window that opens, select the check box to the left of the First Name column header at the top of the list of course users — when you do this, the check boxes for all of your course users will be selected.
- Select the Edit Role button that appears directly above the First Name column header, and then select Reader from the drop-down menu that appears.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the Manage Forum Users window and select OK.
Your students will now only be able to access the Discussion Forum on a read-only basis.
As always, do not hesitate to contact the Distance and Online Learning Office (629-7070/ DLHelp@hvcc.edu) if you have any questions.
Published: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:50:43 +0000 by m.petersen