{"id":5085,"date":"2014-02-17T12:50:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T17:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/blackboard-tip-if-the-week\/"},"modified":"2014-02-17T12:50:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T17:50:43","slug":"blackboard-tip-if-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/blackboard-tip-if-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackboard Tip if the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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 <strong><em>view <\/em><\/strong>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.<\/p>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In the Discussion Board area of your course, select the circular arrow button for the Forum, and then select <strong>Manage <\/strong>from the pop-up menu that appears.<\/li>\n<li>In the <strong>Manage Forum Users <\/strong>window that opens, select the check box to the left of the <strong>First Name <\/strong>column header at the top of the list of course users \u2014 when you do this, the check boxes for all of your course users will be selected.<\/li>\n<li>Select the <strong>Edit Role <\/strong>button that appears directly above the <strong>First Name <\/strong>column header, and then select <strong>Reader <\/strong>from the drop-down menu that appears.<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down to the bottom of the <strong>Manage Forum Users <\/strong>window and select <strong>OK<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Your students will now only be able to access the Discussion Forum on a read-only basis.<\/p>\n<p>As always, do not hesitate to contact the Distance and Online Learning Office (629-7070\/ <a href=\"mailto:DLHelp@hvcc.edu\">DLHelp@hvcc.edu<\/a>) if you have any questions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:50:43 +0000 by\u00a0m.petersen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If you have a Discussion Forum in Blackboard and you do not want your students to be able to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}