{"id":5701,"date":"2014-09-08T12:21:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T16:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/blackboard-tip-of-the-week-87\/"},"modified":"2014-09-08T12:21:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T16:21:18","slug":"blackboard-tip-of-the-week-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/blackboard-tip-of-the-week-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackboard Tip of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Bb 9.1 April 2014<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Lurking among the numerous improvements<\/strong><\/span> in the new version of <em>Blackboard<\/em>\u00a0(<em>Bb 9.1 April 2014<\/em>)\u00a0is a glitch in the functionality of the Discussion Board (apparently, Murphy can not be entirely suppressed). Specifically, if you read your students\u2019 posts for a Discussion Forum, you discover, when you return to the main Discussion Forum window, that all of your read posts are displaying as being unread. This can be frustrating if you have a large number of posts for the Forum, and you want to keep accurate track of the posts that you have read.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>Blackboard <\/em>is aware of this glitch,<\/strong> <\/span>and plans to push through a fix in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime, there are two ways in which you can work around the glitch.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The first workaround<\/strong><\/span> is to go into <strong>List View <\/strong>so that you can see the exact number of \u201cunread\u201d posts for the Discussion Forum (the numbers display in blue circles to the far right of each student\u2019s name). You can then select all of your students\u2019 posts, and mark them as read by selecting <strong>Mark as Read <\/strong>from the <strong>Thread Actions <\/strong>drop-down menu.\u00a0 Here\u2019s how you do that:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/acaddb.hvcc.edu\/~m.petersen\/bbtotw\/images\/090814\/01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/acaddb.hvcc.edu\/~m.petersen\/bbtotw\/images\/090814\/02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"758\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The second workaround<\/strong><\/span> may be preferable for faculty who routinely collect their Discussion Forum posts in order to read them. What you do is collect your posts (which then display in a <strong>Collection <\/strong>window), and then mark them as read as you are reading and\/or replying to them. The following screenshots illustrates the steps for doing this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/acaddb.hvcc.edu\/~m.petersen\/bbtotw\/images\/090814\/03.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"753\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/acaddb.hvcc.edu\/~m.petersen\/bbtotw\/images\/090814\/04.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"781\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/acaddb.hvcc.edu\/~m.petersen\/bbtotw\/images\/090814\/05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Use the following link to download a printable version of this Bb tip of the week:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/acaddb.hvcc.edu\/~m.petersen\/bbtotw\/printable_copies\/BBTOTW_09082014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Download the Tip<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Use the following link to view previous Bb tips of the week:<a style=\"color: #528f6c;\" title=\"BBTOTW-Archive\" href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/author\/m-petersen\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<strong><em>BBTOTW-Archive<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>As always,<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0please do not hesitate to contact the Distance and Online Learning Office (<strong>629-7070 \/\u00a0<\/strong><a style=\"color: #528f6c;\" title=\"DLHelp@hvcc.edu\" href=\"mailto:DLHelp@hvcc.edu\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>DLHelp@hvcc.edu<\/strong><\/em><\/a>), if you have any questions, or if you would like to receive training on this topic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:21:18 +0000 by\u00a0m.petersen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Bb 9.1 April 2014 Lurking among the numerous improvements in the new version of Blackboard\u00a0(Bb 9.1 April 2014)\u00a0is a&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-5701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701","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=5701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}