Blackboard Learn: Compile Discussion Posts
Office of Distance Education & Educational Technology
College of Human Sciences, Iowa State University
March, 2012
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For reading efficiency, you may want to display many discussion post messages at a time. You
might wish to see all the messages in one conversation thread or all the messages in a forum.
Begin by going to the Discussion board. You see the list of forums and how many messages are
in each. Click on a forum link to enter its discussion space.
You may have a single discussion thread in the forum or several threads. Make the subject line
for each post you wish to collect visible on the screen. Click the plus signs to expand the main
threads and branches inside the main threads. A quick way to display all the post titles is to click
the “Expand All” button in the upper right, above the message section.
Please a check mark in the box in front of each post you wish to compile. You can check all the
boxes at once by checking the box at the very top of the column of boxes (above all the posts).
Now click the “Collect” button. You can click Collect button on the top or the bottom of
message list .
IMPORTANT:
Collected
messages are
posted in
chronological
order, which is
NOT the same
order as in the
conversation
threads that
display in
“threaded” view
Threaded view
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