How to Create a Discussion Board
These instructions explain how to create a discussion board in your personal space,
called My Site. The same steps can be applied to your MyBCC Course Sites, or other
type of employee portal site.
You may choose to have your discussion board listed in the Community Forums menu in
MyBCC by sending the URL of your discussion to webmaster@bcc.ctc.edu. Review rules
and etiquette for MyBCC Community Forums.
Steps
1) From the top site menu, click on
“Documents and Lists.” (See
illustration 1 which shows the
menu as seen in your personal
space, My Site.)
Illustration 1 – Step 1: Click on Documents and Lists
from the top file menu.
2) Click “Create”
(See illustration 2).
Illustration 2 - Step 2: Click “Create”
3) Scroll down to the option
labeled, “Discussion Board” and
select it. (See illustration 3)
Illustration 3 - Step 3: Select “Discussion Board”
4) Give your discussion list a short,
concise name and description.
(See example in illustration 4.)
5) Under the Navigation options,
determine if you want to display
this discussion on the Quick
Launch bar (the side navigation
menu on your site’s home page.)
The default setting is set to yes. If
you wish to turn this off, click “No.”
(See illustration 4.)
Illustration 4 – Step 4-6: Naming your discussion
6) Finish creating your discussion board by selecting “Create”
Give users access to contribute to discussion board
7) Select “Modify settings & columns”
under the Actions heading area on
the left menu of your discussion
board. (See illustration 5.)
Note: As the administrator of your site, you
automatically inherit contributor rights to all
libraries, discussion boards, or lists. Also, any
user you’ve given Web Designer and Contributor
access to at your Site level privileges will also
possess these rights. Steps 8-13 are only
required if your site members possess Reader
group privileges throughout the rest of your site.
Illustration 5 - Step 7: Modify Columns & Settings
8) Under General Settings, select
“Change permissions for this
discussion board.”
(See illustration 6).
Tip: From this same menu page, you may also
change the title and description of your
discussion, add columns, change views or
delete your discussion board.
9) There are two methods for setting
up permissions.
Illustration 6 - Step 8: Change permissions
a. Modify (redefine) Reader group privileges. (To use this option, you must
already have users established at your site’s “top level” that have Reader
privileges. This method is preferred for MyBCC Course Sites or your
personal space, My Site.)
b. Add Users or Groups with Contributor privileges.
Choose either Step 9A or 9B
9A) Modifying Reader group Privileges (preferred for MyBCC Course Sites)
1) Select the box to the left of the “Reader level” (See illustration 7) under the heading,
“Site Groups.”
2) Click on “Edit Permissions of Selected Users.”
3) Change Reader permissions to “View, insert, edit, delete items.”
4) Press “OK.”
5) Skip steps 10-13 and continue on to Step 14.
9B) Add Users or Groups with Contributor privileges
1) Click “Add Users”
2) Type the group or individual
username in the “Users” field.
 For all students, use:
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academic\mybccstudents
For all BCC employees, use:
bcc_srv1\allbccofficial
For students in your class
site, use:
academic\2010A564 (Find
your class’ group number by
looking at the first part of
your URL – this is an 8
character number that begins
with your class item #.)
For adding individual
users,use:
Employee users:
username@bcc.ctc.edu or
bcc_srv1\username
Student users:
username@student.bcc.ctc.e
du or academic\username
Illustration 7 - Step 9B: Add Users or Groups
Illustration 8 - Step 9B: Add Users or Groups
Note: If adding more than one group or individual at a time, separate each with a semicolon (no spaces).
Also be careful not to add extra spaces at the end of the line. Only BCC network accounts may be used.
Some users may select users using the “Address Book” button (similar to choosing user names when
composing an e-mail.) This feature is only available if you are logged in to the BCC Network, you are using
a machine with Outlook installed, and you are using a PC and Internet Explorer.
3) Choose permissions – for basic rights, you’ll want to choose the second bullet “View,
insert, edit, delete items.” (See illustration 8.)
4) Click “Next” to continue.
5) Confirm that the system has identified the correct users or groups you intended to
invite. Check the e-mail, user name and display name in the Confirm Users area. If
these do not look
right to you, click the
“Back button” on the
browser and change
the information.
When giving rights to
individual users, you
have the option to
send the user an email notification with
Illustration 9 - Step 9B: Add users or groups.
the URL of the
discussion board. Deselect this if
you do not wish to notify this user
at this time. You can e-mail them
later with the URL when you are
ready to invite them to the site. to
let them know that you have
granted them access. (See
illustration 9)
6) Press “Finish” at the bottom of this
page.
Illustration 10 - Step 13: Confirm you have added users.
10) Verify the group name or user
name is now listed in your
Discussion Board permissions list. (See
illustration 10).
11) Click on “Home” or “Documents & Lists” (from
your site menu across top of the page.)
12) Locate the link to the Discussion Board and click
on it. Tips:
a. From home page, locate link displayed on
the Quick Launch Bar.
Illustration 11 - Step 11: Click
b. From Documents & Lists, locate link
on your discussion board from
under Discussion Boards menu.
the Quick Launch bar.
c. From home page (in “My Site”), locate link
on left menu under “My Lists.” (See illustration 11.)
13) Highlight and copy the URL of the discussion board from your Internet Browser’s
address line. Paste this URL into an e-mail directed to webmaster@bcc.ctc.edu if
you wish to have your discussion listed in Community Forums at
https://go.mybcc.net/forums/.
Visit http://mybcc.net/training for other training topics and handouts.