BlackBoard Question of the Week

Q. In my class, we students are creating threads in order to answer the questions posed by the instructor in other documents.  Yet, when I have tried to save a post so that I can review it later before submitting, it does not allow me to do so — when I hit save, the work simply disappears and I don’t know where to retrieve it.  Can you help?

A. You should see your saved draft thread in the forum in which you were working when you added the thread;”draft” will appear as part of the thread name, and “Draft” will also appear to the right of the thread, under the Status heading. If you do not see your draft, check the Display box under the list of threads — if it does not say ”Show All,” click the dropdown arrow and select “Show All.” Nobody but you will see the thread until you submit it.

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Q. I’m having trouble copying a forum from last year’s course into this year’s.  There is a copy button, but the only location I can copy to is within the Discussion Board in the same course (from last year).  Is there a simple way to copy the forum from last year’s course into this year’s? 

 A. You can copy a discussion board from one course to another by selecting Course Copy from Course Options in the control panel. Choose “Copy Course materials into an existing Course.” Browse for the course to copy to, scroll down under “Select Course Materials” and select Discussion Board, then Submit.