Discussion Board
The Discussion Board allows you to post assignments in a way that can make them available to your classmates and/or instructor, so they can read and reply to your assignments and vice versa. Instructors use the online Discussion Board as a way to approximate the kinds of discussion that happen in an on-campus classroom. Most often, your instructor will create the forums onto which you post your assignments. You will post your assignments as threads (as in "threads of discussion") and/or as replies to others' threads, as indicated by your instructor.
To read a thread
1. From within a specific forum, click the title of any individual thread to read its contents.
2. To read all of the threads
in a forum, click the Expand All icon, then the Show Options tab at the
top right of the screen. 
3. In the Options panel, click the Select All icon, followed by the Collect icon. This collects all
the threads and replies into a single page that you can read or print. (If
you wish to read only the threads but not the postings, click the Collapse
All icon to hide the replies.) 
4. To read an attachment within a thread, click the link following the word Attachment: in the posting information at the very top of the thread.
To reply to a thread
1. Open the thread to which you wish to reply, read it, then click the Reply icon at the bottom right. Type your reply and click Submit.
To post a new thread
2. In a discussion forum, click the Add New Thread icon at the top left. 
3. Fill in the subject line, then either type your message or copy-and-paste it from your word processing program.
4. Click Preview if you want to preview your posting first, or simply click Submit to post it.
To post an attachment
1. Follow steps 1-2 above to post a new thread. At the bottom of the screen, click Browse at the end of the Attachment line.
2. Using the folder hierarchy, locate the desired file to be attached and click Open. You’ll see the file path appear in the Attachments line.
3. Click Preview or click Submit to post.
