Four Updates to the Discussion Forum

December 01, 2014 | 1 Minute Read

The discussion forum tool has been getting quite a bit of attention this fall. We've just released a number of new features for the discussion forum, all of which are available right now in your CoursePlus sites:

1. A discussion forum topic can now be marked as "answered." Only the person who originally posted the topic or faculty or TAs can mark the question as answered. A topic can have more than one reply marked as the correct answer.
2. If a course faculty or TA has responded to a topic, there is now an icon on the main discussion forum page which indicates this.
3. Posting dates less than five days old are displayed in relative format. If a post was created 5 minutes ago, the date/time of the post reads "5 minutes ago." If a post was created 2 days ago, the date/time of the post reads "2 days ago." Posts older than 5 days show the date and time on which the post was created. This display of dates in relative format can be turned off in the admin section of each discussion forum.
4. You can now search for posts marked as "Important."

Finally, students outside of the US now have the name of their country properly displayed in discussion forum posts. Hooray!