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Discussion Board vs. Forum

Except for some additional and/or different settings options, the Discussion Board in Blackboard and Forums in NYU Classes are very similar. Within NYU Classes, students’ contributions to discussions can be assigned a point value and sent to the Gradebook.

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Note: Instructors who want to hold onto student responses in particular courses should download archives of those discussions from Blackboard.  They can then download software known as “bFree: Blackboard Content Extractor,” which can extract Forums and posts found in the Discussion Board. bFree is also useful to extract other forms of content found in Blackboard.

Tip: Students cannot use the Forums tool if you set up Forums without adding any topics. By default students can only post threads in Topics.

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Content written in Blackboard Discussion Boards does not move into NYU Classes.

  • NYU Classes has its own discussion board — but instructors will need to add new Forums.

 

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