WebBoard
Description
WebBoard is used to facilitate threaded discussions. Password protected boards
are created where users can create messages with attachments and can have postings
to the board e-mailed to them. Live chat sessions and whiteboard features can
also be activated.
Key Advantages
For instructors:
- Allows you to record students’ interactions as they brainstorm ideas for a group project, review each other’s individual efforts or work collaboratively to produce a group-authored document. Transcripts can be posted to the Web or e-mailed and reviewed at a later date
- Allows you to efficiently manage and coordinate administrative tasks, freeing up classroom time for more teaching and learning activities
For students:
- Allows students access to course materials anytime, anywhere
- Allows collaboration with other students
- Allows students to engage in course related activities in a single environment
- Teaches students new technology skills
Key Features
- Provides ‘recorded’ detailed information about which students read and commented on what material
- Conversations are not limited by space and time. Talkative students cannot dominate and quiet students can participate at their own comfort level
- Moderate, prompt, edit or even rearrange discussions, post assignments and evaluate student’s participation in class
Getting Started
Determine if your WebBoard is closed (private) or open. If it is
a closed board, new users will not be able to login and you will have
to use the "Add Users" wizard to add users manually. Determine
a name for your board, for example, "Cooking Board." The name
will be displayed on the welcome page and in the e-mail welcome message.
Decide on a unique alias for this board, for example, cooking.
The URL would appear as http://webboard.ltc.arizona.edu/~cooking. You
can also decide what Web address to use when users sign off the board.
They can be sent to your home page, for example.
To request a WebBoard account, complete a Service Request Form.
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What People Are Saying
- “It makes a great collaborative tool
and all they have to do is coordinate the time, which is a lot easier than
coordinating both time and space in a traditional group project environment.”
- Quick Start
- Request a WebBoard
- FAQs
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Resources
- Detailed help documents and user guides
