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Create Course Tools Most tools can be created using one of two approaches:
In this workshop session you will build and populate four tools. You will build the discussion board and blog from the Add Interactive Tool menu; then create a wiki and journal using the control panel, and we will lthen ink to them in the course menu. Create a Discussion Board A discussion forum is made up of threads. You must create the forum before students can access and post to it. You can add descriptive and explanatory content to a forum to guide student posts, replies, and comments. A thread can be a question posed by you, a student's response to a forum topic, or a new question raised by a student related to the forum in question. To add a discussion forum to a content area: Here, we will create a new forum; when you select the Create New Forum button, you will be prompted to fill out standard forum information and to apply settings:  There are a lot of settings you can use in the discussion forum. Here's a detailed explanation of each one.  Forum Settings |