1. Discussions and Release Conditions Bill Weber E-Learning Operations

2. Workshop Overview Tell You Show You Involve You

3. Why Discussions? Encouraging Communications between learners – Learning from each other – Higher Learning (Bloom's Taxonomy) Quality Matters – Building an online community of learners

4. Why Release Conditions? Control the flow of information Allow “special access” – Solution to an eCollege problem

5. Discussion Forums (Why?) Discussion Topics need a forum or container Organization Uses – Different Types of Discussions – Different Forums for Different Groups – Multiple Topics for each Content Module

6. Discussion Forums (How-to) Go to the Discussions area Click “New Forum” Give it a title Save it

7. Discussion Topics Click “Save and Add Topic” on the New Forum page – Or click on “New Topic” on the Discussions Page Choose the Forum Give it a title Put the topic in the “Description Box” Save it

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9. Release Conditions (Why?) Control the flow of information Create exceptions for individual students

10. Release Conditions (How-to) Edit item condition is being applied to Click on the “Restrictions” tab Click on “Create and Attach” In the pop-up, choose the type and the details. Click “Create” Save the item

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