Differences between Discussion Boards, Blogs and Wikis

http://www.adelaide.edu.au/myuni/staff/resources/tutorials/content/Differences_between_Discussion_Boards__Blogs_and_Wikis.html

Differences

Discussion Forums are TOPIC centred. discussions are organised into topics by ‘threads’ anyone in the community can start a thread on a topic of their choosing all participants have an equal voice posts require someone to reply for a discussion to take place you can follow through a thread on a particular topic	Blogs are AUTHOR centred. posts are made by the blog’s author only (may be a group) posts are usually opinion pieces and written in the authors voice readers can add comments to the author’s post organised in reverse chronological order so the most recent posts show on the entry page reflect the authors identity in the tone, look and feel and content	Wikis are CONTENT/DOCUMENT centred. wikis are for group authoring editable website with a complete version history kept aim is to reach a consensus or compromise on the content of the page the focus is the content produced, not the individual authors usually neutral and objective discussion/comment is separated from the wiki content

147 Practical Tips for Teaching Online Groups

http://home.fau.edu/musgrove/web/communication/PRACTICAL%20TIPS%20FOR%20TEACHING%20ONLINE%20GROUPS.pdf

44. Teaching in an online environment should be a team effort. You should be
able to call upon technology specialists, instructional designers, and many
others to help you develop and implement your course.

Q:
Customer was having problems with D2L in Google Chrome. Client was not able to see discussion posts in D2L. However, it seems to be fine in Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox.

Scroll window is small and have to scroll down to see all the posts

A:

This is a known issue with Chrome.

To display the full discussion screen, simply grab the vertical frame divider (click and drag it) and move it a little.  The rest of the screen will sort itself out.

Here’s a short screen recording about this issue which shows the workarounds in action: http://media4.stcloudstate.edu/p43737003/

Thanks,

Greg

Q:
How do I access Report capabilities so that I can see how many students, and which students, entered a particular content topic as well as discussion list?

A (for statistics with discussion list, please scroll down to the bottom):
To view the how many users have visited a topic, please go

Select “Table of Contents”

A:
to access stats for discussion list, please go

locate statistics and press

Q: the instructor does not want the students to see each other D2L discussion entries across groups

A: When creating the groups and after selecting “New Category” look down for a checkbox “Set Up Discussion Areas.”
If the box is not checked, students will be divided into groups, but continue seeing each other posts.
Selecting the areas will constrain the discussion to be seen only within the group.

What’s new for students in D2L v. 10.1?

Please consider the following D2L sessions next week: