ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE TO TWEN - Westlaw

6 Communicating Within Your TWEN
Course
With TWEN, you can communicate with your students in multiple ways including using forums, wiki
pages, and through e-mail.
Using Forums In Your Course
A forum is a virtual environment you can use to conduct in-depth online discussions, elicit responses to
a topic or idea, or distribute course information. The threaded posting areas in forums are designed for
interactive communication.
• You can set up forums for interactive communication between you and your students.
• You can set up forums that are dedicated to students only.
By default, TWEN provides one interactive discussion forum (titled “Discussion”) when you create a
course. To use and modify this default forum, see ”Modifying Forums” on page 84.
Note You can also use forums to post course materials or your syllabus. However, this type of oneway
publishing is best accomplished by using document pages. For more information,
”Adding Content to Your TWEN Course” on page 41.
CREATING A FORUM
1. Click the course name on the My Courses page. The course home page is displayed.
2. Click Forums under Navigation on the left side of the course home page to display the Forums
page.
3. Click the Create Forum button at the top of the page. The Create a new forum page is displayed, as
shown in Figure 6-1.
Figure 6-1. Create a new forum page
4. Type the name of the new forum in the Forum Name text box.
5. Select the Allow Anonymous Postings check box to allow students to post messages without their
names and e-mail addresses.
6. Select the Allow students to post main topics check box to allow students to post main topic
messages.
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