ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE TO TWEN - Westlaw

82 Communicating Within Your TWEN Course
10. Select the Mark citations in the attached file to link to Westlaw check box if you want your
citations in your document to be linked to full text documents on Westlaw.
11. Click Upload File.
12. If anonymous postings are allowed, a check box labeled Post this message anonymously is
displayed. Select this check box if you do not want to display your name and e-mail address with
your posting.
13. Specify when you want students to be able to view the posting. Select one of the three availability
options (e.g., Make the post available now).
Note The scheduling option is available only when posting main topic messages. It is not
available when you are responding to a posting.
14. Select the Send e-mail... check box if you want to send an e-mail message to all course
participants to notify them that a new item has been added to the forum.
Note If you have chosen to delay the display of this item (step 13) and have selected the Send an
e-mail... check box, the notification e-mail message is not sent until the item is displayed for
students.
15. Click the Preview Topic button to view your posting before submitting it. (On the Preview page, you
can click the Edit button to return to the Post Message page and edit your posting.)
16. Click Post Topic to add your posting to the discussion list.
RESPONDING TO A POSTING
To respond to a main topic posting, you must be viewing the posting, as displayed in Figure 6-5. Follow
the steps below.
Figure 6-5. View of a posting
1. Click Reply. You can follow the same steps as required for posting a main topic message. For more
information, see ”Posting Messages in Forums” on page 80.
2. You can quote the original post in your response by clicking Quote in the post. The text in the
original post is copied into your reply, as displayed in Figure 6-6 on page 83. You can edit the
quoted text if you want to quote only a portion of the original post.