Please click on an article below for information regarding forums/discussions in Bridges: How do I create a new discussion? How do I create a new topic? How do I moderate a topic? How do I grade discussion forums? How do I view statistics about student content in the statistics and grading tab? For further assistance, please email id@rwu.edu

Please follow the instructions below to create group discussions using to Discussions Tool: 1. Click on "new topic" 2. Fill out the topic settings. 3. When you get to “Automatically Create Topics” in “settings”, select the radio button for “Automatically create multiple topics for groups". 4. Select your groups: 5. Select “save” 6. View your discussions that you’ve created. Permissions will be set such that only members of that group can participate. Only discussions designated to that group will show up on the students’ Bridges pages. 7. Student View For further assistance, please email id@rwu.edu

Please click on the link below for instructions on how to create a private journal: For further assistance, please email id@rwu.edu

When copying one course into another, Forums will always come over in Draft mode. In order for students to see the discussions, the forums need to be taken out of draft form and published. 1. Select Forum Settings next to the Forum that is in Draft mode. 2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and select Save. This will take the forum out of draft mode and students will be able to see the discussion. For further assistance, please email id@rwu.edu

Please click on an article below for information regarding the conversations tool: Conversations tool overview: How do I create a new discussion/question? How do I answer a question in conversations? What are conversations settings? How do I add custom tags for conversations? How do I set up community guidelines? For further assistance, please email id@rwu.edu