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WebCT
Faculty Tip Sheets
Manage Discussion Messages
To move a message to a different topic:
- Go to the Discussion Board. Click Designer Options. The Discussions screen appears.
- From the Discussions table, under Topic, click the topic name. The Discussion Messages screen appears.
- The messages for the topic appear in the table under the heading Subject. Locate the message you want to move.
- To view only unread messages, click Unread; to view all messages, click All.
- To view messages in chronological order, click Unthreaded; to view messages as a thread, click Threaded. Note: Threading the messages groups all the reply messages together under each subject.
- To view a thread of messages, click the icon next to the thread.
- Select each message you want to move to a different topic. To select all of the messages displayed, select Subject.
- Click Designer message options.
- From the Move to drop-down list, select the new topic for the message(s).
- Click Go. The screen refreshes and each selected message is moved to the new topic.
To delete selected messages:
- Go to the Discussion Board. Click Designer Options. The Discussions screen appears.
- From the Discussions table, click the topic name. The Discussion Messages screen appears.
- The messages for the topic appear in the table under the heading, Subject. Locate the message you want to delete:
- To view all messages, click All; to view only unread messages, click Unread.
- To view messages in chronological order, click Unthreaded; to view messages as a thread, click Threaded. Note: Threading the messages groups all the reply messages together under each subject.
- To view a thread of messages, click the icon next to the thread.
- Select each message you want to delete.
- Click Designer message options.
- Click Delete. A warning message appears.
- Click OK. The screen refreshes and each selected message is deleted.
To delete all messages from a topic:
- Go to the Discussion Board. Click Designer Options. The Discussions screen appears.
- From the Discussions table, select each topic that contains the messages you want to delete.
- Under Options, click Delete messages. A warning message appears.
- Click OK. All messages in the selected topic(s) are deleted.
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