This Forum is made up of a collection of individual pages. Unlike a normal web site, though, you can quickly and easily change any page in this Forum, or create your own, right from your web browser!

Because everyone else in your course can do this too, this makes it easy to share information, whether lecture notes, questions and answers, research you've collected, and much more.

Finding your way around

You can navigate between pages like with any other web site, or search for pages containing specific information using the "Find" item in the box on the right. The box also shows which pages in this Forum have recently changed, so you can quickly find the "hot topics" people have been discussing.

Posting A Comment

To post a comment, click on the "Post" button at the top right of each page, or click in the "Post your comments" area at the bottom of each page. Enter your comments and press the "Post" button at the bottom.

Your comments will automatically be added to the end of the page.

Editing Pages

Each page on this Forum has a button at the top right labelled "Edit". Clicking on that button will let you change the contents of the page, adding your own information, fixing up other peoples' mistakes, and so on.

You don't need to know anything fancy to edit pages - just start typing! There's some examples at the bottom of the editing form showing you how you can type in things like web pages addresses and have them show up as links.

To create your own pages (rather than changing an existing one), type the name for your new page into the "Start New Page" area and hit "Create".

There's more help about editing on the Editing Hints page.

Group Projects

Not only does each course have this main Forum where everyone in the course can share information, but you can also have separate Forums for smaller group projects or any other uses. This lets you work but keep things separate from the main Forum. Click the "Projects" link at the bottom of each page to find the list of projects, or create new ones.

Posted at Dec 11/2003 06:32 AM:
[Russell]: There doesn't seem to be a user manual - is it really that easy?

Posted at Dec 11/2003 06:52 AM:
[Denis]: It is that easy, but there is a user manual too.. see http://www.courseforum.com/cf/cfuserguide.pdf

Posted at Jul 05/2005 10:19PM:
saqib