“Q&A” Forum Type (students)

Not to be confused with a Q & A forum, this forum type prevents students from seeing their peer’s posts prior to making their own post. The instructor must make the initial posts and students can only reply to the instructor. After replying to the instructor, students will be able to see other posts made by their peers and respond to them.

Using this forum type

1. Click on the link to the forum from the main course page.

2. If the page looks like this, your instructor has not posted the prompt to the forum yet.

Q&A forum no initial post message

3. Once your instructor has posted the prompt you will see the below. Click the name of the post under the “Discussion” section to reply.

Add a new question

4. Click the “Reply” option. This will take you to the reply screen.

Reply to Q&A prompt

5. On the reply screen, you are required to enter a subject and message. You can also uncheck the “Discussion subscription” option if you prefer not to be notified every time someone posts in this discussion. You can also add files by either dragging them and dropping them into the “Attachment” section or clicking the Add icon in the upper left of the box. Click “Post to forum” once finished.
Reply screen

5. After you have replied, you should be able to see your post and the posts of others by clicking again on the discussion link or the replies link.

Reply is visible

6. If you still have the warning appearing, either you or the person whose post you can’t see likely posted in the last 30 minutes and has not exceeded their editing time. Once the 30 minute editing time has passed, you will be able to see the posts.