{"id":1349,"date":"2019-08-12T14:48:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T19:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/de.austincc.edu\/bbsupport\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=1349"},"modified":"2022-01-31T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T16:22:05","slug":"create-a-discussion-thread","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/studentkb-archive\/article\/create-a-discussion-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a Discussion Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Discussion Board allows you to share thoughts and ideas about class materials.<\/p>\n<p>A thread is a series of posts to the same subject.\u00a0 Threads provide an organizational structure within a forum for users to share posts on similar topics.<\/p>\n<p>Follow these steps to create a new thread:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"643\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vNMO-4I7uBI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Click the title of the discussion topic.<\/li>\n<li>Click the\u00a0<strong>Create Thread<\/strong> button.<\/li>\n<li>Enter the\u00a0<strong>Subject<\/strong> of our post.<\/li>\n<li>Enter the content of your message.<\/li>\n<li>To attach files, click\u00a0<strong>Browse My Computer<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<strong>Save Draft<\/strong> to return to the thread later, or\u00a0<strong>Submit\u00a0<\/strong>to post it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><b>Contact Support<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article was created and is maintained by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/austincc.edu\/sts\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Student Technology Services<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you have found an error in this article or if you are in need of technical assistance, please fill out the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1Br_YiF8eo78BK-WgWJoDbftsvZ9PdCRMWAxBmCo_zd0\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Student Technology Services Email Request Form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or contact Student Technology Services at 512-223-4636, Option 8.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Discussion Board allows you to share thoughts and ideas about class materials. A thread is a series of posts to the same subject.\u00a0 Threads provide an organizational structure within a forum for users to share posts on similar topics. Follow these steps to create a new thread: Click the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"ht-kb-category":[41],"ht-kb-tag":[90,42,167],"class_list":["post-1349","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-discussion-board","ht_kb_tag-blackboard","ht_kb_tag-discussions","ht_kb_tag-video"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/studentkb-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/studentkb-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/studentkb-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/studentkb-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/studentkb-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/studentkb-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/studentkb-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/studentkb-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/studentkb-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}