How can I quickly find new posts in busy discussion forums?
As students post to forums it can be a challenge to quickly find and read new posts you have not yet read. eCollege’s only indicator of whether a message is read or unread is the envelope icon to its left. A closed, yellow envelope is unread and an open, white envelope is read. This isn’t much of a visual indicator, so here’s a quick tip for finding and opening only new posts: • Once you have entered the forum, click the sort by: “unread” link just above and to the right of the first post in the forum. This will sort the posts so only those marked as unread will be listed above all others. • Now, click on each unread post (with a closed envelope icon to its left- but do not click on the envelope icons)- as you click each unread post, the post will seem to have disappeared, but rest assured it has only been opened for you lower on the page. • After you have clicked all of the unread posts, click on the sort by: “response” link just above the first post in the forum. • You will now see t
