Overview - the discussion workspace

The administration view of the Workspace for the Moderator and Administrator:

The right hand side column with all features enabled shows the following:

• Comments by category - enable filtering comments by subject category (if used when submitting comments).
• Settings - includes: Ability to edit your avatar, edit topic views and displayed name.
  
• Unposted plan topics - those plan topics that have yet to be loaded into the board for discussion.
• Posted Topics - those plan topics which have already been loaded into the board for discussion.
• Participant search - enables you to quickly find a participant.
• Participants - those who have been invited to the board and the last activity.
• Observers - those observers who have been invited to view the board, but they can not interact with the participants or the moderator on the board.
• Moderators - In addition a moderators who are sent an invitation to login to the board can change their password. This will be listed in the Settings section for the moderator the same way it is presented to the participants as shown below.

The main left panel displays the posts and is the main section where the discussion takes place:

• The plan topic - the discussion topic loaded from your board plan.
• View comments - these controls allow a participant and moderator to control how many post are visible at one the board.
• Comment  - this is where a participant or moderator can comment directly on the board plan item.
• Reply - these are the controls which enables a moderator or participant to reply to a participant or moderators comment .
• Like/dislike  - these controls enable participant to like or dislike a comment or reply on a board.

Participant's view

The board workspace for a participant displays the following details.

Right hand column

• Refresh button - used to refresh the workspace view to check out new board activity
• Logout button - to log out of the discussion board.
• Comments by category - to filter comments by category (if this option is activated for your board).
• Settings - includes: Ability to edit your avatar, edit topic views and shows the name or alias (if anonymous option is activated for your board).
  
• Posted Topics - those plan topics which have already been loaded into the board for discussion.
• Participants logged in - shows who is currently active on the board.

The board workspace the participant has a number of options (depending on the options you have enabled for the discussion board):

• View plan topics that have been posted to the board
• Post a comment about the pan topic
• Reply to posts and rate other participants posts
• Upload images, videos and files to a comment
• Add YouTube videos to a comment
• Edit a comment
• Add a subject category to a comment
• Ability to post a private comment in a public discussion for a moderator to view only
• Ability to record a 2 minute video from the discussion board