Please consider visiting the following pages:
Student Guide to WebBoard: http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/webboard/documents.html
WebBoard FAQs: http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/webboard/faqs.html

Our WebBoard is located at http://english.asu.edu:8080/~rodrigo.

Most of the following directions are adapted from WebBoard's help pages.

If you already have a WebBoard account with ASU’s English Department, type in your username and password. If you do not have an account, click the “cancel” button. This will take you to page where you can request a new account.

Once you are logged on to WebBoard, your screen should look something like:

The left hand side of the screen lists the different conferences we will use for this course. The right hand side will either display the messages for you to read, the form for you to post and reply in, and/or directions for other functions in WebBoard.

To read a message, first click on the name of the conference you want to read in. You may need to click on the “+” sign to flush out the threads (posts) in the specific conference.

You can then select a specific message by clicking on it. The message will appear in the left hand side of the screen. You should be able to scroll through any messages that respond to the first message.

At the top of each message is a list of options.

Post: When you post to a conference, you are starting a new topic. If you have something to contribute to the general theme of a conference, but it doesn’t relate to an existing topic, you can start a new topic.
Reply: You can post a reply to any message within a topic. For example, if a topic has 10 messages, you can reply to the first message or to the tenth message. Whenever you reply to a message, your new message is indented under that message in the Conferences list to show other readers the thread of the conversation. Replies are displayed chronologically within each topic. You can alert specific users to your message by addressing it to their attention. You can also reply to a posting privately, by sending an email message to the original message poster.
Reply w/Quote: Select Reply/Quote from the menu to include text from the original message.
Email Reply: Rather than post a reply to the whole conference, you may prefer to send a reply only to the individual who posted the message. WebBoard lets you reply privately to the message author by email.
Delete: Once you have posted a message, you can delete it from the conference.
Edit: You can edit messages you have posted. For example, if you want to add or remove information from a message, do so by editing it. Or, if you want to change the topic for a message, editing it is the way to do it.

To post a new message for a conferece, click the conference, and then click "Post."

To reply to a specific message, click "Reply" in the purple option box directly above the specific message.
 

Then: Enter the new topic name in the Topic field. Keep the topic name short.  Type in your message. Note that:  You can include HTML tags for formatting.  On most boards, you can include links to other web pages and images. Note that any links you include must have the full URL, such as http://www.myserver.com/linked.html.  When you complete your message, click Post. WebBoard either posts your message immediately or allows you to preview it (with or without spell checking).

If you would like to play with color and font, go to my Simple HTML Tags page.

• word processing documents
• images
• sound clips
• webpages (for directions on how to make a simple webpage, go to the Webpage Tips page.)

If you want to type in a link, just type in the whole URL (including "http://"). WebBoard will automatically turn it into a link.

To attach a file to your message, follow these steps:

1. Check Attach file on the Post message form.
2. Type in your message and click Post. If you selected Preview/Spell check or Preview, complete the preview and click Post. The Attach a File form opens.

Click the appropriate Category radio button for the file you want to attach. The category you select causes WebBoard to display the corresponding icon next to the file-attachment link in your posting, which gives other users a quick idea of the file type. The categories are as follows:  Application if this is an application.  Audio if this is a sound file.  Document if this is a text file.  Image if this is a graphics file.  Multimedia if this is a multimedia file.  Unknown if you do not know what type of file you are uploading.

4. Enter the name and path to the file in the File to upload field;

Click Browse to select the attachment you want to upload from your computer. A File Upload dialog opens. Navigate through your folders to select the attachment. Click Open to continue or click Cancel to return to the file attachment form. If there is no Browse button, your browser doesn’t support file attachments.

5. Enter the description of the file attachment in the File description field.
6. If you want to attach more files, click Yes for Upload another.
7. Click Upload Now to attach the file to your message. Depending on the size of the file and speed of your connection, this process may take a few minutes. Your message is immediately posted to the conference. The attachment appears as a hyperlink at the end of the message. An icon indicating the file type and the size of the file in kilobytes follows the filename.
8. If you clicked “Upload another,” the Attach a File form appears again. Repeat Steps 3-7 for each file attachment you want to upload.