THE PERFORMANCE LAB
Bulletin Board
PART TWO
Now that you have registered, go to the BB by clicking
the Bulletin Board button at the bottom of the page.
The main page shows the overall structure of the BB:
Forum There are several major
discussions, called Forums, into which the various users' messages are organized.
The Forums are defined by the BB administrator.
Topic Within each Forum are
one or more Topics. Any registered user can start a Topic.
Post A user's message is called
a Post and unless the user is starting a new Topic, is written in reply to
others' posts within a Topic.
Reading and Posting to the BB
To read the posts in any of the forums, click on the forum
name.
The main forum page will show the topics in that forum, who started the
topic, how many replies have been posted and when the last message
was posted.
To read the posts [messages] within a topic, click on the topic name
To post a reply to one of the messages, click on the "Post
Reply" graphic
in the upper right corner of the page.
To start a new topic, click on the "Post New Topic" graphic in
the upper right corner of the page.
Helpful Hints
There is a directory path graphic in the upper right corner
of the page. You can click on any of the levels to jump back [up] in the
BB structure.
The pulldown menus allow you to view more or fewer topics based on date
and to "hop" to another topic.
The best way to learn how to navigate through the BB is to play with
the various options until they become familiar.
Please feel free to post brief "test" messages for practice. The
BB administrator will delete these test postings from time to time.
To exit the BB and return to the TPL Web site, click the "TPL Home" link
at the bottom of any BB page.