DISCUSSION
BOARDS [There will be NO Discussion Boards for my Fall 2007 World Civilization Class: Students please ignore all of the instructions below]

Any Announcements and Power Point Slides for Lectures will be posted each week on our course's UBLearns/Blackboard Site.

To Access our UBLearns Course site:

1. Go to https://ublearns.buffalo.edu/index.html [Alternatively, you can log-in to your MyUB account and follow the links to UBLearns/Blackboard]
2. Login onto your UBLearns account.
3. Click on the link to our UGC111R course (make certain that you have clicked the lecture course number, not the number for your individual recitation section).
4. Announcements (and links to them) will be displayed on the first page you encounter.
5. For lectures, click on the "Lectures" link. This should be on the left-hand column.
6. Look for the appropriate folder and file for the Week and/or specific Lecture you wish to open and review. Please note that power point files for lectures will be posted for Weeks 2 through 15 AFTER the lecture presentation in class. These power-point presentations ONLY contain the materials shown in class: they DO NOT contain the extensive additional comments and analysis I shall provide in my lectures. Thus, it is essential that you first attend and listen carefully to all of my lectures.

Fall 207 Students: Please IGNORE all information and instructions found BELOW on this Page!!!

These discussion boards are for individual recitation sections. To get to them click on the link for your section (see below) and and follow the directions for submitting your response paper (also below). From here you can exchange files, send e-mail, enter a virtual chat, and post to the discussion board for your recitation group.

To submit your response paper, take the following steps [Ignore for Fall 2007]:

        (1) After clicking on the link [see below] for your recitation section, login on the ublearns/Blackboard website. Then click on "Courses" tab at the top of the page.
        (2) click on "UGC111D: World Civilization"
        (3) click on "Groups" tab.
        (4) click on YOUR recitation section (for example, D1)
        (5) click on "Group Discussion Board"
        (6) click on that week's forum (e.g., "Week 2, Response Paper 1: Gilgamesh")
        (7) click on "add new thread" button
        (8) fill out "subject" box [for example, "response paper 1"]
        (9) Paste the text of your response paper into the "Message" box. You can do this by: 
                (a) opening the file containing your response paper
                (b) block (i.e., highlight and mark) the entire text
                (c) find and click on "edit" on your toolbar, then click on "copy"
                (d) go back to the "message" box and position your cursor at the top left
                (e) go to "edit" on your web browser's toolbar and click on "Paste"
                (f) your response paper should now appear in the "message" box
        (11) click "submit" button
        (12) THAT'S IT, YOU'RE DONE!
 

To read another student's response paper and submit a comment:

        (1) follow steps 1 through 6 above
        (2) click on name of student to view his/her message (i.e., response paper)
        (3) the student's response paper will now appear on your screen
        (4) after reading it, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the "reply" button
        (5) in the "message" box, add your comment
        (6) click the "submit" button
        (7) THAT’S IT, YOU’RE DONE-to read another and to send another comment, 
            repeat above steps