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KULeuvenX: GRAPHx The Great War and Modern Philosophy

Discussion guidelines

    Overview

    This course contains several discussion forums with different purposes. You can find more detailed information about the aim of the discussions and how they are evaluated in the intro module. Only the discussion fora that are connected to a specific module are multilingual. Since the default language of the course is English, the other fora are in English too.

    Please notice that there is a general and technical discussion forum where you can ask general questions and signal technical issues. This forum isn't linked to specific content in the module. 

     Below are guidelines and best practices for productive collaboration and discussion.

    • Participate! It will enhance your learning experience and some discussions may be subject to examination.
    • Be polite! Opinions are good, but please respect others’ opinions as well.
    • Help each other! We encourage you to reply to your peers’ questions and comments.

    Discussion Forum Best Practices

    Here are a couple of helpful hints to using the discussion forum. The staff will monitor all discussions on a daily basis.

    • Posts marked with the label STAFF (in blue) are official staff threads that will appear at the top of discussion categories. These threads may answer some of your questions. 
    • Please search for an answer to your question in the discussion board before posting. It is likely that other students asked the same question already.
    • Actively up-vote other posts, and other people will up-vote yours! The more up-votes your post has, the more likely it is to be seen. Don’t forget to up-vote your own posts!
    • Excellent posts will be made more visible by staff.
    • It is possible to be promoted to community TA. If your posts are valued as excellent, you may be contacted to be a moderator for a part of the forum. 
    • If you are reporting a bug, please post it in the Technical Issues category in the course wide discussion forum.
    • If you want to be sure your questions are posted using the correct category, we advise you to navigate to the relevant parts of the course under Courseware and using the discussion elements inside the course. 

    Helpful tips

    The discussion forum helps improve your ability to search and talk about many different topics throughout the course. Here are some friendly guidelines to help you successfully navigate and interact on the forum:

    • On each page, there is a link at the bottom which says “show discussion.” Clicking on this link will show all the discussion on the forum associated with this particular video or problem.
    • Be very specific about where you need help. Are you stuck on a particular part of the problem? Do you need help understanding a particular concept? What have you tried doing so far?
    • Use a descriptive and specific title to your post. This will attract the attention of other learners having the same issue.
    • Use “netiquette,” or common writing practices for online communication. For example:
      • Avoid TYPING IN ALL CAPS. Some people read this as shouting, even if that is not what you mean to convey.
      • Avoid unnecessary symbols, abbreviated words, texting shorthand, and replacing words with numbers (e.g. Pls don’t rplce wrds w/#s).
      • Avoid repeating letters or characters like this: reeepeeaattingggg chaaracterrrss
      • Avoid excessive punctuation if possible (e.g. !!!!!!!! or ??????)
      • It’s fine to make suggestions, but avoid negative commentary and please do not “flame” anyone.