CTJ Online English and CTJ Online Science and Technology use WebBoard software to support online discussions. Each week on the course website, as part of that week's discussion, there is a focus question relating to the activities for that week.

The online discussion and communication with your facilitator is an important component of the program. The discussion is private, password protected and only available to those registered for CTJ Online, your facilitator and other support personnel. What you write will be for your group’s eyes alone.

If you haven't participated in an online discussion before, WebBoard can be overwhelming. It is important to feel confident in using WebBoard so you can concentrate on the conversation rather than how to use the software. Hopefully this overview will do just that.

The overview of WebBoard discussion software consists of a series of short videos with audio. Although the examples are taken from CTJ Online - Science and Technology, it is also applicable CTJ Online - English.

The transcript of the audio is available separately as a pdf file of each video or a pdf file of the complete audio.

Before you begin

Before you begin, consider the reasons for using a discussion board.

Now view the videos

Video index Select a video from the video index

NB. You may find that the video files are too large and therefore too slow to view on a dial-up connection from home. You may prefer to only open the pdf documents from home and view the video files on the school Internet connection.