How to Use the Forum

Obtaining a Password 

Please contact Dr. Joseph S. Freedman (jfreedm@yahoo.com) or Carolyn Starkey (cstarkey@alasu.edu) in order to obtain the password needed in order to enter the forum

Using the Discussion Forum

  1. You do not need to register for the Forum in order to browse its categories, read information contained therein, or to "cut and paste" information to a word processing or other document outside of this Forum.
     

  2. Registration would be only be required if one were to enter information onto this Forum.

 

Two Important Points

1.  Use the "Search" function in order to

  • locate an Internship Log (your own or someone else's)
     
  • locate a given Discussion Topic

OR 

  • To find your folder or any folder, use the sort function on the bottom of the screen.  To sort folders alphabetically by last name, the sort bar should look like the following.  Click the "Go" button when you have selected the sort pattern you want.


2.  Sometimes you may visit a discussion topic and there doesn't seem to be any discussion or less discussion than when you visited the topic last.  This may be due to the often overlooked Show topics boxSee below.  The default setting is "Show topics from last 30 days" So any discussion that is older than 30 days does not appear.   The Show topics box allows you to select the number of topics by date.  In most cases you should select "Show all topics" by clicking on the arrow to the right of the box.  The setting should stay at your last setting, but if you are using a different computer, you will have to reset the show topics box again.