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UIC User's Guide: WebBoard Version 3.5 This document is also available in print-ready format.
1. Introduction WebBoard is a conferencing system that can be accessed over the Internet by any computer, using a Web-browser. At UIC, WebBoard is used for conferences and for conducting classes over the Web. Every course is run on a virtual board enabling students and instructors to interact as a group privately. Access is restricted to registered users of that particular course. Every board can have many conferences running concurrently and the instructor maintains the access rights of students to conferences. The instructor of a course is the manager of that conference board. As a user, you can post new topics, reply to messages within a topic, and also reply privately to the sender of a message via normal email. WebBoard also has a live chat feature. This document provides a brief introduction to the basics of WebBoard 3.5 (updated documentation for version 4.1 is forthcoming). More detailed information about any aspect of WebBoard can be found in the online help (see Section IV). |