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Subject: Navigating a Discussion

The course template provides several tools to assist you in navigating through discussion responses. You should try out different methods until you find which ones work best for you:

There is one oddity when you use the Collapse Twistie Collapse Twistie and the Expand Twistie Expand Twistie to read the individual documents within the module.
Clicking the Expand Twistie Expand Twistie expands the next level of documents in that area but collapses the previously expanded document group. The series of illustrations below illustrates what happens as you click on one expand twistie at a time. To read documents, you continue to click on the Expand Twistie in order to follow the Discussion Thread. When you reach a document that no longer has an Expand Twistie then you know that there are no more responses in that specific thread. Below is what you would see with Discussion 1 completely collapsed. It can be a bit confusing to see some documents collapse when you click on the Expand Twistie for other documents. Unless the discussion is extremely long, you may find it easiest to simply Expand the entire list.

Image Discussion Indicator..... Expand TwistieDiscussion 1
Totally collapsed discussion

Image Discussion Indicator.....Collapse Twistie Discussion 1
...............Expand TwistieResponse For Discussion 1 (Jane Doe 10/29/2003)
...............Expand TwistieAnother response for discussion 1 (Joe Schmo 10/29/2003)
Discussion expanded to one level

Image Discussion Indicator..... Collapse TwistieDiscussion 1
...............Collapse TwistieResponse For Discussion 1 (Jane Doe 10/29/2003)
....................Collapse TwistieReply to the For Discussion 1 (Joe Schmo 10/29/2003)
....................Collapse TwistieSecond Reply to Response For Discussion 1 (Joe Schmo 10/29/2003)
...............Expand TwistieAnother response for discussion 1 (Joe Schmo 10/29/2003)
First thread expanded, second thread collapsed

Image Discussion Indicator..... Collapse TwistieDiscussion 1
.................Expand TwistieResponse For Discussion 1 (Jane Doe 10/29/2003)
...............Collapse TwistieAnother response for discussion 1 (Joe Schmo 10/29/2003)
....................Collapse TwistieReply to the second original response to Discussion 1 (Jane Doe 10/29/2003)
.........................Collapse TwistieReply to reply immediately above. (Joe Schmo 10/29/2003)
First thread collapsed, second thread expanded

Image Discussion Indicator..... Collapse TwistieDiscussion 1
...............Collapse TwistieResponse For Discussion 1 (Jane Doe 10/29/2003)
....................Collapse TwistieReply to the For Discussion 1 (Joe Schmo 10/29/2003)
....................Collapse TwistieSecond Reply to Response For Discussion 1 (Joe Schmo 10/29/2003)
...............Collapse TwistieAnother response for discussion 1 (Joe Schmo 10/29/2003)
....................Collapse TwistieReply to the second original response to Discussion 1 (Jane Doe 10/29/2003)
.........................Collapse TwistieReply to reply immediately above. (Joe Schmo 10/29/2003)
Totally Expanded Discussion

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