Forum Frustrations?
Does your online course have Forums? If so, you’ll want to read on. Nothing is more aggravating than spending a long time carefully crafting every word of your Forum post, only to hit the submit button and have it all disappear! Before you start cursing Moodle, however, it might just be your browser that is causing the difficulty. Sometimes it seems that Internet Explorer just doesn’t want to play nice with Moodle and it has timed out while you’re perfecting your submission. :( There are all sorts of technical reasons for that - I’m sure. Bottom line is, sometimes you’re better off trying a new browser (Firefox, Chrome, and Safari are all options). To play it super safe, however, you are probably wise to create your Forum post in Word or Notepad and save it as you go along. When it is done, you can then copy it into the Forum without fear. If something should go wrong - you still have it saved elsewhere so you can post it again.
Good luck!
January 27th, 2010 at 9:26 am
Nice post! Short, sweet, & informative. and I learned something! I hadn’t realized that Safari made a version for Windows. Thanks