A Message Board allows you to facilitate communications online within your school. Message Boards are only accessable if you can log into the Spike@School Construction Zone (or if you're using a Learning Cave). You can optionally make the contents of your Message Board publicly viewable on your website but the general public won't be able to add messages.
You add a Message Board just like you add any other item to Spike@School.
Once your Message Board is made you can click on it and start adding Threads to it. A Thread is basically a master message. It's the start of a conversation on a particular topic. Other users can then click on the Thread and add their replies to that particular thread. This helps keep the conversations in order. Other users can also add Threads. Here's what it looks like when we add a Thread:
Here's the view of a Thread once a few people have replied to it:
We use a Message Board inside each of our Learning Caves and Staff Zones.
