Step-by-step instructions

To save Discussions, you must either copy-and-paste into Microsoft Word or another word processor, or print posts to a PDF file.

1. In your course, select "Discussions" from the navigation bar. A sample navigation bar is provided below.
   1. Select (click) the Topic you'd wish to archive posts from. An example is shown here.
2. When viewing the topic posts, you can change the view options to allow you to 'print' all posts. Change view to "All Messages" under "Unthreaded"
3. By default, the number of posts viewed at a time is 20. Increase the number of posts to as high as possible -- typically 50.
4. At the top of the list of posts, to the left of the headings is a checkbox. Select it to select all messages on that page. The background of each message title, name, etc will turn green. Then select the 'Print" icon at the top of the page.
5. A window will appear with the text from all posts.
   1. If Adobe Acrobat is installed, you can also select the "Print" button in the window to open the Print settings window for your computer. Select 'Adobe PDF" for the printer.
   2. If you use other PDF software, you should be able to use that software to convert the posts to a PDF.
   3. If you have Microsoft Office XP or higher for Windows, you can also print the document to 'Microsoft Office Document Image Writer" which will save all pages as a multi-page TIFF file.
   4. You can also select (highlight) all text and copy-and-paste into Word or another word processor application.
   5. Contact your campuses support office or Helpdesk for available export options.