What are the Rules and Policies of the Forums?
How do I create a new Topic?
How do I read or reply to a Topic?
How do I send reply to a message in private?

The Forums allow participants in the programme to ask questions and share information about the indicated topics. Discussions must be held with a high level of integrity with respect for others. We have not listed all the Do's and Dont's on using the Bulletin Board as we trust your professional judgement howevre all entries will be monitored on a regular basis and any misuse will be dealt with appropriately.

A new topic is not a reply to an existing message (see Reply for information on how to reply to a message). Click on Post New Topic found at the top of every page of this Discussion Board system to create a new topic. It will ask you for your name, topic and message which are all mandatory. Fill in the windows provided and then hit the button "Post New Topic". If you entered your data correctly, it will tell you on screen that it was successfully posted. If you forgot a mandatory piece of information, it will tell what is missing and direct you to use your browser back button and correct that window. Make sure you input a valid e-mail address which will allow confidential replies to be sent to you when applicable.

On the Main Forums Page you will see all the current Forums. Click on one of the Forums, once on the selected forum's page you will see the orginator of each of the topics, how many replies there have been to that topic, and the date and time the last message was posted. You can click on the topic and it will bring up the messages for you to read, below the original post will be all the replies for this post if there are any. At the bottom of the page you will see the input windows for making a reply to that topic. Fill in your name, e-mail address and then add your reply below the text in the message window, then hit the button labelled "Post Reply". If you entered your data correctly it will tell you on screen that it was successfully posted. If you forgot a mandatory piece of information it will tell what is missing and direct you to use your browser back button and correct that window. Make sure you input a valid e-mail address which will allow confidential replies to be sent to you when applicable.

You can reply to a message in private only if the e-mail icon () appears next to the date and time of the post. The e-mail icon indicates that it is hot-linked to their e-mail address, which you can then just click the icon and your browser should bring up an e-mail window for you to enter your private message that will not get posted to the Discussion Board.

The no e-mail icon () means the person did not include their e-mail address in their post