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Web Forums and Discussions

Web-based discussions can be used to provide information to students and to conduct online class discussions. MIT supports the following two types of Web-based discussions.

MIT Forums

MIT Forums is a conferencing service for Web-based (not email-based) discussions. Access is controlled by MIT Web certificates. The host of a Forums conference can be set up to control access to the discussions. To learn more and to view a Demo Conference, go to the page MIT Online Discussion Forums.

Discuss WWW Gateway

Transactions in the Athena Discuss meetings can be read on the Web, in HTML format, through the Discuss WWW Gateway. A Discuss meeting archive can be fed through email. To be readable on the Web, access control within the Discuss meeting must be set to "world-readable". Access to discuss web gateway meetings can be restricted to indviduals or groups using SSL certificates.