2. Enter your e-mail address:

3. Enter your password:

4. Enter your Web username:

5a. Enter an abbreviation for your course:
This abbreviation should be short. It should include only numbers and/or lowercase letters, and no spaces. You'll use the same abbreviation for all Critical Tools for this course.
(e.g., 306, 316kbrit, 391m, or history101)

5b.Select the academic term in which your course is being taught:
fall summer spring winter other

7. Enter a one-word abbreviation for the title you entered in field 6:
This name will be used in the address of the Discussion Forum. It will not appear on the page.
(e.g., unit1 or enlightenment)

Optional Attributes for Your Discussion Forum:

• If this is the first Discussion Forum you've created, consider the following options.
• If you do not want to use these options and are ready to submit the form, jump to the Submit button.

8. Enter a prompt for the Discussion Forum:
The prompt you provide might suggest ways for your students to use the Forum, tips about the kinds of discussion you'd like to see, or topics that might be of interest.

9. Enter the complete URL for your course home page:
If you provide the URL, your students will be able to link to your course home page from the bottom of the Discussion Forum.
(e.g., http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~gsiesing/314/index.html)

Color Attributes for Your Discussion Forum:

10a. Enter a background image: Enter the URL for the background image you'd like to use. (e.g., http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~criticaltools/backgrounds/paper.gif) 10b. Enter a background color: other white black light grey medium grey dark grey light orange dark orange bright red blood red maroon beige pale yellow bright yellow gold turquoise light blue medium blue royal blue dark blue light green bright green medium green dark green light purple medium purple dark purple If "other," choose a background color code using the standard 6-digit convention. (e.g., white =ffffff or black=000000) 11a. Select a text color: other black white light grey medium grey dark grey light orange dark orange bright red blood red maroon beige pale yellow bright yellow gold turquoise light blue medium blue royal blue dark blue light green bright green medium green dark green light purple medium purple dark purple If "other," choose a text color code using the standard 6-digit convention. (e.g., white =ffffff or black=000000) 11b. Select a color for unvisited links: other royal blue black white light grey medium grey dark grey light orange dark orange bright red blood red maroon beige pale yellow bright yellow gold turquoise light blue medium blue dark blue light green bright green medium green dark green light purple medium purple dark purple If "other," choose a color code for unvisited links using the standard 6-digit convention. (e.g., white =ffffff or black=000000) 11c. Select a color for visited links: other dark purple black white light grey medium grey dark grey light orange dark orange bright red blood red maroon beige pale yellow bright yellow gold turquoise light blue medium blue royal blue dark blue light green bright green medium green dark green light purple medium purple If "other," choose a color code for visited links using the standard 6-digit convention. (e.g., white =ffffff or black=000000) 11d. Select a color for active links: other bright red black white light grey medium grey dark grey light orange dark orange blood red maroon beige pale yellow bright yellow gold turquoise light blue medium blue royal blue dark blue light green bright green medium green dark green light purple medium purple dark purple If "other," choose a color code for active links using the standard 6-digit convention. (e.g., white =ffffff or black=000000) 12. Select a group of fonts in which to display your page: Skia, Trebuchet MS, Charcoal, Palatino Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif Garamond, Book Antiqua, Palatino Century Gothic, Skia, Tahoma, Verdana Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, Techno, Textile Andale Mono, Kino MT, Courier, Geneva Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif other If "other," list your font choices in order of preference, separated by commas.

13. If you're finished filling out the form, click the Submit Form button: