ABA Law Student Division

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ABA Law Student Division

• Webboard
• Instructions/Tour
• http//discussions.abanet.org/ababoards/board/inde
  x.cfm?forumid942

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All visitors will be required to sign-in at MyABA
in order to obtain access to the webboard
Important Note You must be an ABA member to gain
access to any Law Student Division Webboard.
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Discussion Board Homepage
Open Access Boards
Specialty Group Boards A password is required to
access
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Specialty Group Boards

• ABA staff will provide you with the access
  password for the appropriate group upon
  confirmation of your position in that group.
• Specialty Group Boards include
• LSD Board of Governors
• LSD Entity Liaisons
• Circuit Lt. Governors
• SBA Presidents (who are ABA members)
• ABA Representatives (who are ABA members)

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Instructions for Boards that are password
protected
Specialty Group Boards - You will receive the
access password for the appropriate group from
the ABA upon confirmation of your position in
that special group.
Insert the access code (password) provided to you
by the Division staff (codes are case sensitive)
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Board Search Page
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Profile Page (top half)
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Profile Page (bottom half)
Category is equivalent to a discussion ie SBA
Discussion Board
You will receive an email each time a message is
posted
You will receive an email once a day when
messages are posted
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View of the Chat Screen
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View of the Calendar
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View of the Topic Index within a Discussion Board
Click here to add a new topic
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Creating a new topic is as easy as writing an
email
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When youve submitted your topic and comment, it
will appear in the topic index for other to read
and respond to
Click here to see all the messages posted to this
topic
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This is a listing of all messages posted to this
topic
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Topic Tools
You can reply or extract a portion of the message
as a quote and respond to only that portion if
you chose
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This is a sample of the Text Box that will appear
when you select the quote button (see slide 13).
This would be used if you wish to use part of
someone elses message in your response.
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This is a sample of the Text Box that will appear
when you select the reply button (see slide 13)