By organizing assignments in the forums, you can ensure that you attach the content and reviews to the assignments. For example, you may wish to have students write essays about readings. If you do so, you can open up a forum in which you describe the paper, include expectations, and even incorporate a rubric. You can open threads for students to ask questions, and you can put a link to the Dropbox so that they can, with a single click, submit their assignments.
One advantage of using forum-based assignments is that if you have any changes, you can be assured that most of your students will see the changes because they will occur in the same location that everyone is visiting. It's a "one-stop shopping" point for assignments. ...
