Causing discussion forum activity to show up in the Needs Grading tool in the Blackboard Learn Grade Center. To do this, go to the discussion forum whose activity you wish to show up in Needs Grading and click the action link next to the forum, selecting edit. On the edit forums screen, scroll down to this entry:"Show participants in needs grading status after every so many posts. Check the check box and select the number of posts after which you wish activity to be indicated in Needs Grading, typically each one post. In an extremely active discussion forum, you might not want to be reminded that you have things to grade every time a student makes a single post. You might want to have them have to make two or three or more posts before "tripping" the indication in Needs Grading. But you have that option here. Submit to save the change. Now, if you go to needs grading, in the Grade Center there will be an indication that grading needs to be done for this student in that discussion forum. You can do so by clicking the action link and selecting Grade all Users. You'll be presented with all of the posts for that student. You can proceed to grade them in the normal way. That's all or is to causing discussion forum activity to appear in my grades.