Within a conference, many different forums can be created. These forums can be shared between other conferences. This facilitates interaction and increases the effectiveness of on-line communication. Advanced Searching Users can search an individual forum for messages containing a word or phrase and sort postings by author, date, or keyword. Custom User Preferences Individual users can customize their view of a conference by filtering messages or displaying messages by the date they were posted.
Users can also make font size and color changes.
Embedded HTML Users can add HTML to their messages to emphasize remarks or add links and graphics. Email notification options Users can elect to receive notification by email of any new messages posted to a specific thread. In addition, when composing a new message, end users can choose to send the message to everyone who has posted a message in the current thread. Frame-based viewing options Administrators can enable, and end users can choose to view conferences using frames. Several other frames options are available to end users for customizing their conference interface.