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Newsgroup Naming Conventions

Collabra discussion groups are widely used across Monash for teaching and learning purposes, administrative purposes, committee proceedings and social activities. Due to the varied uses of collabra discussion groups, the following naming convention has been implemented.

Class Newsgroups

Discussion groups relating to formal courses of study are identified by the following convention: 

classes.faculty.department.subjectcode.year-teachingperiod

Examples:

Discussion group names would be:

classes.arts.plb.ids2001.01-01
classes.arts.plb.phl1070.01-01

Extensions may be used, such as:

classes.arts.plb.ids2001.01-01.tutorial01
classes.arts.plb.ids2001.01-01.tutorial02
classes.arts.plb.ids2001.01-01.group01
classes.arts.plb.ids2001.01-01.group02
classes.arts.plb.ids2001.00-01.announce
classes.arts.plb.ids2001.00-01.news

Although groups may be created with any desired name, common group uses and names are, for example:

  • groups for announcements (Staff-to-Student information flow) are commonly suffixed 'announce'
  • groups for open discussion amongst staff and students are commonly suffixed 'forum' or 'discussion'
  • groups for discussion relating to material covered in tutorials are commonly suffixed 'tutorial' (sometimes with a group number appended)

Non-teaching discussion groups

The locations of non-teaching discussion groups will be:

faculty.department[.area].groupname