Matt Litchford

Forums - Viewing Word Counts in Forum Posts

by Matt Litchford - Wednesday, July 9, 2025, 9:57 AM
 

Your instructor may require a certain number of words in your discussion forums. Follow this tutorial to figure out how many words are in your post.

Viewing Word Counts in Forum Posts
Step 1 When you first create click on the forum title it will take you to the Forum Assignment. Click on Add Discussion Topic.

Add Discussion topic button

Step 2
On the resulting screen, type in your post. Once you've finished, select Tools drop-down and Word Count.  

Word Count from Tools drop down

Step 3 A pop up window will displace your word count, characters with spaces, and characters without spaces.

word count


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