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Welcome to the NWUPC Discussion Board! This discussion area is a place to network, exchange ideas, get advice, and interact with people just like you, who share a passion for procurement in the HE sector. Please take a moment to go over the house rules:

• We encourage an open dialogue, but require that participants remain courteous and respectful at all times.
• Everyone is essential in an online community. Visit often, participate, and encourage others to do the same. You have answers that others are seeking and they are just as capable of helping you.
• Know your audience. This forum is an educational tool, used to connect NWUPC Members with similar interests and to expand our knowledge base. Just as you would in any educational environment, refrain from posting pictures or comments with inappropriate content.
• This community is meant to be a positive experience for anyone who chooses to participate. Feel free to post helpful and relevant advice or suggestions, but do not be abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or discriminatory.
• Information posted on the main website is available for all to see. We take great care not to post private category group information which includes documents such as User Guides, price lists if applicable, framework rankings/scoring from tender and desktop calculators.
• No commercial messages or advertisements are permitted.
• Listen, then react. Before responding to a post, read all comments to be sure duplicate information isn’t submitted. Be as concise as possible and stay on topic. This is a searchable knowledge base, so carefully word the subject line of all messages so that your posts can be easily located by others looking for similar resources.
• Do not post any defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials. Do not engage in behaviour that constitutes discrimination or harassment in any way. Messages should not be posted if they encourage or facilitate members to engage in unlawful conduct of any sort.

1. Viewing and Navigating Topics
Each category group, has its own dedicated forum space. You’ll see a list of discussion topics (threads) already started. Click on any topic to read the full conversation. Padlocks indicate you do not access to this group. Contact us at admin@nwupc.ac.uk for information on how to access.

2. Adding your own topic.
Scroll to the bottom of the discussion group page and you will find Create New Topic in “Laboratory” – here you can start your own topics for the group. Please make the title relevant to the subject matter for people to find and reply.

3. Replying to a Topic
To contribute to a discussion, go into that specific chat, scroll to the bottom of the topic and enter your message in the reply box. You can also use the “Reply” button beneath any individual comment if you want to respond directly to a specific post. Your reply will be threaded accordingly.

4. Subscribing to a Topic
To stay up to date, you can subscribe to individual topics or entire forums. Click the “Subscribe” button, found near the top of the page attached to the initial question. You’ll then receive email notifications when new replies are posted, so you don’t miss any important updates or contributions.

5. Favourite
Similar to a bookmark, if a chat has important information and you would like to go back to it you can save a chat as a favourite and access it via your account at a later date.

Questions may be addressed by contacting admin@nwupc.ac.uk.