On the first Content Page of the course, we have a link called Discuss Your Water Inventory:
This link takes the student directly to a forum:
The student could also have arrived at this forum by selecting Course Discussions from the course's main menu. This would display a page listing all of the forums in the course, including the one in the following screenshot:
There are several times when Blackboard gives us several options to navigate to an activity. The instructor can create links to specific Forums, Blogs, Wikis, Assignments, and other activities. The instructor can also create pages where all of the occurrences of a type of activity are displayed in one place.