Forum activity

To add a forum activity to your course page, follow these steps: Click Turn editing on . Select Forum from the Add an activity/ resource  menu. Customise the available settings . Click Save and display (or Save and return to course ). ...

Forum posting The default content of Subject is usually 'Re: <the name of the parent post>', although you can change it if required. Sharing images through forums When an image is attached as a file to a forum message, it is immediately disp...

Forum settings  When adding a forum activity to a course you can configure the following settings. Setting Description Notes Forum name The name for the forum. Will be displayed on the course page. - Description Th...

Users can individually configure their own forum preferences, including digest type and forum tracking.  To configure your forum preferences, follow these steps: Go to the  Preferences page from the user menu.  In the User account section cli...

You can manually add or remove users as subscribers to a forum in a course. Subscribers will get an email update (controlled by their digest settings) when a new post is made. To add a new subscriber, follow these steps: Select Show/edit current ...

When forum threads get very long, you may want to archive them and start up the conversation again with a good summary. Discussions can be archived one by one or by backing up the complete forum with user data, then restoring it. To archive a discu...