Creating a Discussion Forum

Use forums to organize your discussion topics into categories. Your course can have multiple forums and topics, but you must create a forum before you can create a topic since all topics belong to forums.

Learn About:

 Creating a Discussion Forum

 

  1. From the course navbar, select Tools.
  2. Choose Discussions.
  3. Click New, and then select New Forum from the drop-down menu.
  4. Enter a Title and Description for your Forum.
    enter a title and description for the discussion

  5. The following settings can be applied under the Options interface:
    • Allow anonymous posts - Select this option if you want to enable users to post anonymously.
    • A moderator must approve individual posts before they display in the forum - Select this option to ensure that posts are approved by a moderator before they display in the forum.
    • Users must start a thread before they read and reply to other threads in each topic - Select this option to ensure user participation.
    • Display forum description in topics - Select this option to display a discussion forum description within a discussion topic description.
    • Availability - Select visibility options for your forum.
    • Locking Options - Select locking options to prevent users from accessing the forum until it is unlocked.
      discussion options

  6. Click Save and Close.

 

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Last Updated: 12/10/2024