Forums

Overview
Start a New Discussion
Reply to a Forum Post
Subscribe to or Unsubscribe from a Forum

Overview

A forum is like an electronic bulletin board that may be used to post announcements or hold online threaded discussions.

By default, all courses have a News forum, shown circled below, that your instructor may use to post class announcements.

Your instructor may add other forums to the course. Typically, when you open one of these forums, you'll see a list of discussion topics. Clicking on a topic displays the initial post along with indented replies, as shown below.

You can change how you view a discussion by clicking on the down arrow at the top of the page and selecting a different option.

Once you post in a forum, you have 30 minutes to edit or delete the post, and a copy of your post will be e-mailed to your instructor and the other students in the course.

Start a New Discussion

1. On the course home page, click on the forum to open it.
2. Click on the Add a new topic button.
   
   
3. In the Subject field, enter a title for the discussion.
4. Enter and format your message.
5. Click on the Post to forum button.

Reply to a Forum Post

1. At the bottom of the forum post to which you want to reply, click on Reply.
   
   
2. Enter and format your message.
3. Click on the Post to forum button.

Subscribe to or Unsubscribe from a Forum

When you subscribe to a forum, you'll receive e-mail copies of every post in that forum. (Posts are sent about 30 minutes after they are first written.)

If you don't want to receive an individual e-mail for every post, then you can choose to receive a daily digest e-mail that either contains all of the posts made that day or only the subjects of the posts that were made that day. To select a digest e-mail, change the E-Mail digest setting in your profile information. (For more information, see Edit Your Moodle Profile.)

If you don't want to receive any e-mails at all, then you can usually unsubscribe from a forum.

To subscribe to or unsubscribe from a forum, open it and then click on Subscribe to this forum or Unsubscribe from this forum in the upper-right corner of the page.

Note: You also may subscribe to or unsubscribe from a forum each time that you post in it by clicking on the Subscription down arrow, shown circled below, at the bottom of the Your reply or Your new discussion topic page, and selecting the desired option.