Forums

Creating forums

• How to add a forum — How to add a forum or discussion board to your module
  

Using forums

• How do I set up areas for student collaboration in Moodle? — Lots of information on how to set up activities which students can use to collaborate with one another
  
• How to use a Forum for blogs or learning journals — This is a guide to the Moodle 'Blogs' feature, which allows anyone to create text posts featuring comment, opinion, instruction, or anything you wish to write as a blog.
  
  

Using forums with groups

• How to create a forum for groups — A forum can be created very simply but you can also create a forum in which particular groups of students can work together
• Working with groups of students — This document will help you with managing groups of students in different ways depending on your need.  There are a few tips and examples as well.
• How To create groups and groupings — This tutorial shows you how to group students together in Moodle in order to set them different tasks, assignments and activities.
• An overview of how to use Groups and Groupings effectively — This help document goes through how to create groups and groupings and how they can be used to aid module management.

Editing your profile and managing your own access to forums

• How to change whether I get emails from a forum —  This page will show you how to subscribe or unsubscribe from forums on Moodle. 
  
• How can I see when new items are added to a forum in my module?

• I'd like to change the number of emails Moodle sends me
  
  

All pages on forums

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  How to create a forum for groups — A forum can be created very simply but you can also create a forum in which particular groups of students can work together
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  How to add a forum — How to add a forum or discussion board to your module
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  How can I see when new items are added to a forum in my module?
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  How to change whether I get emails from a forum —  This page will show you how to subscribe or unsubscribe from forums on Moodle. 
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  I'd like to change the number of emails Moodle sends me
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  How to grade forums using whole forum gradings
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  How do I enable whole forum grading?
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  How to use a Forum for blogs or learning journals — This is a guide to the Moodle 'Blogs' feature, which allows anyone to create text posts featuring comment, opinion, instruction, or anything you wish to write as a blog.
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  Using rubrics when grading Moodle forums
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  Magic with Moodle 12 - Using forums with groups
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  Magic with Moodle 10 - Using forums to answer student questions