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This refers to Moodle 4.3 .6 from July 2019 onwards from August 2024 onwards
A forum is a collaborative activity that tutors can setup to allow students to chat. Discussions can be general or may be relevant to a particular module e.g. for group work.
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Once you’re in the Forum page, in our example ‘Introductions Please…’‘Compare and Contrast activity’, you should see guidance on how to use the Forum and you may see previous entries from the tutor and/or other students.
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2. An editing page for a new topic will then appear. To expand the toolbar, you will need to click on the 'Show / hide advanced buttons' button. Once you’ve completed the required information scroll to the bottom of the page and click the ‘Post to forum’ button.
3. If you need to add a File to your Forum Post, select Advanced and drag the file you want to attach into the Attachments box. Alternatively you can find the file by clicking on the File icon on the Advanced page.
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Tip: The discussion topic always appears in the first column of the list of topics.
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Once in the discussion topic you will see the ‘parent’ post which is the discussion topic and reply posts following it.
Tip: You can change the way forum posts are displayed by clicking on the drop down menu above the original forum post.
2. You can reply to either the parent or other reply posts within the discussion by clicking on the ‘Reply’ link next to the post you wish to reply to.
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3. A textbox will appear for you to type in your response and click 'Submit'. If you want to reply to a forum post privately, click on on 'Reply privately' checkbox before clicking on 'Submit'.
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