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 How to post and respond in a forum

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This refers to Moodle 4.3 from August 2024 onwards  


A forum is a collaborative activity in Moodle that your tutor may that tutors can setup to allow you students to just generally chat to one another or it chat. Discussions can be general or may be relevant to the a particular module e.g. for group work discussion.

To contribute to a general Forum, see below.

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Once you’re in the Forum page, in this case ‘Introductions Please…’our example ‘Compare and Contrast activity’, you should see some guidance about on how to use the Forum and possibly some you may see previous entries completed by from the tutor and/or other students.

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  1. To create your own discussion topic in the Forum, click on the ‘Add a new discussion topic’ button at the top of the page.Image Removed


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2. An editing page for a new topic will then appear.

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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.

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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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Posting a reply in a discussion topic

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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.

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     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 'Reply privately' checkbox before clicking on 'Submit'. 

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See other Help pages about Forums

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