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The News forum is a special forum for general announcements. A course may only have one News forum unless it has been imported from another system which supports more than one news forum.

This forum is automatically created for each course and for the [[Front Page|front page]] of the Moodle site. By default, it is placed in the top of the center section and only teachers and administrators may add posts or reply to posts. The [[Adding/editing a forum|default settings]] force every enrolled person to be subscribed to the News forum.

The [[Latest News block]] displays a [[Course_settings#News_items_to_show|specific number]] of recent discussions from the News forum. 

As with any forum, emails can be sent to subscribed members of a News forum.

==Removing the news forum==

The news forum may be removed from a course as follows:
#Delete the news forum from the course homepage
#In [[Course settings]] set "News items to show" to 0
#Delete the Latest news block
#Alternatively - hide the news forum

==Enabling logged-in users to view the site news==

By default, non logged-in users can view the site news, whereas logged-in users obtain an error message. (This issue is due to be fixed in Moodle 1.9.6 - see MDL-14953.)

To enable logged-in users to view the site news, either:
#Access ''Site Administration > Front Page > Front Page roles''.
#Follow the "Override permissions" link.
#Click on "Authenticated User".
#Change the capability [[Capabilities/mod/forum:viewdiscussion|mod/forum:viewdiscussion]] to allow.
#Click the "Save changes" button at the bottom of the page.

Or:
#Access ''Site Administration > Front Page > Front Page settings''.
#Set the default front page role to student (setting only available in Moodle 1.9 onwards).

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