Activity module tests
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Forum module
- The News forum may be used for announcements. By default, everyone is subscribed and only teachers and admins can post.
- The Latest News block displays a specific number of recent discussions from the News forum.
- The single simple discussion forum type enables students to reply to a discussion started by the teacher.
- The 'Each person posts one discussion' forum type allows students to post exactly one new discussion topic. Everyone can reply to all discussions.
- The Q & A forum type requires students to post before they can view other students' postings.
- A forum can be set so that students can choose whether they wish to be subscribed, or subscription can be forced (just initially or forever) or subscriptions can be not allowed.
- Users can track read and unread forum posts.
- Forum posts may be rated according to a chosen grading scale. There are five possible aggregation methods for the ratings - average, count, max, min and sum. Ratings may be restricted to posts within certain dates.
- Students can be blocked from posting in a forum after they post a certain number of posts in a given period. Students are warned as they approach the number.
- Discussions can be viewed nested, flat or threaded, oldest or newest first.
- Discussions can be moved between forums in the same course by the teacher.
- Images attached to forum posts are shown inline.
