Capabilities/mod/forum:initialsubscriptions
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- This allows a user to be subscribed initially to forums
- A user with this capability will receive notification emails from force-subscribed forums
- This capability is allowed for default teacher, non-editing teacher and student roles
- This capability is not set for default admin and course creator roles so they don't receive unwanted forum subscription emails i.e. emails from every forum that has forced-subscribtion). If this is set for any role that is used at system level (e.g. admin, course creators), assigning users to these roles will take a long time because users will be subscribed in forums in all courses.