Forum settings

Location: Settings > Forum administration > Edit settings

There are nine (possible) sections of Forum settings. This depends on features activated by Moodle Admin (in Site Administration > Advanced features):

General

Forum name

• Write a name for your forum. Something brief, accurate, easy to notice on the course main page.
• Moodle Admin may allow HTML in titles by turning on formatstringstriptags capability (Site Administration > Appearance > HTML settings; off by default)

Forum type

There are five forum types:

A single simple discussion

• A single discussion topic which everyone can reply to. Best for short, focused discussions.

Each person posts one discussion

• Each student can post exactly one new discussion topic, which everyone can then reply to. Very useful when you want each student to start a discussion about, say, their reflections on the week's topic, and everyone else responds to these.

Q and A forum

• Students must first post their own perspectives or answers before viewing other students' replies a discussion. Students themselves may want to pose a question in the initial post of a discussion. Great for encouraging independent thought!

Standard forum displayed in a blog-like format

• An open forum where anyone can start a new discussion at any time. Discussion topics are displayed on one page with "Discuss this topic" links. Blog-like but with the added capability for posts to be rated.

Standard forum

• For general use - An open forum where anyone can start a new discussion at any time. This is the best general-purpose forum.

There is also a News forum, an automatically generated one-way noticeboard from the course teacher/moderator to the course participants. News forum can be set up as a Latest news block on the main page (and not from this menu).

Forum introduction

A space to describe the purpose, subject, rules, rating & grading criteria (if applicable) and similar important aspects of the forum. The standard HTML editor allows for formatting of text, links and inserting media.

RSS

• RSS allows for users to be subscribed to either new discussions or new posts and have them delivered via RSS feed.
• For this feature to work, Moodle Admin has to allow/configure ...

TODO !!!

Grade

Note: This section is only shown to the person with capabilities to grade this activity (eg. Teacher role).

Outcomes

Note: This section is visible only shown if Outcomes are turned on by Moodle Admin (Site Administration > Advanced features) and only to the person with capabilities to check outcomes in this activity (eg. Teacher role).

Ratings

This section is visible only shown if Ratings are turned on by Moodle Admin (Site Administration > Advanced features)

Restrict access

This section is visible only shown if Conditional activities are turned on by Moodle Admin (Site Administration > Advanced features)

Activity completion

This section is visible only shown if Activity completion is turned on by Moodle Admin (Site Administration > Advanced features)