Creating Forums Creating Forums for Discussion for Discussion

Dave PowersDave PowersSchool District of ClaytonSchool District of Clayton

Go to Your Course LOGIN CLICK ON YOUR

COURSE

1) Turn Editing On Click on the “Turn Editing On” button in top right hand

corner

2) Next, Add a Forum

Click on Add an Activity Choose Forum from the

drop down menu

3) General Forum Settings Type a name for the forum Then Click on the forum type menu and select the type of forum

you would like. It is recommended to start with a single simple discussion

3) General Forum Settings(Continued)

Type the question or topic for discussion. The font size is defaulted as 8 point font

I recommend changing the font size to 14 pt.

3) General Forum SettingsIMPORTANT!!!

Change Force Everyone to be Subscribed to “Subscriptions not allowed”

Turn Read Tracking On And Change the Maximum attachment size to 2MB

Should look like this after changing settings

4) RSS Settings Set RSS feed

for this activity to Posts

Set the Number of RSS recent articles to Posts

When finished, it should look like this…

5) Grade & Post Threshold”Settings You Don’t Need to Worry About

You don’t need to change anything in this section at all

6) Common Module Settings Group mode:

change only if you want to divide student into groups

Visible: Choose to Show to students or to Hide for later use

(You are probably ready to start. If so, set to Show)

7) Click Save Changes

NOW YOU ARE READY TO BEGIN

DISCUSSION!!!

Advanced Forum Tips: (Archiving)

After you have many single simple discussions, you can move all of them into one general forum for archiving.