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Here is an excerpt from the Moodle documentation for Forum Settings:

Other Special Purpose Forums
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Here is a link to help determine the correct forum type to use in your course: https://docs.moodle.org/39401/en/Forum_activity

You may also choose to use an OUBlog as it has some additional functionality not offered in the course site forums.

Note: Announcement forum is a special type of forum that is automatically created with a new course.

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