The forum activity in Course Site allows participants in a course site to exchange ideas and have discussions.
To create a forum, follow the same steps you would to add an activity.
There are 5 types of forums, each designed with a very specific educational purpose.
Here is an excerpt from the Moodle documentation for Forum Settings:
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Please Note: There is a slight time delay until students can see each other's post after they post– in some cases, it might be up to one hour.  |
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Here is a link to help determine the correct forum type to use in your course: https://docs.moodle.org/39/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.
If you would like to discuss the use of Forums in your course site, please contact an Instructional Technologist.