Forum

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Last updated: Nov 30, 2023 by Chris Harvey
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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:


Standard Forum

Q&A Forum


Other Special Purpose Forums

Single Simple Discussion

Each person posts one discussion



Here is a link to help determine the correct forum type to use in your course: https://docs.moodle.org/401/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.





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