Add a Forum

1. Add a Forum activity.
2. Fill in the information of the forum activity.

1. Add a Forum activity

1.  Go to the course which you want to edit and click to enable the editing mode if you have not done so.
2.  Select “Add an activity…” where you want to add the forum activity. And select the activity type as “Forum”.

2. Fill in the information of the forum activity.

1. Fill in the general information of the forum activity.
   There are 5 types of Forum available for selection.

   Item	Description
   A single simple discussion	A single discussion topic which everyone can reply to.
   Each person posts one discussion	Each student can post exactly one new discussion topic, which everyone can then reply to.
   Q and A forum	Students must first post their perspectives before viewing other students’ posts.
   Standard forum displayed in a blog-like format	An open forum where anyone can start a new discussion at any time, and in which discussion topics are displayed on one page with “Discuss this topic” links.
   Standard forum for general use	An open forum where anyone can start a new discussion at any time.

   Under Subscription Mode, you can set how you want students to receive emails of posts to forums:

   Item	Description
   Optional subscription	Participants can choose whether to be subscribed.
   Forced subscription	Everyone is subscribed and cannot unsubscribe.
   Auto subscription	Everyone is subscribed initially, but can choose to unsubscribe at any time.
   Subscription disabled	Subscriptions are not allowed.

   Note: You can click the question markbehind each fields to view the usage of this field.

   2. Fill in the other information of the forum activity. (Optional)

1. Post threshold for blocking
   With this setting, Students can be blocked from posting more than a given number of posts in a given time period. Set the value to “Don`t block” to disable this setting
2. Ratings
   Forums may also be used as graded assignments. In order to add grades to posts, in the Ratings section choose an Aggregate Type and a Grade Scale. Once a student makes a post to the forum, a drop down menu will appear on the post making it easy to assign a grade when you read it.
3. Restrict Access
   You can also restrict student access to the assignment by time or grade condition.

3. After you complete filling all those information, you can click the / to submit your forum.