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  • Forums are the most common method of facilitating student interaction in Moodle.

    • See How Forums Work Page

      This page contains a video gives a quick demonstration of how forums work in Moodle.

    • Whole Forum Grading Page

      Enable this to ease the work of grading students' participation in forums. 

    • Rating Forums Page

      This is the "old" method of grading forums. Some faculty configure this to allow another method of interacting on forums.

    • Forums in "Group Mode" Page

      This page take you through the steps of creating a forum that students complete in "group mode" which means they post and reply only to those who have been assigned to the same group.

    • Forum Subscriptions Page
      When subscribed to forums, updates are sent to users' email. This page summarizes how to configure it.
    • Forum: "Attaching" a Document to a Forum Post or Reply Page

      If you want to include a document (such as a PDF, Word file, image, Excel workbook, PowerPoint presentation, or other file) to your forum post or reply, follow the direction here.