Moodle Resources

To add a Forum to your course, turn editing on and click the "Forum" option in the "Add an activity...." drop down menu in any section of your course.

Give your forum a descriptive name in the Forum name field and write a descriptive sentence or two in the Forum introduction field. The forum name will appear later as the link to the forum in your course. The forum introduction appears at the top of the forum.

You may also choose to subscribe your course users to your Forum. If you choose to subscribe them, they will receive emails when new forum posts are created.

Scroll down and you will see the Grade section. This will allow you to grade forum posts. By default, grading in forums is disabled.

Scroll down and click 'Save and display'.

Your forum will now appear:

Initially, your forum has no discussions. To add the first discussion, click the 'Add a new discussion topic' button. The following page will be displayed:

Enter a Subject and then put your discussion item or question in the Message area. Note that this text entry box does use the HTML Editor, so you can use styled text, graphics, and all the other elements included in that toolbar.

Click the "Post to forum" button. If you've made a mistake, you have 30 minutes in which you can edit your forum posting.

You will now return to your forum. You will see your new discussion listed.