Creating Forums for Discussion Dave Powers School District of Clayton

Go to Your Course LOGIN CLICK ON YOUR COURSE

LOGIN

CLICK ON YOUR COURSE

1) Turn Editing On Click on the “Turn Editing On” button in top right hand corner

Click on the “Turn Editing On” button in top right hand corner

2) Next, Add a Forum Click on Add an Activity Choose Forum from the drop down menu

Click on Add an Activity

Choose Forum from the drop down menu

3) General Forum Settings Type a name for the forum Then Click on the forum type menu and select the type of forum you would like. It is recommended to start with a single simple discussion

Type a name for the forum

Then Click on the forum type menu and select the type of forum you would like.

It is recommended to start with a single simple discussion

3) General Forum Settings (Continued) Type the question or topic for discussion. The font size is defaulted as 8 point font I recommend changing the font size to 14 pt.

Type the question or topic for discussion.

The font size is defaulted as 8 point font

I recommend changing the font size to 14 pt.

3) General Forum Settings IMPORTANT!!! Change Force Everyone to be Subscribed to “Subscriptions not allowed” Turn Read Tracking On And Change the Maximum attachment size to 2MB Should look like this after changing settings

Change Force Everyone to be Subscribed to “Subscriptions not allowed”

Turn Read Tracking On

And Change the Maximum attachment size to 2MB

4) RSS Settings Set RSS feed for this activity to Posts Set the Number of RSS recent articles to Posts When finished, it should look like this…

Set RSS feed for this activity to Posts

Set the Number of RSS recent articles to Posts

When finished, it should look like this…

5) Grade & Post Threshold” Settings You Don’t Need to Worry About You don’t need to change anything in this section at all

You don’t need to change anything in this section at all

6) Common Module Settings Group mode: change only if you want to divide student into groups Visible: Choose to Show to students or to Hide for later use (You are probably ready to start. If so, set to Show )

Group mode: change only if you want to divide student into groups

Visible: Choose to Show to students or to Hide for later use

(You are probably ready to start. If so, set to Show )

7) Click Save Changes NOW YOU ARE READY TO BEGIN DISCUSSION!!!

Advanced Forum Tips: (Archiving) After you have many single simple discussions , you can move all of them into one general forum for archiving.

After you have many single simple discussions , you can move all of them into one general forum for archiving.