From the course: Learning Moodle 3.7
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Add a forum
- [Instructor] Forums provide a way to engage students in discussions about course content. This provides an opportunity for you as the instructor to read what users are posting, and then assess their learning or give feedback. Let's take a look at the Forum activity inside of Moodle. Now, I want to create a forum, and I first need to decide which section to add it to. I'm going to add it to my Traits and Heredity section. I have editing turned on, so I'll click on Add an activity or resource. From here, under Activities, I'll select Forum and then I'll click Add. Now, once inside of here, we need to give our forum a name. I'm going to go ahead and name it Issues in Genetics, and below this, we can use the rich-text editor to add a description. Now, you might want to do this to let students know about any expectations you have regarding the forum. Maybe you want them to use complete sentences, maybe you have a specific word count that you want to let them know about, and if you want…
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