Moodle 2.0

Adding Social Activities to Your Course
Forum type
In Moodle, you can create several types of forums. Each type can be used in a
different way. The types of forums are:
Type of Forum
Single simple
discussion
Each person posts
one discussion
Q and A
Standard forum
displayed in a
blog-like format
Standard forum
for general use
Description
The entire forum appears on one page. The first posting, at the
top of the page, is the topic for the forum. This topic is usually
created by the Teacher. The students then post replies under this
topic. A single-topic forum is most useful for short, highly-focused
discussions.
Each student can create one and only one new topic. Everyone can
reply to every topic.
This is like a single-topic forum, in which the Teacher creates the
topic for the forum. Students then reply to that topic. However,
a student cannot see anyone else's reply until they have posted a
reply. The topic is usually a question posed by the Teacher, and the
students' replies are usually answers to that question.
In a standard forum, anyone can start a new topic. Teachers and
students can create new topics and reply to existing postings.
Displaying the discussion in a blog-like format makes both the title
and the body of each discussion visible.
In a standard forum, anyone can start a new topic. Teachers and
students can create new topics and reply to existing postings. Only
the titles of discussions are visible; you must click into a discussion
to read the postings under it.
Forum introduction
When the student enters a forum, they will see the Forum introduction at the top of
the forum's page. This text should tell the student what the forum is about. You can
also use this introduction to tell the student if they can rate posts by other students,
and even to link to a document with more extensive instructions for using the forum.
This is possible because the Introduction is a full-featured web page that can hold
anything that you can put on a standard web page.
Subscription mode
Selecting the Force subscription option subscribes all students to the forum
automatically—even students who enrol in the course at a later time. Before using
this setting, consider its long-term effect on the students who take your class.
If you re-use the same class for a later group of students, then the previous group
will still be enroled. Do you want previous students to be notified of new postings
in the current class's forum? If not, there are several solutions, such as:
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