Discussion Board: Creating a Forum

Choose Discussion Board from Communication Link

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From the left hand Navigation Panel

1. Click on Communication
2. The clcik on Discussion Board

Create a New Forum

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Click on the Create Forum button

Define options for posts to this forum: Part One

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To define the Forum:
1. Create a Name for the Forum
2. Describe what the forum is about
3. Make sure the forum is available
4. If required you can define Display After and Display Until dates which defines when the forum is available

Define options for posts to this forum: Part Two

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Options have been specifically chosen to encourage participation as follows:
5. Check Allow Anonymous Posts and Allow Author to Delete Own Posts for All posts.
6. Check Allow Author to Edit Own Published Posts
7. The Allow Post Tagging Option allows text tagging to filter messages. It does however slow down the loading of a large active forum. Recommend that it remains unchecked
8. The Allow Users to Reply with Quote, the Allow File Attachments and the Allow Members to Create New Threads are self explanatory and checked by default. We recommend they stay checked
9. By checking the Allow Members to Create New Threads and the Allow members to subscribe to threads if give users the opportunity to shape the discussion and keep up. If users are subscribed to the forum they receive email notification when someone posts to the forum. You can check the option to Include body of post in the email
10. You can check Allow Members to Rate Posts which allows peer rating which encourages quality posts.
11. The system does not allow the grading of forums with anonymous threads so we check the No Marking in Forum which means the forum is ungraded.
12. After you check the Submit Button you can see your new forum

New Forum on the Discussion Board Page

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Please keep in mind: You can add a link to a specific forum on the Course Menu or a Content Area.