What is a Forum?

• The forum module is an activity where students and teachers can exchange ideas by posting comments.

• Forum posts can be graded by the teacher or other students.

• A forum can contribute significantly to successful communication and community building in an online environment.

• You can use forums for many innovative purposes in educational settings, but teaching forums and student forums are arguably the two more significant distinctions

Forum settings

• To add a forum: With the editing turned on, in the section you wish to add your forum, click the "Add an activity or resource" link (or, if not present, the "Add an activity" drop down menu )and choose Forum.• This will take you to the forum settings page

titled "Adding a new forum".

Forum administration settings

• A short name of the forum (e.g. "Favourite colour"), which will be displayed on the course homepage.

Forum type• There are five forum types to choose from:• A single simple discussion - A single topic discussion developed on one page, which

is useful for short focused discussions• Standard forum for general use - An open forum where anyone can start a new

topic at any time; this is the best general-purpose forum• Each person posts one discussion - Each person can post exactly one new

discussion topic (everyone can reply to them though); this is useful when you want each student to start a discussion about, say, their reflections on the week's topic, and everyone else responds to these

• Q and A Forum - Instead of initiating discussions participants pose a question in the initial post of a discussion. Students may reply with an answer, but they will not see the replies of other Students to the question in that discussion until they have themselves replied to the same discussion.

• Standard forum displayed in a blog-like format• A News forum is a special type of forum that is automatically created with a new

course.

Forum introduction

• Place the description of the forum here. It has the standard Moodle HTML editor toolbar to assist the teacher.

and all the subsequent boxes are also filled…

• My Assignment on how to create a forum on moodle can also be viewed at

• http://www.screenr.com/IKZ7

The Steps for creating a Forum on the moodle are shared as follows:

1 ONCE WE ARE LOGGED ON THE MOODLE, SELECT PRACTICE COURSE ( SUBJECT, WE HAVE SUBJECT RIGHTS ALSO AS A TEACHER)… INDICATED WITH THE ARROW.

2. TURN THE EDITING OPTION ON

STEP 3GO TO THE WEEK FOR WHICH THE FORUM IS TO BE CREATED.

GO TO ADD AN ACTIVITY, CLICK ON THE DROP DOWN MENU AND SELECT FORUM A NEW WINDOW WILL OPEN….

FILL THE COLUMNS AS INDICATED….

Fill the form and .. Finally Save and Return to course

Finally the Forum created will be displayed like this….. I have successfully created the forum- 21st century skills: the challenges ahead.

THANK YOU