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10Using Forum

By using forum activity, students and teachers can share ideas by posting comments.

10.1 Adding Posts

10.2 Forum Preference and Notification Settings *New*

 


 

10.1 Adding Posts

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Clicking the forum link on the Course Page to enter the Forum Page.

 

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1 Forum Description : It is forum summary or instruction from teacher. Read it carefully before making any posts.

2 Add a new discussion topic

3 Topics : List of discussion topic(s), click the link to read the posts and leave comments.

4 Subscription : If enabled forum subscription, the user will receive email notification about all the new posts in the forum. If enabled discussion subscription, the user will receive email notification about all the new posts in the discussion (a specific topic in a forum).

 


 

10.2 Forum Preference and Notification Settings

Update the default notification settings of self posts in the system settings; and manage the notification settings of each Forumm.

 

Forum Preference in the System Settings

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1 Click the account name on the top right corner of the top menu bar.

2 Choose "Preference".

 

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3 Choose "Forum preferences".

 

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4 Email digest type : the daily digest setting that forums will use by default. Settings of each forum can be managed by

  • No digest : you will receive one e-mail per forum post.
  • Digest : complete posts : you will receive one digest e-mail per day containing the complete contents of each forum post.
  • Digest : subjects only : you will receive one digest e-mail per day containing just the subject of each forum post.

5 Forum auto-subscribe :

  • Yes: when I post, subscribe me to that forum discussion.
  • No: don't automatically subscribe me to forum discussions.

 

Notification Settings of Each Forum

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1 On the Course Page, click the "Forum" on the Activities Block for listing out all the forums on the course.

 

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2 Update subscription setting : Yes / No.

3 Update email digest setting : No digest / Complete posts / Subjects only.

 

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