Forum is as a place where your class can exchange ideas and views. There are some terms in the forum that you will need to understand first before you begin:
- Heading – This is the first thing that you need to create in your forum. You can create more than one heading. Heading will contain categories.
- Category – Category will be how you categorize the discussion. It will contain / list the discussion threads. Category can also be added in Learning Flow.
- Thread – A thread can be considered as a topic. It is the first post that generates discussion.
- Post – A post is anything that someone posts. It can be as a new thread / topic or it can be as a reply to a thread.
The hierarchy can be summed up as follow:
- How to create heading?
- How to edit or delete heading?
- How to create category?
- How to edit or delete category?
- How to create multiple headings and categories?
- How to create, reply, delete, and subscribe to a discussion thread?
- How to make replying a discussion thread a task for students?
- How to rate a post?
- How to pin or unpin a discussion thread?
- How to search for post?
- How to view forum statistics?
- How to export forum statistics?
- How to view activity report?
- How to have anonymous forum?
- Give students access to Forum categories