Creating and running forums

Forum is at the heart of Moodle, and it provides you a way to organize student interaction, provide peer review, share information, and disseminate course content. You can also use the forums to provide links to assessments.

Forums are one of Moodle's most useful features. A well-run class forum can stimulate thoughtful discussion, motivate students to become involved, and result in unexpected insights.

You can add any number of forums to a course and to the site's front page. By default, anyone with access to the course will have access to various forums in that course. To separate students, you can use the group mode to ensure that students from different groups cannot see each other's posts in the forum.

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