Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

Forum

While we are in the Site administration menu, we can easily look at the global settings for our forums so that all the courses have the look, feel, and functionality that is ideal for a cohort-based course. We are at a deciding point because we need to determine how to make sure people know which students are replying to threads, and how people are responding.

Because of the discussions in response to a thread that the instructor has posted and the desire of the students to see peer responses, it's best to select a threaded response.

Now, let's take a look at the settings by performing the following steps:

1. In the Site administration menu, click on Plugins.
2. Click on Activity modules.
3. Click on Forum.
4. On the Forum screen, set the option ...