How to Participate in Discussion Forums

Your Instructors may use Moodle to engage in discussions. These discussions will take place under Forums. There are 4 different types of Forums that might be potentially used in your courses:

1. Standard forum for general use- students will see an introduction text in a separate space above the list of discussions. Students see a button to start a new discussion (thread).

2. Single simple discussion- Instructors posts a question and students are able only to reply (Note: students cannot start a new topic of discussion).

3. Question and Answer-  a question is posted and students respond with possible answers.  Important to note:  Q and A forum requires students to post once before viewing other students’ postings.

4. Standard forum displayed in a blog-like format- standard forum for general use, but the first post of each discussion is displayed (as in a blog) so that students can read it and then choose to respond by clicking the “Discuss this topic” button bottom right of the post.