{"id":557,"date":"2022-07-05T11:43:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T15:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcstudents\/?post_type=chapter&p=557"},"modified":"2025-04-30T18:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:14:13","slug":"participating-in-forums","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/unbcstudents\/chapter\/participating-in-forums\/","title":{"raw":"How to Participate in Discussion Forums","rendered":"How to Participate in Discussion Forums"},"content":{"raw":"Your Instructors may use Moodle to engage in discussions. These discussions will take place in Discussion Forums<\/strong> which may be in all in one section or separated throughout the course shell, so familiarize yourself with the Course layout\u00a0 . There are 4 different types of Forums that might be potentially used in your courses:\r\n\r\n1. <\/strong>Standard forum for general use- <\/b>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).\"\"\r\n\r\n \r\n

\"\"<\/p>\r\n2. Single<\/strong> simple discussion-<\/strong> Instructors posts a question and students are able only to reply (Note:<\/strong> students cannot start a new topic of discussion).\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\n3. Question<\/strong> and Answer- <\/strong>\u00a0a question is posted and students respond with possible answers.\u00a0 Important to note:<\/strong>\u00a0 Q and A forum requires students to post once before viewing other students' postings.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\n4. Standard forum displayed in a blog-like format-<\/strong> 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.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ","rendered":"

Your Instructors may use Moodle to engage in discussions. These discussions will take place in Discussion Forums<\/strong> which may be in all in one section or separated throughout the course shell, so familiarize yourself with the Course layout\u00a0 . There are 4 different types of Forums that might be potentially used in your courses:<\/p>\n

1. <\/strong>Standard forum for general use- <\/b>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).\"\"<\/p>\n

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2. Single<\/strong> simple discussion-<\/strong> Instructors posts a question and students are able only to reply (Note:<\/strong> students cannot start a new topic of discussion).<\/p>\n

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3. Question<\/strong> and Answer- <\/strong>\u00a0a question is posted and students respond with possible answers.\u00a0 Important to note:<\/strong>\u00a0 Q and A forum requires students to post once before viewing other students’ postings.<\/p>\n

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4. Standard forum displayed in a blog-like format-<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

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