Forums

Location: Content Management/Forums or Learning Management/Courses/Forums

Overview: Use Forums to provide a facility for your website visitors to interact in a traditional web discussion board environment. Forums can be placed on your website for use in two genal ways: a web page or inside an online course.

In the following course we will cover how to create forums and set them up in either a web page or a classroom environment, as well as how to navigate and use them.

• What is a Forum?
• Where can you use Forums on your website?

What is a Forum?

A forum is a website content object that hosts an online message board designed to provide your website users a place to have topic-based online conversations.  Learn More > 

Where can you use Forums on your website?

Forums can be placed on your website for use in two environments:

1. As a discussion board placed on a web page. This web page is often located in a “members area” or some type of special permission access page. This can be useful for a member’s only forum. Learn More > 
2. Within a course inside the Learning Management Classroom. This can be useful to those who want to include a forum as apart of their Courses. Learn More > 

Click the Start or Continue button to proceed to the next content module in sequential order, or you may jump ahead to a specific topic by visiting the Course Content page for a linked Index. 

Related Topics:

• Forum Elements: Discussions, Threads, Posts, and Replies
• Forum Access
• Forum Navigation for a Forum Presented on a Web Page

Common Questions:

• How do I create a new forum?
• How do I add a forum to a page?
• How to set up a forum for use in a course?
• How do I create a discussion in a forum?
• How do I create a thread within a forum discussion?
• How to post and reply to posts in forums?
• How to add images to a forum post?
• How to add documents to a forum post?
• How to add a profile Image for forum participants?