Moodle User Manual for Instructors
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1. which you post a message This means that you receive email copies of all messages for these forums You may unsubscribe from forums whenever you want OhY E101 D Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY OhYEOlO BI Y Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services Moodle User Manual for Instructors 50 Email digest type You may choose to receive all email from Moodle in one daily message There is also the option to receive either the complete message or just the Subject titles from forums you subscribe to Forum tracking This highlights unread forum messages so you can quickly see what s new Note that you will need to click on Mark read for every message to tell the system the message has been read subscribing Unsubscribing to forums Moodle has a subscription feature that sends emails to the address you have specified in your Moodle profile every time discussion occurs in any forum you are subscribed to The instructions below will show you where to go to change your subscription to a forum 1 Click the forum you wish to subscribe unsubscribe 2 Click Subscribe to this forum or Unsubscribe from this forum under Settings block and Forum administration to subscribe unsubscribe searching in discussion forums In the top right hand corner of the Forums overview page there is a Search Forums feature that can be used to search for keywords2. Monitoring Student Participation It is possible in Moodle to view the posts made by a certain individual 1 Click on the name of the individual in your course 2 You will be taken to that user s profile Click on Forum posts of an individual participant under the Navigation block You can view the contributions by either posts or discussions OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL YORK UNIVERSITY
3. Moodle User Manual for Instructors 49 Managing a discussion forum MOODLE DOCUMENTATION Moderating discussions It is important that Forums are properly moderated to make sure they stay on track Moving discussions 1 You must be in editing mode click the Turn editing on button 2 Select the move button amp beside the forum you want to move Se eS ee eS 3 Select the new location _ the forum you want to move to Splitting discussions Sometimes participants may reply to a message instead of starting a new topic In this case you can split a discussion thread to move the out of context post into a new discussion thread in the same forum This will also move any response posts that occur after the message you are choosing to split 1 Inthe post that you wish to split click on the Split link 2 You can provide an appropriate Discussion name and click Split 3 The post will now appear as a new topic in the forum Useful forum settings in your Moodle profile There are a few Settings in your Moodle profile that allow you to control certain behaviour in the discussion forums You can access your Moodle profile directly from the My Courses page or by clicking on your name anywhere you see it in red and clicking Edit Profile To see the options below you may need to click on the Show advanced button Forum auto subscribe By selecting this you are automatically subscribed to any forum to
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