Oncourse Forums: Help contents

Overview

The Forums tool allows instructors or site leaders to create an unlimited number of discussion forums, and is integrated closely with other tools such as Resources and Gradebook. More...

How do I?

Feature demonstrations

All the following feature demonstrations include audio, and each link will open a new window.

• Create a discussion forum and topic
  
• Compose a forum message
  
• Read and reply to a forum message
  
• Grade a forum message
  
• Change default forum settings
  
• Reorder forums and topics
  
• View forum statistics
  

Documents

• Setting up forums
  • Creating a new forum and topic in Forums
  • Controlling access to Forums
  • Revising or deleting a forum or topic
• Participating in forum discussions
  • Viewing Forums
  • Posting and responding to forum messages
• Managing forum messages
  • Deleting a forum message
  • Grading messages in Forums
  • Moderating messages in a forum
  • Emailing forum message authors
• Miscellaneous
  • Linking to a message in Forums
  • The WYSIWYG editor
  • The Citation Editor Integration feature

The least you need to know (PDF)

• Discussion Forums (for students)
• Forums: Discussion Forums (for instructors)

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