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Use forums to organize your discussion topics into categories. Your course can have multiple forums and topics, but you must create a forum before you can create a topic since all topics belong to forums.
Steps
1. In the navbar, locate and click Discussions.
2. On the Discussions List page, click New
3. From the drop-down menu that appears, click New Forum.
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4. Enter a title for your new forum.
5. Enter a description for your new forum.
6. In the Options section, select any of the following check boxes:
- Allow anonymous posts - To enable users to post anonymously.
- A moderator must approve individual posts before they display in the forum - To ensure that posts are approved by a moderator before they display in the forum.
- Users must start a thread before they can read and reply to other threads in each topic - To ensure user participation.
- Display forum descriptions in topics - To provide instructors the option to display a discussion forum description within a discussion topic description.
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7. Click the Restrictions tab.
8. In the Availability section, select Visibility options for your forum.
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