In a forum, you can start new discussion topics that you and your students can both post to. Depending on the forum type you’ve selected, your students may be able to start discussion topics as well. Once a discussion is started, you and your students can both post responses to each other’s comments.
- From your course page, click on the Forum (
) to go to the forum listing. - If there are no discussion topics yet, you’ll need to create one. Click
. - Enter a
and a 
. You can use the 
drop-down to select whether you’re notified about new posts in the discussion thread, and you can drag and drop files to the 
area to add them to the topic. - Click
when done. You will have thirty minutes to edit the discussion topic you posted. - Once discussion topics are posted, you will see them listed along with the name of the person who started them, the number of replies there have been, and the time of last post. Click the topic’s name in the
column to see the posts in that thread. - Once viewing the discussion, you will see users’ individual posts. To reply to someone’s post, click the
link to the lower-right of the post and enter a message the same way you would when starting a discussion.