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It this tutorial I will walk you through how to add a forum
on your Moodle course.
Make sure your editing is on. When it is on you will see "Add an activity or
resource. Click that link.
Then it shows you all the activities and resources you can add and you're gonna
look for forum and you will click the radio button
and hit add. It tells you about the different types of forums here.
We're going to do a standard forum.
Make sure you have included a significant name.
This'll be the link you see on the main page and you want your students to know exactly
what it's about.
For instance, I might have web 2.0 discussion forum.
That's the link my students would see.
This is where all your directions go. For instance, if you
were going to include a video of some kind you could embed it right here.
If you were going to include a podcast, if you're going to
include a document, you could link it here. Everything could be here.
This is where all the instructions go and it should include
grading criteria and when I say grading criteria, I mean broken-down. So if it's
worth 15 points, how do they get that fifteen points. You're going to
support student success by the grading criteria you put down.
Leave optional subscription. You will turn on reading tracking, so
click on.
That allows you to see which of the posts you've read & which you have not.
If you were having them attached something, you would probably increase
this unless it was a document because it won't weigh that much,
but you could go up to a hundred megabytes if you were doing a video or
something like that.
You can have them attach up to nine attachments.
I would limit that because you don't want them
attaching 9 attachments, that's crazy.
Threshold for blocking has to do with students who overpost.
You can set a limit on the number of times they can post.
I'll leave that because I don't typically see that problem but it is a
nice feature if you do.
I haven't created any grade categories, but in the gradebook, if I had
a forums category, I would
drop that down and put it under forum.
So I am going to grade this
and I will say it was worth 15 points. I will use maximum rating.
That means whatever that highest score I give will be the
rating/grade.
I said that it was worth fifteen points
in my instruction, so I'll say it's worth fifteen points now.
I am not going to set a date range, I will control that
from the main page of the course by hiding and showing my forum
You can have a visible, separate or no group. No group means whole group.
If you have a lot of students and you want a smaller group having some kind of
discussion, you can set a group up where they can either see each other but they
can't participate, that's a visible group,
or they can't see each other and they can't participate which is a separate group.
For visible, if it says "show", students can see the link. If it says "hide",
students cannot see the link. We don't need to worry about an I.D. number although you
include one if you wanted.
I'm not going to restrict any access. You can make this dependent on another
activity.
You could make a dependent on a grade.
If I wanted to
dropdown
one of these, let's say they had to take chapter one quiz and they had to
get either an eighty percent
before
they can participate. Usually you can have different types of
criteria like they completed it or whatever but you can
go ahead and set the criteria you want for grading criteria
and then what will happen is you can determine how they see that. They
can see it grayed out but they can actually click on until they've
met the criteria you've set or it can be hidden altogether until they've met
this criteria.
When you're done you can hit "save and return to course, and you'll
find your link on the main page.