Moodle/C2/Forum-for-a-Moodle-Course/English
Title of the script: Moodle 4.5 – Forum for a Moodle Course
Author: Nancy Varkey
Keywords: moodle, moodle lms, lms, learning management system, educational lms, open-source lms, course management, teacher profile, content organization, forum creation, discussion forums, Moodle activities
| Visual Cues | Narration |
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| Slide: Title | Welcome to this Spoken Tutorial on Moodle 4.5 - Forum for a Moodle Course. |
| Slide: Learning Objectives | In this tutorial, we will learn:
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| Slide: Target Audience | This tutorial is intended for teachers who want to create a discussion forum for a course in Moodle. |
| Slide: System Requirements
This tutorial is recorded using:
You can use any OS or web browser of your choice. |
Recorded with Ubuntu, Moodle 4.5, and Firefox.
Use any OS or web browser of your choice. |
| Slide: Prerequisites
To follow this tutorial, you should have:
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Here are the prerequisites to learn this video. |
| Point to the user icon | We are logged in as teacher Nitya Jeevan. |
| Screen: Moodle Course Page | Let us now learn how to create a discussion forum for students of a course. |
| Slide | Let us first understand what a Forum is.
A Forum in Moodle is an activity that allows the teachers and the students to have asynchronous discussions. It helps students and teachers to communicate, ask questions, and share ideas. |
| Click on My courses → Calculus | Click on My courses and Calculus. |
| Click on "Turn editing on" | First, turn editing on at the top right of the course page. |
| Basic Calculus → Add an activity or resource → Forum → Expand all | Below Basic Calculus, click Add an activity or resource and Forum.
Then click Expand all. |
| To add a forum, we only need to add a name and the discussion topic.
And we are good to go! However, there are many settings available which we will explore now. | |
| Forum Name: Introduce ourselves!
Description: Let’s say hello to everyone. |
In the Forum Name type “Introduce ourselves!”
In Description, type “Let’s say hello to everyone.” |
| Check Display description on course page | Check Display description on course page checkbox. |
| Click Forum Types | Click Forum Types to view all the options.
The default is the Standard forum for general use. A single simple discussion is where the teacher starts a topic and the students can respond. |
| Click the question mark icon | Click the question mark icon to know more about the different types of forums. |
| Show settings – Availability and Attachments and word count | Configure Availability and Attachments and word count settings as required. |
| Subscription settings → select Forced subscription | For Subscription settings, it is advisable to select Forced subscription. |
| Show Ratings section → select Count of ratings | Scroll to the Ratings section.
Here you can enable ratings to assess student participation. |
| Enable "Send content change notification" | Enable Send content change notification.
This notifies all the participants that the forum activity has been updated. |
| Click "Save and display the forum" | Click Save and display. The new forum post is now added to the course. |
| Click Reply → "I am your teacher for the Calculus course. To know more about me, read my profile info" → click Post to forum | To continue the discussion, click Reply.
Type your response and click Post to forum. |
| Screen: Forum discussion posted | Your post appears under the forum with the date-time stamp.
Other participants can now reply and rate. |
| Slide: Summary
To summarise, we learnt:
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Here is the summary of this tutorial. |
| Slide: Assignment
As an assignment, create a new forum in the Calculus course and post the following message: “Refer to this link, where they have also listed the evolutes of some common curves: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Evolute.html” |
We encourage you to try out this assignment. |
| Slide: Acknowledgement
Domain Expert: Nancy Varkey |
This tutorial is brought to you by EduPyramids Educational Service, SINE, IIT Bombay.
Thank you for watching! |
