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'''Title of script''': Creating Forum

'''Author: K.Sridhar and B.Abirami'''

'''Keywords: forum'''


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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.0139in solid #000000;border-left:0.0139in solid #000000;border-right:0.0139in solid #000000;padding:0.0382in;"| Welcome to Spoken-tutorial . In the coming few minutes we will talk on how to create a forum.




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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.0139in solid #000000;border-left:0.0139in solid #000000;border-right:0.0139in solid #000000;padding:0.0382in;"| To start building your course let us start writing a news item .The news forum is a special type of forum which is started when the course is first generated . It is E-Mailed to all the people present in the course .




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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.0139in solid #000000;border-left:0.0139in solid #000000;border-right:0.0139in solid #000000;padding:0.0382in;"| To add a news item:

&nbsp;Click the News Forum link near the top of your course page.

&nbsp;Click the “Add a new topic” button. You’ll see the page to add a new topic . Add the subject as “Architecture of 8086” and in the message box type out the description of it . Students who have doubts in the topic can specify parts of your forum in the further discussions for clarification.




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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.0139in solid #000000;border-left:0.0139in solid #000000;border-right:0.0139in solid #000000;padding:0.0382in;"| Type your new message to your class.

&nbsp;Click the “Save changes” button. You will be returned to the News Forum page.




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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.0139in solid #000000;border-left:0.0139in solid #000000;border-right:0.0139in solid #000000;padding:0.0382in;"| Click on your course name in the navigation bar at the top to return to your course page.




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| style="border-top:none;border-bottom:0.0139in solid #000000;border-left:0.0139in solid #000000;border-right:0.0139in solid #000000;padding:0.0382in;"| Spoken Tutorials are part of Talk to a Teacher. Supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India. More information:
http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro   
This tutorial has been created by Mr.Sridhar and Mrs.Abirami from SASTRA university .
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