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to add the forum. On the “Adding a new forum” page, give the forum a descriptive name. Select the forum type you want to use. Write a descriptive forum introduction. Select the general options: Force everyone to be subscribed - If you select Yes, everyone in your course will automatically receive emails of new posts. Otherwise, people can choose whether to subscribe. Read tracking for this forum - Read tracking highlights unread forum posts. Maximum attachment size - When students attach files to their posts, you’ll want to limit the maximum size of their posts so you don’t use up all your server space. Select the grade options: Allow posts to be rated - Forum posts can be rated using either a numerical scale or a scale made up of words. By default, only teachers can rate forum posts, though you can use a role override to allow students to rate each others’ posts. This is a useful tool for giving students participation grades. Any ratings given in the forum are recorded in the gradebook. Grade - If you allow posts to be rated, you can choose a scale rating using the Grade drop-down menu. Click on "Save changes" once you are done. The forum will appear as a link on the course page. If you click on the forum name on the course page, you’ll see the main forum page. This page has a button for "Add a new discussion topic". Click the “Add a new discussion topic” button. On the new discussion topic page, give your new discussion a subject. Write your message in the space provided. You can choose to subscribe to the forum, if subscriptions were enabled, when the forum was created. If you want to attach a file, Browse for the file and click Open. Be sure your document is smaller than the maximum attachment size for the forum. Click the “Save changes” button. Once you submit your discussion topic, you’ll see a screen telling you the post was successfully saved and how long you have to make changes to your post before it’s mailed to the subscribers. The time you have to make changes is set by your system administrator for everyone on the Moodle site. The default is 30 minutes. You can add as many new discussion topics as required. They would appear as a table on your Forum page. Clicking on the dicussion topic from the focum page takes you on the discussion topic page. There are options to edit the post, reply to a post and delete a post. All replies would be visible on this discussion topic page.The replies can be made visible in differnt ways such as nested or oldest first etc. You can choose it from the drop-down menu given above.