/Setting Up the Environment/Creating forums

Title of script: Creating Forum

Author: K.Sridhar and B.Abirami

Keywords: forum

Visual Clue	Narration
Switch to slide no 1	Welcome to Spoken-tutorial . In the coming few minutes we will talk on how to create a forum.
Switch to slide 2	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 .
Switch to slide 3	To add a news item: Click the News Forum link near the top of your course page. 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.
Switch to slide 4	Type your new message to your class. Click the “Save changes” button. You will be returned to the News Forum page.
Switch to slide 5	Click on your course name in the navigation bar at the top to return to your course page.
Switch to slide 6	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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