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To add a Forum activity to your design, just drag and drop the activity in the authoring canvas and double click on it to set it up.
Forum Content
On the Basic or Content tab, you are able to set:
Title Make sure you use a meaningful title that summarises what the students are meant to do.
Instructions Add general instructions about how to answer the forum.
Topics or discussion threads
The topics section is where you can add the discussion threads.
Adding discussion threads/topics
When adding a discussion topic or thread, these must have a subject and a body.
The body can include all media using the rich text editor.
Alternatively, you can also add file attachments to the posting.
Advanced Settings
Allow learners to use rich text editor: when this option is on, then students are able to create responses that include rich text formatting in their postings.
Allow learners to add attachments: when enabled, students are able to add attachments to their postings.
Allow learners to change their own postings: if enabled, after students have submitted a posting, they can go back and modify their posting and resubmit their changes.
Enabled anonymous posts: when enabled, students can opt to submit their posting anonymously or using their own name.
Minimum number of characters per posting: set a minumun number of characters within a posting.
Maximum number of characters per posting: set a maximum number of characters within a posting.
Allow learners to rate each other's postings: when this option is enable, students will be able to rate each others' postings with 1 to 5 starts. Additionally you can set up a minimum and/or maximum number of ratings that the students need to do before completing the forum activity.
Posting limitations
You can restrict the number of postings in two distinctive ways:
Allow learners to create new topics: when enabled students are free to create new discussion threads at will -and not limited by the threads you create as teacher.
Number of posts per learner per thread: set a number of minimum and maximum number of posting that each student has to do before completing the forum activity.
Notifications
You can set up notifications for new postings to be sent to students and teachers:
Learning Outcomes
Mapping learning outcomes to activities is very useful for curriculum mapping.
As with all activities in LAMS, you can map your learning outcomes to this activity. If you want to add a learning outcome, just search for the particular outcome or type a new one it will be added to your list of learning outcomes for the future.
You can search Learning Outcomes by code or name.
Reflection and End of Activity
As in all LAMS activities, you are able to get your students to reflect on the activity as soon as they finish. This is an important part of learning and research shows that it is when we reflect upon what we just learn that long lasting learning forms.
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