# Monitor
The Forum monitoring interface allows you to **track participation, review contributions, and assess student engagement** across all discussion threads. It provides both **individual-level tracking and overall analytics**, helping you gain clear insights into how students are interacting with the activity.
## **Summary**
The summary provides an **overview of all students participation in the discussion**. It highlights each student’s level of engagement, including the number of posts, activity within the forum, and any marks awarded.
From a teaching perspective, this view allows you to **monitor discussions, moderate contributions, and assess student posts** directly within the forum environment.
All awarded **marks can be exported and used for grading or further analysis**, making it easy to incorporate forum participation into overall results.
### **View Forum**
In ‘view forum’ section, you can see the activity of the students which includes their posts and the replies.
**You can also participate in the discussion** with the students by replying or adding posts when needed.
### Assess and mark Posts
Further, you can mark the students contributions by clicking Mark button.
You can also **hide or edit students' posts** if you require it.
### **Marks**
To release the marks to the students, just click the Release Marks button. Similarly, you can download the marks too.
Students who have been given marks could be checked in the monitoring forum summary. To check, click on the ‘Mark’ button in the ‘Marked?’ column, a new window would appear with information such as marks and comments given by the teacher, the given marks can also be updated.
### **Advanced Settings**
The advanced settings shows the selected settings for the forum when the forum was created.
### Restrict access
The **Deadline** setting allows you to **define a specific date and time after which students can no longer access the activity**.
Once the deadline is reached, the activity becomes unavailable to all students, ensuring that activity are completed within the intended timeframe. This is particularly useful for timed activities where fairness and consistency in access are important.
**How it works:**
* You select a date and time using the calendar and time picker
* The system enforces this as a **hard cut-off point**
* After this moment, **students cannot enter or continue** the activity
**Why use a Deadline:**
* Ensures all students complete the activity within the same timeframe
* Supports fair and controlled conditions
* Helps manage pacing in both synchronous and asynchronous lessons
* Reduces the need for manual intervention to close access
This feature gives you precise control over activity availability, helping you maintain structure and integrity it.
This option enables the teachers to set the **deadline** for students after which they will not be allowed to submit the activity.
### Edit "Live" Activity
The **Editing “Live”** feature allows you to modify an forum's title and instructions while it is already in progress and accessible to students.
**Once the student's enter the activity, you won't be able to change the Forum's title and instructions.**
**However, you can still modify all threads** if you require -which can give you the required flexibility to do changes on the fly
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