Forums

There are many different ways you can use forums with your students in Moodle.

1 -Create one forum for a unit and post multiple forum questions that students reply to throughout the course of the unit. You can assign a grade to each post and grade it directly in Moodle. Everyone can see everyone else’s response.

3 – If you don’t want students to see others’ responses before they answer, choose Q&A.

2 – Create a forum for a specific assignment but students can only respond within their class periods. Create the forum so that it is Separate Groups (setting near the bottom). I have students separated into groups based on when they have me throughout the day. It’s a little easier to control. Remember: you will need to create a new questions for each class. Check to make sure the drop down menu for groups is at the top of the forum updating page.

3 – For the student research papers, they are able to choose their own topic. I created a forum for each topic. Within that forum, each topic has it’s own questions for students to reply to. That way, students can see what others have done who have the same topic as they do, but are in different classes.

4 – Watch a video, respond on forum, respond to what others say. This is a great way to teach students digital citizenship and how to respond to each other academically and appropriately.

5 – Create a forum. Within the forum add a picture of art, a link to an outside article, a quote, or a link to video. Then, have students post responses to your media and also to respond to each other.

Check out my screencast on creating a simple forum for your Moodle Course!