START HERE -----> Inserting ACTIVITIES for student engagement
2. Inserting Forums to create conversations
This video and the text underneath it explain how you can set up a discussion forum for your learners.
Video tutorial
Discussing learning with others and sharing in the building of knowledge helps us progress. Moodle offers several types of forum a teacher can add to enhance learning. As a teacher you can also 'pin' posts to the top of a thread to keep them visible and you can 'lock' them if nobody has posted after a certain time.
Forums are added by turning on the editing and clicking Add an activity or resource in the section you want the forum. You can have more than one forum in your course and more than one type of forum.
When you have named and described your forum you choose its type. The standard type allows users to start their own discussions. Clicking the ? help icon will provide information on the other types. Amongst other settings, you can allow learners to attach files and you can rate their posts.