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Welcome! In this video tutorial  we would like
to show you how

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you can create and use  moodle forums.

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Whenever a course has been created, an activity
named "Kurs-Nachrichten"

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will automatically be created as well.  You
have probably seen this forum

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when you first came in contact with moodle
@ HTW Berlin.

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Only the instructors are allowed   to start/post
topics in this forum,

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communicating with their students  important
information.

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A particular feature of this forum  is the
subscription mode, which

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is automatically set as forced. This means
that whenever you

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post a new message, an email will  be send
to the students to inform

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them about the content of the message. This
is the reason why "Kurs-Nachrichten"

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is not suitable for discussions and answering
questions to the students.

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If you want to allow students to  post questions,
discuss and

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help each other, you can add  a standard forum
to the course.

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As always, turn first the editing on and then
click on

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"Add an activity or resource"  in the preffered
course section.

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Choose the forum activity from the list and
confirm your choice

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by clicking the button "Add".

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In our test course we would need to create
a new forum

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where students could ask and  answer questions.

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We name the forum therefore "Exchange Area".
We also write

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a description, that students could discuss
and answer questions.

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We check the box below the description,  so
that it would appear on the

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main course page.

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We leave all further settings  set to the standard
and click

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on "Save and return to course".

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The students are now able to start discussions.

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Anna Teststudentin -our test student-  asks
a question about the exam.

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All course participants can now  read and reply
to the question

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and also begin new topics.

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If you need any further help,  please don't
hesitate to contact us

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or to watch the other video tutorials from
our moodle video series.