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Creating a Discussion Forum (Classic)

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For many faculty, this is one time required process. You can keep all your discussion topics in the same forum. Or you can make one forum for whole class discussions and one for small group discussions.

Get to the Discussions tool

Navigate to the "Course Admin" page, then select the "Discussions" button

Create the Discussion Forum

In the "Discussions" page, select the "New" button to open the creation drop down menu, and select the "New Forum" button

The "Discussions" page, with the "New" drop down menu button highlighted, and the creation drop down menu opened, with the "New Forum" button highlighted

The "New Forum Details" page will open. This contains the "Title" textbox that allows you to give the forum a title

The "New Forum Details" page with the "Title" text box highlighted

Don't select the "Create a new topic in this forum with the same title" checkbox. It is better to make a new topic after we create the forum.

Best practice is to leave the rest of this page set at the default. All other setting will be configured during the creation of the Discussion Topic.

Select the "Save and Close" button

Now you are ready to create a Discussion Topic.

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