 Being able to discuss our learning with others helps us to progress and Moodle offers several different types of discussion forums for you as a teacher to enable your learners to do exactly that. To add a forum, we click the turn editing on button in our course or we scroll down in the administration block and click the turn editing on link. Then in the section where we'd like to add the forum, we click the link add an activity or resource. We can add several forums of several different types in our course, we don't only have to choose one. Clicking add an activity or resource brings up the activity chooser. Forum is an activity because students interact with it on the Moodle course. We can add it by clicking the button twice or by clicking it once and then clicking add at the bottom. There are a lot of settings for the forum but we only really need to give it a name, a description and then to save it. The name will be what the learners see on the course and the description, if chosen, may be displayed by checking the display description on course page box. We then choose the type of forum we want. The default is a standard forum which allows anyone to click a button to add a new discussion topic. However, if you click the drop down box, there are other types also. For example, a single simple discussion allows for the teacher to start a topic and all the learners can do is respond to that particular topic. If you want to know what the other forum types are, then clicking the question mark gives you the help and you can find out more. There are other settings which might be worth exploring. For example, you can decide the number and size of the attachments that you wish to allow your learners to attach. But all we now need to do, if we want to get started on our forum, is to scroll down and click save and return to course. And notice that as we add each activity and resource, they have their own icons. Different themes have different icons, but this is a quick way of allowing learners to see the kind of activity that they're going to.