 Forums allow participants to have discussions that take place over an extended period of time as opposed to chats which are time restricted. To create a forum select turn editing on, select add an activity or resource, select forum and add. Name your forum. Provide a description for your forum if you wish to do so. There are various different types of forums that you can choose from. Select your forum type from the drop-down menu. A single simple discussion forum is when one topic is discussed that everyone can answer. Each person posts one discussion forums allow a participant to post a discussion to which everyone can reply. Question and answer forums ensure that students must post their perspective before viewing the posts of other users. Standard forum displayed in a blog-like format means that any participant can start a discussion and all topics will be loaded into one page. A standard forum for general use is when any participant can start a new topic. Let's select standard forum for general use. Should you wish to do so you can place a limit on the attachment size and number of attach that participants can post. You can also choose whether or not to automatically subscribe all participants to the forum. Selecting for subscription will ensure that all participants are automatically subscribed to the forum. There are additional settings you can use to personalize your forum should you wish to do so. Once you're happy with the settings you have selected scroll to the bottom of the screen and select save and return to course. Your forum now appears within the course. When the forum is selected you have the option to add a new discussion topic.