Forma provides a global "Community Forums" feature, independent from course subscriptions, and featuring:
- Unlimited forums
- Forum moderation
- Notifications for new messages and threads
- Private threads
Activate Community Forums
You can activate / deactivate the community forums from the "Usera Area LMS" settings page:
Admin > Settings > Elearning Configuration > User Area LMS
You will be able to assign visibility over the whole community feature to:
- all the platorm users
- only selected users / nodes
The link will be visible in the frontend main menu
Forums
Create a Forum
Forums can be created by platform administrators
For each forum you can set:
- Title: the forum name
- Description: a description for this discussion board
- Emoticon Image: an icon to identify the forum
- Private threads: define whether all the discussions in this board should be private by default.
private discussion threads will be only visible to the user that opened the thread and forum moderators
Manage Forums
Here you can:
- Change the forums order
- Select users that will be able to see this forum
- Download the discussion board in excel format
Discussion threads
For each forum you can have unlimited discussion threads and messages
Add a new thread
Manage Threads
Manage Messages