View and Reply to Forum Topic Posts

You can view forum topics and their posts from the Knowledge Center for courses that have forums enabled in their module properties. You can view and reply to posts and subscribe to forums to receive a daily email with updates, such as new posts.

To access forums from the Knowledge Center, your system role must have at least read-only access to the Knowledge Center feature in System Roles (Learner-oriented Features > Learn Features), and unrestricted access to the Forum feature (Learner-oriented Features > Communicate Features).

To view and reply to forum topic posts

1. Go to Home > Teach and select a Teach page tab. The Teach page opens at the selected tab.
2. Filter the sessions list, if required.
3. Select Launch Knowledge Center from a session's action menu. The Knowledge Center opens.
4. Click Forum. The forum category assigned to the course is listed.
5. Click the forum category title. The forum category opens in a new window and lists the forums assigned to it.
6. Click the name of the forum you want to view. The forum topics are listed in order of recency: topics with the most recently added posts are shown first.
7. Click a topic name to view its post and any replies.
8. To reply to a topic post or one or its replies, click Reply under it.

Additional Information

About the Knowledge Center

About Moderating Forums

Create a New Forum Topic

Delete a Forum Topic or Reply

Create a Discussion Forum

Edit a Forum from the Knowledge Center

Update Forum Permissions

Delete a Forum from the Knowledge Center