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Communicate and collaborate with forums guide

Explore how to use the different types of Moodle forums for communication and collaboration.

Whole Forum Summary

Generate a report that shows a snapshot of everyone's contribution to all forums on a module or to a particular forum. You can see the number of discussions, replies, attachments and views each person (staff and student) on the module has generated.

  1. Open the Forum activity.
  2. Select Reports from the contextual navigation menu above the module name.

Forum settings menu

  1. From the Forum selected drop-down menu on the left of the screen, select any forum or all forums in the course to build a report.
  2. From the Dates menu, set a date range for the report, or leave unselected to show data from all dates.
  3. If there are group forums, select the relevant group/s from Groups.
  4. The summary report displays for every participant:
    • the number of discussions posted
    • Number of replies posted
    • Number of attachments
    • Number of views
    • Word count
    • Character count
    • Earliest post
    • Most recent post
  5.  Select a format from Download table data as -  .csv, .xlsx, HTML, .json, .ods, .pdf
  6. Select Download and your file will download.
  7. Select any contributor to the forum and send a message to them. For example, message any students who have not contributed to a forum via the Summary report.
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