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.

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