Students Faq - general technical problems

How to use a forum

With forums, all students can start new discussions, view all posts and reply to them by default.

Note: The "Main Course Forum" is automatically part of all courses.

It is recommended for important news or questions about the course. Both teachers and students can post here.

All course participants will receive an email about the posts, so make sure that you only post here regarding topics the whole class is interested in.

How to use it

Subscription generally means email messages. If you are subscribed to a forum, you get an email regarding all posts.
You can subscribe just for discussions as well - it means emails are sent for only that particular discussion.

Advanced: need to be selected if you would like to attach a file or if you would like to send the notification email immediately (otherwise it happens with a 30 minute delay).

All information at Moodle.org

Details about emails from forums

1. If your professor did not prevent it, you can unsubscribe from any particular forum, or single forum discussion if you open it, with "unsubscribe from this forum" (or unsubscribe from this discussion). See above

Usually you can not do it with the "main course forum" as this is dedicated for important messages.

2. In general, if you would like to receive less email messages from forums, you can change your settings for all forums on the site

(Top right > Preferences > forum)
Direct link: https://ceulearning.ceu.edu/user/forum.php

a) Forum auto-subscribe: If you select Yes, once you’ve posted to any Moodle forum you’ll be subscribed to that discussion and notified of all posts to it.

b) Forum tracking: If you select Yes, Moodle will highlight posts that you haven’t yet read.

c) Email digest type:

You can change to digest mode (daily email) - only one email a day, in a digest.

This is useful because you only get one email a day
It only comes once a day (around 5-5.30 pm) so any messages which require immediate action may be received too late (e.g., last minute cancellation of a lecture).

Warning: if you regularly delete or place messages from Moodle to spam, MS may put them into spam automatically.