Yes, I have a forum called SciTechChat where I post an interesting news article and one question around twice per week. I mandate a reply from the other students in the class and have appointed some students to moderate and grade these posts. I have done this by clicking on the topic settings > rights then making moderators 'Teachers' for just this learning object. This has worked really well with even a couple of wags grading my questions. ;-)
<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 26/07/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stephen Digby</b> <<a href="mailto:digby.stephen.p@edumail.vic.gov.au">digby.stephen.p@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Just create a standard forum and set it so that everyone in subscribed forever. All forum posts from anyone
<br>will then be "news" to all course members.<br><br>====================================================<br>Stephen Digby, Learning Technology Manager<br>mailto: <a href="mailto:admin@cheltsec.vic.edu.au">admin@cheltsec.vic.edu.au
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<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au">moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au">moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] On Behalf Of Alan Oh
<br>Sent: Thursday, 26 July 2007 4:28 PM<br>To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List<br>Subject: [Moodle] News Forum within a course<br><br>Hello moodlers.<br><br>I have a requirement where in a course, I would like to create a News Forum where students can respond/reply
<br>to.<br><br>I searched through the moodle doco and there was some information that these News Forums are only available<br>for Teachers/Admin to reply to only.<br><br>Is there a way around this?<br><br>Regards<br>ALan<br>
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