Time for action – subscribing users to a forum
Return to your course front page and, with editing turned on, click on the update icon next to the forum:
Scroll down to the Subscription mode setting. Click on the drop-down menu to reveal your options:
The options are fairly self-explanatory, but to force everyone to always receive an e-mail every time someone makes a post, choose Forced subscription. If you want to allow your students to unsubscribe (they may complain about getting too many e-mails) then select Auto subscription. Make your subscription selection from the list, scroll down the page and press the Save and return to course button.
That's it. You're done!
What just happened?
We've just configured our forum so that students will receive an e-mail every time a new discussion thread is started. I've forced this so that there should be no excuse from my students for missing an important discussion taking place in the forum. At the start of your course you could force users to be subscribed...
