Using Forum for practice or assessment

Forum enables you to implement task-oriented discussion. For example, in a course about convection learners are given the following task:

Imagine that your are asked to train a newcomer about detecting severe thunderstorms on satellite images. What would you teach? What are the most important features to look for which indicate a severe thunderstorm?

This activity is delivered using Q&A Forum, which has unique structure. Learners will be able to see how others have reacted to that same task only after posting their own answer. In this case, learners are not biased by other inputs to the forum. They are more likely to come up with original ideas.

Additional tips for using Q&A Forum

• Even if users are subscribed to this Forum, they will receive notifications only after posting their answer.

• Students are not allowed to add new questions in a Q&A Forum. By default, only teachers and managers see the "add a new question" button. If you wish students to be able to add new questions, they need to be given the capability mod/forum:addquestion.