People often ask me to name my favorite online teaching tool. My answer is always the same: Hands down, it’s online discussion forums. As a veteran online teacher, I view discussion forums as the meat ...

Google is rolling out a new addition to search results that highlights what people are saying about a topic in online discussions and forums. Announced today at Google’s ‘Search On’ virtual event, the ...

The video gives an overview of how discussions forums can be used in online teaching and with groups. Note: this video is based on Moodle 3.5 though much of the explanations relate to the updated 3.9.

The discussion boards are a very powerful feature of Bleeping Computer. These boards allow you to post questions or answers, share information, or just chat with your fellow members. If you have a ...

Forum-based online teaching to improve student engagement and motivation Teachers can break down a relatively large class into small groups of four to five students. Students should always be ...

Providing a supportive learning culture for students will make them less likely to cheat – and discussion forums, with a few tweaks, may be the way to do it Like many educators, I have revisited ...

Discussions in Brightspace consist of forums, topics, and threads; threads are further broken down into posts and replies. An example of this structure might look like a “Weekly Reading Reflections” ...

Google has had these discussion carousels for the past couple of years. Now Google also spotted a "conversations" box and also a "discussions and forums" box in Google Search. These primarily bring up ...

Chat rooms and forums are both methods to communicate with other people over the Internet, but are used in different ways. Whereas chat rooms allow you to communicate with people in real time, forums ...