Announcements forum
A special forum that is only for information to students.
Students cannot reply to posts and it has a forced subscription set by default, which is why they are normally informed of new posts by email.
If a Moodle course or a forum is set to "Hide", students will not receive e-mail notification messages when there are new posts. This is also the case if students have disabled emails to forums in their profile.
Moodle offers a number of other forums that you can create in your course.
Create an Announcements forum
The course generally does not contain an Announcements forum.
- If you want to add it, click "Settings" at the top in the menu bar under the course title.
- Under "Appearance" > "Number of announcements" select a value greater than 0 and save.
- The Announcements forum is automatically created in the top section.
Block "Latest announcements"
This block works only with the Announcements forum.