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Use this page to administer forums to allow users to converse and provide feedback.  
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Forums can be created in Insight for parents to use. Threads are created by staff or admin at the school. Parents are allowed to post replies to these threads. For more information about creating forums, see the [[manage forums]] page. <br> <br>
  
To add a forum, click on the "Add" button.
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To edit an existing forum, select the forum form the list and click the "Edit" button.
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Users can click on a thread to open it. New topics and posts can be added by any users with the relevant [[role options]]. <br> <br>
  
A forum will need a title and a description.  You can set a forums visibility to off which hides it and all related posts completely, but obviously for a new forum you would want this on.  Similarly a locked forum can be viewed but not added to, so again this should be off for new forums.
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Only non-administrative users can add topics to a forum, by adding a new post to the forum.
 
  
If you need to start a topic, you will need to create an ad-hoc non-administrative user for this purpose.
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Latest revision as of 13:06, 6 June 2016

Forums can be created in Insight for parents to use. Threads are created by staff or admin at the school. Parents are allowed to post replies to these threads. For more information about creating forums, see the manage forums page.

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Users can click on a thread to open it. New topics and posts can be added by any users with the relevant role options.

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