How to use Forums in Student Cafe Video

This video demonstrates how to use the forums feature in Student Cafe to participate in online discussions. It covers viewing available forums, distinguishing between class forums and custom group forums, creating new threads, managing permissions for comments, adding posts with attachments, and interacting with existing threads through replies and quotes. The session concludes with an example of responding to a classmate’s post in a forum.

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00:00 - Introduction to forums in Student Cafe
00:12 - Navigating to discussion forums
00:24 - Viewing available forums and setup options
00:42 - Types of forums: class vs custom group
01:07 - Example: Student Leadership Committee forum
01:18 - Opening a forum and viewing threads
01:42 - Creating a new thread and setting permissions
02:22 - Adding a post with an attachment
03:07 - Returning to forum list and opening a class forum
03:19 - Exploring forum threads
03:48 - Replying to posts: options explained
04:45 - Quoting and replying to a post
05:03 - Editing quoted text and adding comments
05:42 - Saving and viewing quoted reply
05:55 - Session wrap-up

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