About Forums

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Forum Permissions
Accessing Forums
Banning Participants
Customising the Forum Page Title and Message
Disabling Forum Notifications
Student and Staff Photos in Forums
HTML Content in Forums
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Forums allow schools to provide highly-moderated, safe and friendly online environments in which students can interact with each other and their teachers. Forums are typically used for assessments, event planning or general discussions.

Forum Permissions

See: Forum Permissions

Accessing Forums

Forums can be created and managed through the 'Teaching workspace' under 'Forums'. Teachers can also create Forums for their assessments through their programmes under 'Overview of assessments'.

Banning Participants

Participants can be banned from a forum through the Forums page. Banning a participant will prevent them from viewing the forum.

When banning a participant, a reason can be entered. In addition, a pastoral care entry can be created (for students only). All comments (messages) posted by the participant can be deleted.

Customising the Forum Page Title and Message

The Application setting 'Forum message' can be used to set a message to display at the top of the Forum page in SEQTA Learn, SEQTA Engage and SEQTA Teach.

Disabling Forum Notifications

Forum notifications can be disabled on a forum by forum basis by selecting the forum and clicking the 'Suppress Notifications' button.

Student and Staff Photos in Forums

Any staff or student photos stored in SEQTA will automatically display in the Forums next to the student's messages.

HTML Content in Forums

The SEQTA forums editor provides the option of inserting HTML content. It may be noted that SEQTA's HTML editing is completely sand-boxed, rendering all JavaScript content, along with potential malware injection, isolated from escaping the box it's rendered inside.

Creating and Managing Forums