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Email: Manage Emails from Forums

When there is lots of discussion in a learning event, you may want to manage the "flow". You can set up a filter on your email program, or you can change your Forum Preferences in Moodle.

It is NOT recommended to 'unsubscribe' from a forum as you could miss important messages and information. Instead, manage the flow of emails by choosing an email digest.

A digest will send you one email with all the forum posts made in a day. You will not receive an email if there are no new posts.

To change your Forum Preferences:

Go to your Profile and click the small arrow beside your profile picture to drop down a menu.
Click on 'Preferences.'
Select 'Forum Preferences' under 'User Account.'
In the email digest type drop-down, choose the option 'Complete (daily email with full posts).'
Scroll down the page and save your changes (without changing any of the other settings).

To change back to 'No digest (single email per forum post),' or to 'unsubscribe,' follow the steps above making your choice in step 4.

NOTE: If you decide to 'unsubscribe', you will need to log in daily in order to find and read any new posts.

Emails: Responding to forum emails

When you use Moodle, you receive emails when your trainer posts to a forum in a learning event, when someone replies to a forum post, or when someone sends you a private message.

The email messages look something like this:

If you try to reply to the message, from your email program, you'll get a "Do Not Reply" message and your message will not be delivered as you planned.

To respond to an email from a forum posting

Select "Reply" from the bottom of the forum message email. This will take you into forum in Moodle, although you may have to log in first.
Reply to the message from the discussion forum so your response can be seen by others who are part of that forum.
Use the "see this post in context" link to read the entire topic thread before deciding whether or not to respond.

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