#  Working with Forums 





## Index

1. [Forum Home Page](/computer-technical/working-with-forums.html#forum-home-page)
2. [Discussion Page](/computer-technical/working-with-forums.html#discussion-page)





Forum discussions are a great way to have an online conversation. Here's how they work in the Learning Center.

You have the following options:

- Reading
- Searching
- Subscribing/following (on the forum level or a single discussion)
- Replying to a discussion post, and
- Starting a new discussion
 
Each forum can have discussions. Each discussion is made up of messages (an initial post and replies).

### Forum Home Page

We have a typical forum home page below with some markings to help identify things:

- Search - red arrow (upper left) - searches all forums in a course
- Add a new discussion - turquoise arrow (next to search)
- View a discussion - blue arrow (Discussion column)
- Subscribe / unsubscribe - orange circles:
    - Subscribe to forum button - whole forum
    - On/Off slider switch - just that discussion
 
![](/images/help/system/forum-overview-highlights-2023-800w.jpg)

The **Subscribe to forum** button switches to **Unsubscribe from forum** after you subscribe to a forum. Use that button to unsubscribe.

 

### Discussion Page

Below is a discussion page.

You can:

- Navigate to different discussions (blue double arrow).
- Subscribe to and star the discussion (orange circle). You can also undo these in the same settings dropdown menu.
- add a reply by clicking the reply at the bottom of the initial post (red arrow). Note that all replies also have a **reply** link at the bottom of their messages so that you can insert your reply where it makes the most sense.
 
![forum discusssion page with controls highlighted](/images/help/system/forum-discussion-page-2023-800w.jpg)

 

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