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Claroline Forum
Using Forum
The Claroline forum (http://www.claroline.net/forum/) allows people to post ideas, opinions, and information in an organized way. Posts are organized in a way that makes it easy for people to find the information they are interested in, but without having to wade through unrelated information.
Postings are organized into three subdivisions:
Post - A post is a piece of information submitted by a single user. It may be a new post, which starts a new topic, or a reply to an existing post. Posts are typically a sentence, paragraph, or a few paragraphs.
Topic - A topic is a collection of posts. The posts are organized in chronological order. The idea of a topic is that there is a single post that contains the topic of discussion. The rest of the posts in the topic are replies to this first post and to other replies. Topics are sort of like conversations, allowing many people to state their opinions about an idea, or debate an issue.
Forum - A forum is a container for topics. Forums often have a general subject that the topics within are about. For instance, you might have a Bugs CLaroline 1.X forum, which would contain topics in which people would discuss about bugs.
Claroline have 5 groups of forum:
- Teaching: Teachers facing technical problems and Educational scenario
- Admin: Installation and configuration.
- Development: General add-on, translation, ...
- Multilingual: discuss in your favorite language.
- Bugs: Tell us what's wrong.
Navigating through posts in Forum is based on the idea of posts, topics and forums. Generally, a user will start at the Forum Index (http://www.claroline.net/forum/). The Forum Index shows a list of forums. If you click on one of the forums, you will be shown the View Forum page, which is a listing of the topics in the forum. By default they are sorted in chronological order by the most recent post in each topic. If you click on a topic, you will be shown the View Topic page, which is a listing of the posts in that topic. The posts in a topic are organized chronologically, with the oldest post first.
User Accounts
When a user is logged in, his/her username will be shown with each post he/she makes. Each user may also have some custom settings which allow them to control the look and feel of the board as they use it.
Registration
In order to log into the board as a user, you must register a username. To do this, click the small Register link (http://www.claroline.net/forum/profile.php?mode=register) at the top of any page.
Logging In
In order to post using your username and use your custom settings on the board, you must log in. To log in, you must use the small login form at the bottom of the Forum Index page.
Alternatively you may click the small Login link (http://www.claroline.net/forum/login.php) at the top of any page to be taken to the Login Page.
Posting
There are two primary ways to create a post. In the View Forum and View Topic pages, you may click New Topic. This will take you to the posting form, and, when you have posted, will create a new topic with your post as the first one in the topic. In the View Topic page, you may also click Reply. This will take you to the posting form, and, when you have posted, it will add your post to the topic you replied to. To reply to a specific post, you may also click the Quote button in the upper right corner of that post.
Posting Form
When you post a new topic or post a reply, you are taken to the posting form, where to enter your post.
Subject - The subject of your post. If this is a new post, the subject is required, and it will be the name of the topic. If the post is replying to another post, the subject is not required, but may be added, and will be shown at the top of the post.
Message Body - The Message body is a large text area where the body of your post is input. Plain text is the only thing allowed in this text area, but special formatting, links, smilies (emoticons), images, etc. may be added through the use of Smilies, BBCode and/or HTML (if they are enabled).
Searching
Claroline Forum has a search system (http://www.claroline.net/forum/search.php) that will allow you to find topics you are interested in. To get to the search page, click the small Search link at the top of any page.
