—How can I manage my forum subscriptions?

What are forum subscriptions?

Forum subscriptions allow you to (via email) stay up-to-date with conversations in any given forum. 

When you subscribe to a forum, you will receive a notice (via email) for each post made to that forum. This can be desirable for keeping tabs on conversations or undesirable in a particularly busy forum.

Forum subscriptions are controlled by the following:

  • Your instructor may choose to make a forum’s subscription mandatory, automatic, optional, or disabled.
  • You may decide whether to be subscribed or not to a forum when given the option.

Recommended forum preferences

  • Email Digest Type: No Digest. This setting will ensure that you receive all essential messages within 15 minutes after someone posts or replies.
  • Forum auto-subscribe: No. Where applicable, this will require you to check the subscribe box as you reply to a post.
  • Forum Tracking: Yes. This will list the number of unread posts, so you can see where the new forum content is located.

How to verify your forum preferences

  1. Open the User Menu from the down-arrow located at the top-right of any Moodle page
  2. Click the Preferences link
  3. Under User Account, click the Forum preferences link
  4. Locate Email digest type and select No digest
  5. Scroll to the bottom of the page
  6. Click the Save Changes button to save your changes