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Learn@Illinois Moodle - Changing Forum Subscription Settings

Learn how to change the settings to determine how/whether students get email notifications for forums. Make sure you pay special attention to the forum subscription settings when you create a forum in your course. Are posts to the forum frequent? Consider using "Auto" or "Optional" subscriptions so that students' inboxes won't be flooded. Are posts to a forum essential information and time-sensitive? Consider using "Forced" subscription.

For a permanent link to this information, please use: http://go.illinois.edu/MoodleManageEmail

  1. Click on the forum you would like to edit.
    A picture of the forum activity
  2. In the navigation menu, click the Subscriptions option.
    A picture of the navigation menu with a red box around subscriptions

  3. Next to "Subscription mode", click the drop-down menu to select how users will be subscribed to the forum. The choices are:
    • Optional subscription – Participants can choose whether or not to subscribe.
    • Forced subscription – Everyone is subscribed and cannot unsubscribe.
    • Auto subscription – Everyone is subscribed initially but can choose to unsubscribe at any time.
    • Subscription disabled – Subscriptions are not allowed.
      A picture of the subscription mode option with a red box around the drop down menu
  4. After making your selection your changes will be saved automatically. 

Related Topics

Moodle.org Documentation



Keywordsforums, email, emails, track, tracking, boost, change, subscribe, subscribing, unsubscribe, unsubscribing, setting, optional, forced, auto, disabled   Doc ID71349
OwnerATLAS-TLTGroupUniversity of Illinois LAS
Created2017-03-03 16:22:40Updated2023-10-20 09:00:26
SitesUniversity of Illinois Liberal Arts and Sciences
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