Available for communities: from version 3.1
Current release: version 3.2
Forum discussions are a great way to increase the involvement of visitors to your site.
Participants can share ideas and discuss issues with their peers or those that share common interests. Forum discussions, unlike chat can be carried out in different time frames as each forum posting remains available on so visitors to the site (or community members) can view and respond to posts when they next visit the virtual project office.
In a community environment, forums are used for individuals with similar interests to network, plan and discuss ideas and outcomes. Some communities are available only to logged in members. These communities can be used for general interest or as a virtual project office where members have a workspace to share information and resources. Where individuals are located in different geographical areas, forums can be an important tool to facilitate discussion between members or work groups.
Where a participant is a recognised user they may edit and delete their own postings.
Site administrators and community facilitators can add, delete and modify forums. Participants can then post topics or respond to messages in these forums. Administrators and community facilitators can moderate forum messages.
