Features/Core capabilities
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The Discussions Forum allows users to participate in multiple discussions on the forum. Main features are:
create multiple discussion categories and have many discussions under each category.
post the questions, reply to posts, upvote or downvote posts
create topics, forum, groups, users and manage them
Tag categories and update privileges
The user will be able to edit and delete the topic and post
If the user once disables and enables the Discussion Forum the old topics and posts should not be there.
Once the user clicks the forum icon he would be able to see 3 tabs,
Categories
Tags
My Discussion
The below diagram explains the category & topics created for a Course & Batch. The same can be used for any other types like Group, Quiz, etc.
Category → It is like a container( can hold Sub-containers, Topics)
Topic → This will be always added to the container(Category, Sub-Category). This is a discussion topic/thread created within the category. Users can participate in the topic/discussion.
Post → This will be always added to the Topic. This is the user response/reply given for the discussion topic/thread. The user is participating in the topic by posting.