Using the news forum to send notifications

Moodle offers several ways to send email announcements to a class. You can use the People block to select people in your class and send them a message. Also, when you want to send a message to everyone in a class, you can use the default News Forum that is automatically added to every class. By default, in the News Forum, Subscription mode is set to Forced subscription. Also, only teachers have the ability to post messages in the forum.

When the teacher posts a message in the class's News Forum, everyone who is subscribed to the Forum receives the message. With everyone subscribed, the entire class will receive a copy of each posting.

As News Forum is unique for all other forums, it should not be ...

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