Forums on Moodle can have tracking activated, which means that students will be notified of new posts. There are three main types of tracking:
- Forced subscription – everyone in the course is subscribed for the forum and they cannot unsubscribe
- Auto subscription – everyone in the course is subscribed for the forum but they can unsubscribe
- Optional subscription – no one is subscribed to the forum, but they can subscribe
There are two ways to subscribed to a forum that allows subscription:
- Through the button under the forum’s description to track all threads (1)
- Through a button on the right of a thread to track just this thread (2)
