Controlling access to Forums

Note: To complete the procedures in this document, you must be assigned a role having the necessary permissions. To determine your role, follow the directions in Participant roles. For a basic understanding of roles and permissions, see Permissions and roles: Overview.

In Forums, you can set permissions to control access while you're creating a new forum or topic (see Creating a new forum and topic in Forums), or when you're editing an existing forum or topic (see Revising or deleting a forum or topic).

Under "Permissions", you can modify permission levels for participant roles. To do so, from the list under "Permissions", select a role for editing by clicking its name. Then, next to "Permission Level:", use the drop-down list to select from several predefined permission levels. Additionally, you can create custom permission levels by clicking to enable or disable the following functions: