2. Choose a new name for the discussion thread—I'm going to call mine "Nuclear power: Is the poster balanced?". When you've chosen a new title press the Split button.

3. You've now created a new discussion thread, and both discussions are now much easier to follow:

Managing forums in Moodle is all about making discussions easy to follow, and easy to refer back to later on. But we've just seen how managing discussions is very easy—it's one of the advantages of moving your courses online.

Now we've learned pretty much all there is to know about Moodle's Standard forum for general use. But that kind of forum doesn't fit every kind of discussion or debate you might want to hold online. But that's no problem because Moodle provides four different flavors of forum.