In order to create a forum, click on the Control Panel link from the top navigation bar of the home page. You will see a new page with the title Dashboard. Here click on the link titled Add new forums, control permissions, etc. located under the heading Forums Administration to navigate to the Site Administration page.
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You can also access the Site Administration page by clicking on the Control Panel link and then selecting the Administration link from the navigation bar located at the top of the page.
You will now see a set of six links under the heading Forums as shown below:
Before creating the required forums on the site, you should first create relevant forum groups, so that you can file each forum under the appropriate group. Let us examine how to create the required groups for our sample forum.