One of the most important tasks that you face when managing a forum is determining which students are participating and which are not. Moodle gives you several ways to get this information.
Moodle's log files can tell you who has participated in an activity. We will look at how useful log files are in determining which students have posted to a forum.
In order to view the list of students who have posted to a forum, follow these steps:
Enter the course for which you want the report.
From the Administration block, select Reports.
Under Choose which logs to see, select the settings for the following:
Course: This will be set to the course you are in, but you can choose a different course.
Participants: Leave this set to All participants so that you see the log for all students in the course.
Dates: To see who has ever posted to a forum, leave this set to All days.
Activity: In this case, it is the forum named Using...