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Enable Nested View in a Forum

Learn how to change the forum view to nested discussion view

Updated over 7 months ago

Purpose

This article demonstrates how to enable the Experimental Nested Discussion View for forum activities. This offers a different visual representation of the forum pages which may be highly desirable for some users

Procedures

  1. In Moodle, click on your profile icon at the top right of the browser window and select Preferences

    Dropdown menu with Preferences highlighted

  2. In the User Account section, click on the Forum Preferences link

    List of options with Forum preferences highlighted


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  3. Change the Use experimental nested discussion view setting to Yes

    Dropdown menu with Yes option highlighted

  4. Click on Save Changes.

Now, when reading a forum post, you will have the option to change to this view in the dropdown menu found at the top of a discussion post.

Dropdown menu with experimental nested form option available

Example: Experimental Nested Discussion View

View of stacked forum posts

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