The Forums module is a feature of Activ that has been designed to facilitate internal communication and discussion. Once enabled, it allows you to create and maintain a series of Topics that can be used to (e.g.):
- Provide business and IMS-related updates to your employees.
- Present key information to your employees and provide a venue for related questions and answers.
- Present discussion points and maintain the responses within a single easy-to-review space.
- Prompt knowledge sharing to support ongoing training and development.
Individual Topics are assigned to one of a set of custom Categories (e.g. Health and Safety, Information Security, Training, etc), allowing you to keep your internal communications organised and making it simpler for you to find the pertinent information. In addition, Activ allows you to assign individual Topics to specific Teams (if the Teams module is enabled), and to alert specific users to relevant Topics to ensure that they view and participate in the communication. Finally, Topic creators and repliers can specify whether they wish to be alerted to future replies to Topics, and will receive automatic email notifications should they enable the feature. These alerts are applied to each Topic individually, allowing your users to ensure that they are only notified of responses to the most relevant communications.
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The Forums module has three tabs:
Home – presents a list of your available Categories and their associated descriptions. Each Category is presented on its own row alongside a count of the Topics it contains, and the details of the last Topic that received a reply.
Search – contains a register of all Topics that have been recorded within your system, and a series of filters to assist you in locating the Topic(s) that you wish to view.
Settings – this tab is available to Administrators only, and is used to configure your module’s Categories.
