Discussion forums provide an outstanding platform for building online relational community. Your E-Church Essentials discussion forums can be used to post and discuss job openings, classified ads, sermon notes, theology...the only limit to the topics and number of discussion categories is your imagination.
A discussion forum is similar to a chat room. However, a discussion forum provides accountability by tracking who makes each discussion post. In addition, participants are able to "subscribe" to a discussion forum by simply selecting a subscription checkbox associated with a forum. Once a participant subscribes to a forum, they will be instantly notified via email whenever a new post is made to the forum, and will be able to use our quick login feature to actively participate in the discussion.
E-Church Essentials offers your ministry the ability to create discussion forums in seconds.
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Select the link or image to view a screen shot of an actual discussion forum. Note the subscription checkbox located in the top left of the forum. Selecting this checkbox activates the auto-notification feature that permits discussion participants to participate in the discussion via their email address. |
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| Participant Profile [PDF] GET PDF READER |
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By selecting the photo image associated with a discussion forum post, discussion participants can learn more about the people they are interacting with. A participant's permission-level determines how much information they are able to view. Select the image or link to view a PDF sample (Content is displayed in administrator mode). |
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E-Church Essential discussion forums provide full moderator control, enabling your ministry's leadership to delete any inappropriate discussion posts, as well as any inappropriate or "dead" discussion threads or forum categories.
Available discussion forum formats include:
- General Access Forums - available to all registered members
- Staff-Only Forums - available and viewable to members with staff privileges
- Team Forums, also known as Team Meeting Rooms - available and viewable to team members only (See Also: Team Building)
- Virtual Classroom Forums - automatically generated whenever your ministry creates an e-learning course...participation is restricted to registered students and course mentors (See Also: E-Learning)
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