Hello!
Here you can find a little guide to forums.
Check it out if you're a newbie!
Firstly, you should understand the difference between forums, subforums, topics and posts.
I'll give you an example:
Andrea wants to create a topic (a discussion thread) about a new interesting digital tool.
To do that, they will look for the Forum "Participants", click on the Sub-Forum "Gamification and digital tools" and finally open a new Topic by clicking on the "Add Topic" button.
As you can see, a forum is just a container for other sub-forums or topics.
So what's a topic then?
A topic contains all the comments, replies and thread to that subject.
Andrea created the topic "New digital tool".
Andrea (first thread): "Hi everyone, I found this incredible tool to [...]";
Camden replies (second thread): "Thank you Andrea. I think this tool is suitable for [...]
To make it even more simple, I'll share with you this file.
If you have questions, please feel free to reply to this post! 😉