The Forum Domain is a curated selection of LMS data that enables you to create Reports on the forum participation records of your users. Relevant data in this Domain includes the specific forum names, posts, subjects, discussions, dates, and times of modification of posts by users in courses.

The Forum Domain is located in the Public folder in the Zoola™ Repository. To locate the Domain in either the Repository or the Data Chooser (when selecting a Domain to create an Ad Hoc View), navigate to Public > Moodle/Totara > Domains.

This Domain contains LMS data organized to report on the forum posts of users in your courses. Forum data consists of the name type, modified/created dates, subject, ID, and parent of posts, discussions, and forums. The available User and Course information included in this Domain can be used to structure these records by information from the learner and course profile information. Using fields and measures from the three sets included in this Domain, you can easily build out Reports and Views to capture and analyze forum participation and discussion trends throughout your course offerings.

The links along the right-hand side of this article will open the Detailed Forum Table View and the Forum Statistics Crosstab View, respectively. If you are logged in to Zoola™, these views will open in the Ad Hoc Editor. The left-hand View panel will display the contents of the Forum Domain, organized into sets of items (as both fields and measures).

All included sets are comprised of selections from the tables listed in the Moodle/Totara table, located at the end of the right-hand column.

Specifically, the Grades Domain is comprised of the following sets:

Course: Items (fields and measures) in the Course set provide naming and categorization data for your LMS courses.
User: Items in the User set provide user identification information, such as user ID's, names, locations, and other LMS profile-related data.
Forum Data: Items in the Forum Data set provide identification information for forums, as well as specific post/discussion/forum details, such as the name, type, date, subject, and ID.

Related Ad Hoc Views

The following links will directly open the Ad Hoc Views in Zoola™:

Totara	Moodle
Detailed Forum Table View	Detailed Forum Table View
Forum Statistics Crosstab View	Forum Statistics Crosstab View

Included LMS Tables

The following links will directly open visual representations of included tables in the Lambda Moodle and Totara schema documentation. The Forum Domain is comprised of elements from each of these tables (respective to either the Moodle or Totara data source).

Totara

Moodle

mdl_course

mdl_course_categories

mdl_user

mdl_forum

mdl_forum_discussions

mdl_course_categories

mdl_user

mdl_forum

mdl_forum_discussions