I have just begun to use Moodle a month ago, so I'm still a beginner...
One of the things I had trouble to understand at first was the choice when you create a forum :
"Force everyone to be subscribed?"
Since we had a problem with the scheduler on the Moodle server, I was not able to see the effect of this choice. But with a little bit of research, I finally understood that I could choose or not, as a teacher, the reception by email of a copy of every post in the forum.
I didn't made the association with how things were done for news, etc. Oups!
So, here my suggestion : Would it be easier for beginners if we replace :
"Force everyone to be subscribed?"
By :
"Force the reception of every post in this forum by email?"
It is a little longer but more explicit to the beginner.
It would be the same for the similar strings. Even for the title of the column in the table that list all the forums (Suscribed) : "Receive
by email".
And I LOVE Moodle!