Hi. I use the moodle courses for website pages other than actual "courses", so I removed the News Forums when I was setting up the site. Now I need to add News Forums to some of the actual courses to use for sending out announcements to various groups. How can I recreate a News Forum? I want this to be a "no discussion, no reply" announcements only vehicle. Thanks.
Unless you somehow disabled the news forum in the site level, If you add the 'latest news' block in a course site it should bring back the News forum of that course. 
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