We generate and use RSS feeds for other forums, i.e. activities within a course, but I can't see how to produce an RSS feed for the forum in a social format course.
I'd also like to shut off permissions to post to the forum in a 'social format' course, i.e. it would be just for announcements, not discussions - but where do I edit the roles and permissions for this forum?
Great, thanks for this Helen. I could indeed set the RSS and override permissions from the Updating Forum page, so all is now well.
For others' info, I did find, that the 'Older discussions' link was missing from the page, until there were 10 postings (can this setting be reduced anywhere?), but i was able to get to the Updating Forum page anyway with the URL: ...../moodle/mod/forum/view.php?f=1165&showall=1165 where 1165 is the forum ID.
Thanks, Tony