using separate groups stops students' replies

using separate groups stops students' replies

by John Ryan -
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I have just set up a forum (A single simple discussion) in a course with the force separate groups option on.

However, only students who are not in any groups can reply to my initial post.

If I change the course setting to no groups then all students can reply.

The course has a large number of students and is unmanageable for the purposes I want.

Am I setting it up wrong or is this a bug? If I am setting it up wrong then how do I do it?

Can I set up any permissions to ensure that the students can post (I had a quick look but didn't see anything obvious)?

I am using moodle 1.8.1+ but I only upgraded to this today. The same effect was happening in version 1.5.2+

John Ryan
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