Tom B

After being swamped with forum posts I am unsubscribing to this forum. I think this is pretty silly.

In these forums there should be a "subscribe to this thread only" option. I want to know when a particular thread has new content, but I don't always want to receive notifications about EVERY thread in a forum. 

I see this has come up in the past https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=217293. I disagree with those who say that having no subscribe-to-thread and only having subscribe-to-whole-forum "is a feature, not a bug". We, the users, should be able to CHOOSE to subscribe to only a thread or to the whole forum. 

And, now as I post this, I am "forced" to subscribe to the whole forum. Ugh, now I must prepare myself for the flood of forum posts in my email.

Wow, that works great. Thank you so much. 

Thank you Mary. That seems to give me what I want. 

I filtered on "moode/course:view" (note the colon) and set "View Courses Without Participation". 

Follow up question: this denies access to the news forum. Is there a way that I can allow that? I guess I mean "only add that permission". When I filtered on "news" I only see permissions related to "add news" and "reply to news".

In the permissions to grant I don't see "Course: View" 

I would like to grant that permission and deny all others.

But I go to site administration / users / permissions / define roles

http://www.mysite.com/moodle/admin/roles/define.php?action=edit&roleid=9

to edit 'School Administrator | Can View Only'

and there are dozens of permissions to grant or deny.