Check the box if you always want an overview of your discussion fora and topics on the left side of your screen when clicking a topic/thread (Always show the Discussion List Pane), and/or if you want to see deleted posts when searching in discussion topics (Display deleted posts).

Select if you want to see the titles of discussion posts below each other, and you then have to click on posts to open them (Grid View) or if complete posts are displayed below each other (Reading View).

Check the box to include the original post in reply.

Check the box to automatically follow threads you have created yourself.

Select whether participants can rate a discussion post based on stars or upvote / downvote:

• Default Rating Scheme: No Ratings (no one can give a rating). 
• Other options to choose from are: 
  • Five-Star Rating Scheme - participants can value discussions posts based on a scale from 1 to 5
  • Up Vote/Down Vote Rating Scheme - participants of the discussion can vote posts up or down
  • Up Vote Only Rating Scheme - participants of the discussion can only vote posts up

Check the box if you would like to have a short description of the topic; Topic descriptions display in the Message List (this is visible to all members!)

Select Threaded if you want to see all posts belonging to a thread together; select Unthreaded if you want to see all posts in chronological order.

Select if you would like messages you click to open in the lower half of your screen (instead of pop-up)(Show the preview pane) and/or if you would like a search bar to search for posts (Show the search bar).

Check Post ID to show the ID of the post; check Org Defined ID to show the ID of the author of the post.

If you would like to limit the amount of characters in the title of the post; fill in the desired amount in Subject Characters to Display.