# Forum completion

The forum provides three special options which you can require in order that it counts as completed.

- User must post discussions or replies: the student must post a certain number of times to the forum, and it doesn't matter whether those posts are new discussions or replies to existing discussions.
- User must create discussions: the student must post a certain number of new discussions.
- User must post replies: the student must post a certain number of replies in existing discussions.

You can tick more than one option if necessary; this means both conditions must be met before the forum counts as completed. For example, if you require 2 discussions and 10 'discussions or replies', then any combination of 10 discussions/replies will be sufficient provided that it includes at least 2 discussions. (10 new discussions; 2 new discussions and 8 replies; or somewhere in between.)