Discussion forums enable communication and collaboration in your module and facilitate asynchronous interaction between you and your students. Discussions can be used to address specific topics in your module or provide your students with a platform to ask module specific questions. 

It is recommended that you create a module  Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) discussion forum where students can ask general questions which can be answered by other students or the lecturer.   By establishing a FAQs forum and encouraging all students to post their questions here as opposed to emailing them, it will minimise email queries for the lecturer while encouraging students to learn from one another and answer each other's queries.