The same forums used on this site are available for use on your site. The forums can be used effectively to communicate with nearly everyone in your organization. Private areas can be set up for specific groups. Moderated areas where all content requires approval are also easily configured.

A quick user guide is available here.

Basic Features:

• Unlimited Forum Groups
• Unlimited Forums  
• Expanded user profile with options for user bio, photo and avatar
• User ranking options  
• Built in email sending to protect email addresses. 
• Create moderated or open forums
• Mark users as trusted to auto approve moderated posts.
• Users can subscribe to topics and forums
• Security sensitive search capabilities  
• Optimized for Search Engine Spiders

User Interface Features

• Expand/Collapse Groups
• Expanded Last Post Column
• Read/Un-Read Tracking
• Sort Topics and Replies by Subject, Replies, Views and Last Post
• Custom displays for quick access to “Unanswered“, “Not Read“ and “My Forum“ topics.

Flexibility:

• Individual settings for each forum.
• Enable or disable HTML formatted text. 
• Enable or disable uploading attachments or images.
• Close a forum temporarily.
• Choose how to display user name with posts - User Name, First Name, Full Name
• Templates to control formatting for user post information and system emails.
• User level settings: Disable Signature, Disable Avatar, Monitor user, Trusted User, Disable Attachments.
• Date/Time Formatting options.

Security:

• Control individual forum access with Security Roles
• Flexible security settings allow you to control which roles can View, Read, Create,Reply, Edit, Delete, Pin and Lock
• Select or Create a Security Role for moderators
• Select an individual user as the moderator of a particular forum instead of creating a new role. 

Attachments:  

• Enable or Disable attachments per forum.
• Control how many attachments are allowed per forum.
• Control file types that are allowed per forum.
• Specify max file size per attachment.
• Images files are automatically displayed in-line.
• Non-images are displayed as a link to download.
• Images are automatically re-sized to your height and width parameters if specified.