What is the Choice Forum?
The Choice Forum is an online place. Here you can talk about things that affect the lives of people with learning disabilities.
They talk about things to help people with learning disabilities to have a good life.
If you join the Choice Forum, you can:
- read messages
- answer messages that other people have written
- write about something important to you.
What if I have questions?
If you need help with using the Choice Forum, please email us at [email protected]
How to keep safe on the Choice Forum
Don’t tell anyone
- your full name
- your phone number
- your address or your email address.
If anything troubles you while using the Choice Forum, please tell a person you trust or call our helpline on 01865 600034.
The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities has more information about staying safe online.
How do I use the Choice Forum?
Here are some tips to get you started:
1. How can I join the Choice Forum?
2. How do I log in to the Choice Forum?
3. How do I start a new topic?
5. How can I reply to someone else’s message?
1. How can I join the Choice Forum?
You need to be at least 18 years old to join.
Go to the page our.choiceforum.org. In the top right corner, click this button:
A form will pop up:
You need to fill in these boxes:
Email: Your email address.
Username: To stay safe online, choose a made-up name. Don’t use your real name.
Password: Should be a mix of letters and numbers (at least 8 of them).
Tick the two boxes at the bottom.
Then click this button:
You will get an email from [email protected]. Click the link in this email to become a member.
If you don’t get the email, check if it has gone into your email account’s Junk E-mail folder/Spam folder. You may want to ask somebody to help you do this.
If you need help becoming a member, call us on 01865 600034.
2. How do I log in to the Choice Forum?
Go to the page our.choiceforum.org.
Click on the Log In button in the top right corner:
A box will come up:
Put in your Username and Password, then click on the blue “Log In” button.
3. How do I start a new topic?
Log in (see above). Then click on the grey button which says +New Topic near the top right:
4. How do I write a message?
When you start a new topic, you will see a word processor at the bottom of the screen:
Give your message a title.
Write your message in the bottom left window. You can also add pictures by dragging and dropping them from your computer into this window.
The window to the right shows what your message will look like on the forum.
Choose a category from the drop-down menu.
Then, click the + Create Topic button:
5. How can I reply to someone else’s message?
To reply to a topic or a message that is already there, use the Reply button below the topic you want to reply to:
Now write your message (see How do I write a message? above).