A forum is one of the places in Moodle where your class can hold online discussions. You can configure your notification settings to receive emails from forum posts. This tutorial explains the different types of forums, walks you through posting in a forum, and replying to forum posts.
This tutorial describes how to configure a chat activity in Moodle. The chat activity allows students and the professor to have a real-time discussion via text. Chat room discussions can be recorded for future review by the professor or students. They are a great for collaboration or for office hours.
The first time you try to add a Zoom meeting activity, you will need to link you Midway University login to Zoom. This tutorial will show you how to accomplish this.
Zoom meeting is a webinar tool that will allow you to have live audio/video conversations with students, share your screen etc. This tutorial will show you how to configure a Zoom meeting in Moodle.