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The threads should be your questions/discussion points.  Forums can be accessed via: **Back Room \> Research Tools \> Forum** **![Forum page image 12](https://help.flexmr.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Forum%20page%20image%2012.jpg?width=670&height=295&name=Forum%20page%20image%2012.jpg)** From here you can:  - See the forum topics currently live on the platform including: - The scheduling of each topic - The target sample for each topic - The number of users who have/haven't responded to at least one thread within each topic - Links to edit the topics (![Forum page image 13](https://help.flexmr.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Forum%20page%20image%2013.jpg?width=19&height=21&name=Forum%20page%20image%2013.jpg)) - Link to view the topic (![Forum page image 14](https://help.flexmr.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Forum%20page%20image%2014.jpg?width=32&height=29&name=Forum%20page%20image%2014.jpg))  - Link to participant page (![Forum page image 15](https://help.flexmr.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Forum%20page%20image%2015.jpg?width=28&height=29&name=Forum%20page%20image%2015.jpg))  Through the actions drop-down, you can also send invites/reminders to users; download the topic into a CSV file, move the topic up/down the list of current topics (this affects the view the users see), close the topic and delete the topic: ![ForumMR Actions](https://help.flexmr.net/hs-fs/hubfs/ForumMR%20Actions.png?width=202&name=ForumMR%20Actions.png) - 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