Analyses of the Use of the Forum Resource on University Virtual Campuses. A Comparative Study Between the Years Before and During Covid19

This paper presents the results obtained from the structure and context of the forum resource from Moodle virtual platforms. Specifically, an analysis is carried out to detect didactic characteristics in the forum design inherent to the subjects of postgraduate degrees at the University of La Laguna during the academic years 2016–2017 until the academic year 2020–2021. This communication represents only a part of a broad study in which different resources and characteristic elements of virtual classrooms are reviewed. The results obtained, thanks to the methodological approach carried out, show differences in the academic years following the impact of COVID-19 on the forum resource and obtain evidence of distinctive characteristics of didactic design in forum resources on virtual platforms.