Course that does not support announcements forum Create a course. Set the Course format to " Single activity format ". Expand the " Appearance " section. Confirm that the " News items to show " field is not shown Click " Save and display " and navigate to the course. Confirm that the activity configuration form is displayed. Course that supports announcements forum Create another course. Set the Course format to " Topics format ". Expand the " Appearance " section. Confirm that the " News items to show " field is shown Make sure that the " News items to show " is greater than 0. Click " Save and return " Confirm that an " Announcements Forum " is automatically created. Create a " Weekly format " course. Under Appearance , make sure that the " News items to show " is greater than 0. Click " Save and return " Confirm that an " Announcements Forum " is automatically created. Legacy course format plugins Install the Onetopic and Collapsed topics course format plugins. Create a course. Set the Course format to " Onetopic format ". Expand the " Appearance " section. Confirm that the " News items to show " field is not shown Click " Save and display " and navigate to the course. (The UI display might turn out weird) Confirm that an " Announcements Forum " is not created. Create another course. Set the Course format to " Collapsed topics ". Expand the " Appearance " section. Confirm that the " News items to show " field is shown Under Appearance , make sure to set that value of the " News items to show " to something greater than 0. Click " Save and display " and navigate to the course. Confirm that an " Announcements Forum " is created.