Log in as admin Create a course and a user, and enrol the user in the course as a student Create a forum in the course with default settings Add 2 discussions in the forum For each discussion, add 2 replies Log in as the student From the user menu (click on the student's name at the top right of the page) go to preferences Click on the forum preferences Set forum tracking to "Yes: highlight new posts for me" and save changes Go to the course and enter the forum Verify that there is an "unread" column and the non-zero numbers in that column are highlighted