Hi, David, I think I know what is happening, because I've seen it with our own new-to-D2L faculty. Terminology around D2L discussion is different from what you may have seen in other LMS's.
Forum is NOT a place where discussion happens. It is a container, like category in Assignments. (But in Discussion, a forum is required, and an Assignment catgory is not.) The Topics you create as the instructor are the places where students post Threads and reply to other threads. If a forum has no topics, there is no reason for students to see it, because there is no place in a forum to post or reply.
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