Who should be force subscribed to site forums?
Number of replies: 4
Currently when you set up a forum on your site homepage and set it to "Force everyone to be subscribed" then this means that only all users who are enrolled in or teaching on at least one course are subscribed, not users who have an account on the site but are not taking any courses. I would like to change this so that every confirmed site user is subscribed, whether or not they are also enrolled in a course. Are there any objections?
Re: Who should be force subscribed to site forums?
Hi Gustav,
This sounds more like a newsletter. Maybe a newsletter block would be useful, so site members would receive information relating to things that are site and not only course specific. However, if it is to be used this way, site members should be informed somehow, so they realized being registered on a site also means receiving e-mail from the site from time to time.
WP1
This sounds more like a newsletter. Maybe a newsletter block would be useful, so site members would receive information relating to things that are site and not only course specific. However, if it is to be used this way, site members should be informed somehow, so they realized being registered on a site also means receiving e-mail from the site from time to time.
WP1
Re: Who should be force subscribed to site forums?
Like I said in the bug tracker, this would cause problems. Users can never escape your mail (there's no way to unenrol from the site).
Currently old accounts eventually get unenrolled from everything automatically, so that email naturally dies out and people don't get spammed.
Maybe if users could completely delete their own accounts, but, would they ...?
Why would it be important to mail people who weren't in any of the courses? Maybe you just need an open course for the leftover people?
Currently old accounts eventually get unenrolled from everything automatically, so that email naturally dies out and people don't get spammed.
Maybe if users could completely delete their own accounts, but, would they ...?
Why would it be important to mail people who weren't in any of the courses? Maybe you just need an open course for the leftover people?
Re: Who should be force subscribed to site forums?
Hmm, this would cause problems for me I think. I have accumulated quite a number of site members who are not members of a course, and because they are not active on the site I don't want to send email to them.
However, a forced site level forum is perfect for sending messages to all my actual students if the message is the same for each class; this means I don't have to write it and then copy and paste the same message several times, but just write it once. 
The current way of doing things works well for me, but if we had selection options as to which user groups could receive the email then perhaps we could please everybody...
Tim.
Re: Who should be force subscribed to site forums?
Yes, I will make all front page activities follow the example of the forum module and only consider those users that are enroled in at least one course or who are teachers or admins, see http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=8452#52869.