Essential theme: problem with forums

Essential theme: problem with forums

by Thibaut Gerome -
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I am loving the essential theme. Congratulations and many thanks to the developers.

I am having a problem however, and wondering what I'm missing:

Students are not able to post or reply within my forums! (kind of defeats the whole purpose)

I've checked permissions and students definitely have the permissions to post.

I am talking about a "general use forum" in auto-subscription mode.

Anybody have this problem?

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Re: Essential theme: problem with forums

by Derek Chirnside -
I am of course not an expert on this.

But I predict what the answer will be from one of the theme gurus:

  1. Switch to another core theme: do you still get the the error?
  2. Turn debugging on, and see if there is an error.

-Derek

Just watching the cricket. Rohit on 99.

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Re: Essential theme: problem with forums

by Floyd Saner -

Thibault,

  1. Are you certain you are using the Forum activity and not the News forum?  I presume you are because you said students have posting permission, but just checking anyway. Students cannot post/reply to the News forum.
  2. Another common error I see is that the forum is configured for groups, but no groups have been formed.
  3. Are students enrolled in the course with a Student role?  It is strange, but I have seen students enrolled in a course, but without an assigned role.
  4. I use Essential and Forums work fine in my case.  Do you have the most recent (and correct) version of Essential for your Moodle installation?

I checking all the above does not solve your problem, I'm willing to take a look at your site if you can provide a login (do so through Messaging).

Thanks,

Floyd

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Re: Essential theme: problem with forums

by Floyd Saner -

Also, following up on Derek's suggestion, have you tried using a different theme?  Does the problem still exist if you use the Clean theme?

Floyd

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Re: Essential theme: problem with forums

by Thibaut Gerome -

Embarrassingly, it was simply point #1.

I wasn't clear on the distinction between the different types of forums.

I'm now adding simple discussion forums throughout the website, and it seems to be working perfectly well.

Thanks!

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Re: Essential theme: problem with forums

by Mary Evans -
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This is nothing to do with Essential, but more to do with your Moodle set up.

First of all I think you need to see that you have set the Forum up correctly.

I am not familiar with all the Admin settings but I dare say that there will be one somewhere that you need to put a tick in the checkbox to allow comments.

So go to the page where the forum is and click on Edit settings.

Cheers

Mary

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