Students dont see 'reply' - Single Simple Discussion + Separate Groups

Students dont see 'reply' - Single Simple Discussion + Separate Groups

by Usman Arshad -
Number of replies: 4

Hi

We have 120 students and i have divided them into groups.  

In the single simply type discussion forum i have enabled separate groups.

However students cannot see the 'reply' link in the forum, these students are all in a group. 


I also tested this using a test forum and a student account and get the same results. 

Can someone please help with this please? 


Kind regards

Usman

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Re: Students dont see 'reply' - Single Simple Discussion + Separate Groups

by Mary Cooch -
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Hello. If you click the help icon (question mark) next to the different types of forum when setting up your single simple discussion you will see that it says 

  • A single simple discussion - A single discussion topic which everyone can reply to (cannot be used with separate groups)

So unfortunately it is not possible to use a single simple discussion with separate groups. You could use the standard forum instead.

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Re: Students dont see 'reply' - Single Simple Discussion + Separate Groups

by Usman Arshad -

Hi Mary


Thanks for the quick reply. 

I took action after reading an old discussion regarding this:

  1. created standard forum with separate groups
  2. For each group created a discussion.  


Wish there was a quicker way, wasn't expecting to create the same discussion for each of the 24 groups! 


Kind regards

Usman

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Re: Students dont see 'reply' - Single Simple Discussion + Separate Groups

by Mary Cooch -
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If you are using Moodle 2.9 or higher then you shouldn't need to create the same discussion for all the groups. See https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Using_Forum#Using_groups_with_forums

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Re: Students dont see 'reply' - Single Simple Discussion + Separate Groups

by Usman Arshad -

Thank you so much for this tip, i tested it and it works. 

Otherwise i would have been creating the discussion for each group manually again next week.