Instant student Q&A forum view all posts upon making own post--without edit or delete-own post capability

Instant student Q&A forum view all posts upon making own post--without edit or delete-own post capability

by Thomas Mellin -
Number of replies: 3

Dear Colleagues,

With Moodle 3.9, my code modification allowed students to:

  1. Instantaneously read others' Q & A posts after making their own post
  2. Never edit or delete own post

The successful method was to edit mod/forum/lib.php as follows:

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After /** Include required files */, add

$CFG->maxeditingtime = 0;

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This method appears to no longer work with 4.0dev+.  Any suggestions?

Sincerely,

Tom

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Re: Instant student Q&A forum view all posts upon making own post--without edit or delete-own post capability

by Thomas Mellin -
'Got even better features/functionality than I expected!

  1. Students can post to Q&A and edit or delete within maxeditingtime so long as they do not leave or reload the page.
  2. Page refresh before maxeditingtime immediately reveals others' posts and removes student edit & delete capability.
Moodle 4.0dev+
SSH access via Ubuntu Linux
mod/forum
sudo nano lib.php
^W
maxedit
(add line shown in the image below on which the cursor is present)


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Re: Instant student Q&A forum view all posts upon making own post--without edit or delete-own post capability

by Davo Smith -
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Why are you hacking core files to achieve this?

The setting can be adjusted down to 1 minute in the admin UI (just search for 'maxeditingtime' in the admin settings) or you can put $CFG->maxeditingtime = 0; in your site's config.php and that will allow you to set it to 0, without touching any core files.
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Re: Instant student Q&A forum view all posts upon making own post--without edit or delete-own post capability

by Thomas Mellin -

Davo,

Thank you for this feedback.  It's good to know that config.php is the safe place for setting variables not in the admin GUI.

Two things I meant to emphasize, though:

  1. I want to leave the normal maxeditingtime in place for standard forums
  2. By placing maxeditingtime of zero in the code affecting only Q and A forums, the option for students to instantly see the Q and A forum posts of others upon page reload is created, while also eliminating student edit/delete as the 'cost' of seeing others' posts.

Would this functionality be possible through an if{ command in config.php?  It seems to me that the config.php route would create a global maxeditingtime affecting all forum types.

Tom

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