Hi Everyone
We are working on a moodle Feature Request for the Q&A Forum and like to get your thoughts.
Currently, at the Moodle Forum, student posts will be sent after the global preset editing-time delay (30 min default) only. That cannot be changed at all. Neither by admins, managers nor by students.
As typical for a Q&A Forum, students are required to post once before viewing other students' posts. Then students have to wait for the whole preconfigured delay time before they can see the ongoing discussion. Especially for Q&A forums this can be an annoying experience.
Therefore, we suppose that it should be possible to enable students to decide themselves, with 'opt in' option, like teachers, to post an send notifications with no editing-time delay. This will improve students satisfaction and didactic meaning of this forums setting.
To decide self-sufficient and e.g. to fullfill individual security needs etc., Institutions, managers or teachers should be able to activate or deactivate the "Send forum post notifications with no editing-time delay" option for students.
In our feature request this could be done by a low-threshold solution: adjusting new users capabiltiy 'canmailnow'.
A more convenient solution could be e.g. an activation within the course settings.
Link to tracker: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-74679
Best regards from Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW),
Lisa