In nearly all forums or social networks today, one can react to a post by adding some emoji as reaction. Usually, all users can then easily see how people reacted to a specific post, which - I believe - can increase the engagement in using that forum a lot.
I wonder if there is a specific reason, why this is not implemented in Moodle as a standard?
Is there any plugin that adds this functionality?
Thank you for the answer!
I don't mean to add Emojis within the own text, but rather to offer students an option to react on others' messages by adding just an emoji (as it is common with most forums).
Something like what is possible with rating individual messages as 'useful' in this forum.
Ideally in a way that one can see all emojis at one glance.
I'm running Moodle 3.9
It's a bit of a fiddle to set it up, but you can create a custom scale of emojis which can then be used to rate posts...
Within your course, go to Grade > Scales and create a new scale there (in my example I haven't got the order correct as they should be from negative to positive...)
As the "Scale" entry box does not have a full text editor you can type the scale in the description box below and then cut and paste it in...
You can then apply this scale to a forum for the ratings. If you want students to be able to rate the posts, be sure to edit the default permissions to allow students to rate posts...
HTH
Jon
Along with Rick's reply (I see the emoji picker toolbar button by default), check your site's Environment report. If there are any warnings about not having full UTF-8 support you must convert your Moodle database to the recommended settings (this only applies to MySQL/MariaDB databases).
