Add news forum to new courses

General plugins (Local) ::: local_news_forum
Maintained by Charles Fulton
This plugin creates a news forum on course creation. This eliminates the requirement to have the latest news block installed in order to create the forum on versions of Moodle prior to 3.2. This issue is fully described in MDL-26707. You do not need this plugin if you are running Moodle 3.2 or higher.

Add news forum to new courses v1.0.0

Moodle 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3.0
Released: Thursday, 13 November 2014, 11:59 PM
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Moodle News Forum Creation

News Forum creates a news forum on course creation. This eliminates the requirement to have the latest news block installed in order to create the forum. This issue is fully described in MDL-26707.

Requirements

  • Moodle 2.6 (build 2013111800 or later)

Installation

Copy the news_forum folder into your /local directory and visit your Admin Notification page to complete the installation.

Usage

The plugin has no options; once installed it will create the news forum automatically on course creation. If you later delete the news forum from a course it will not be re-created by this plugin.

Author

Charles Fulton (fultonc@lafayette.edu)

Version information

Version build number
2014110300
Version release name
v1.0.0
Maturity
Stable version
MD5 Sum
7b070888684c555b8438ff28c29764f5
Supported software
Moodle 2.6, Moodle 2.7, Moodle 2.8, Moodle 2.9, Moodle 3.0
  • Latest release for Moodle 2.6
  • Latest release for Moodle 2.7
  • Latest release for Moodle 2.8
  • Latest release for Moodle 2.9
  • Latest release for Moodle 3.0

Version control information

Version control system (VCS)
GIT
VCS repository URL
VCS tag
v1.0.0

Default installation instructions for plugins of the type General plugins (Local)

  1. Make sure you have all the required versions.
  2. Download and unpack the module.
  3. Place the folder in the "local" subdirectory.
  4. Visit http://yoursite.com/admin to finish the installation.