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.
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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.

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.

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Charles Fulton (Lead maintainer)
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  • Tomasz Muras
    Wed, 19 Nov 2014, 5:48 AM
    Hi Charles,

    I have code-reviewed your plugin and I think it's nice and simple.

    I think it should be added to Moodle plugins repository as it is.

    Thanks,
    Tomek
  • David Mudrák
    Wed, 19 Nov 2014, 8:28 AM
    I agree. Thanks Charles for this elegant solution of the issue.
  • Charles Fulton
    Wed, 16 Nov 2016, 12:24 AM
    The integration of MDL-56811 resolved the issue that led to this plugin's creation. There's no harm in installing this plugin on a 3.2 system but it's not necessary. I'll continue to maintain this for pre-3.2 versions but I don't plan to develop it further.
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