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Board
Activities ::: mod_board
Maintained by Brickfield Education Labs, Mike Churchward
Encourage discussions and thought-sharing with Board, a post-it board activity for students!
This is an anonymous collaborative activity where the teachers sets out a number of columns with
editable names and then students add contributions, or posts, to columns.
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Encourage discussions and thought-sharing with Board, a post-it board activity for students!
This board plugin has been developed and is maintained by Brickfield Education Labs.
This is an anonymous collaborative activity where the teachers sets out a number of columns witheditable names and then students add contributions to a column.
Visit our Brickfield Board introduction page here.
On the Board, students can:
- Add a new post with some of the following:
- A heading.
- Some text.
- Add a link.
- Upload an image.
- Embed a Youtube video.
- Edit or Delete one of their posts.
- Add optional comments to posts.
- Move their notes among columns.
- Rate or star someone else's post.
The teacher can set up the activity with the following options:
- A closing date for submissions.
- How the posts are ordered in a column, by date or star count, or neither.
- Whether posts can be starred - by students, teachers, or neither.
- Standard moodle group access settings.
- Single user modes also available.
- Move any of the posts from one column to another.
- Download a copy of the board contents.
- Download a spreadsheet of submissions of the students.
- Download a spreadsheet of comments by the students.
Useful links
Contributors
Brickfield Education Labs (Lead maintainer)
Mike Churchward: Maintainer
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I am using Moodle 4.0 and version 1.401.03 (Build 2022040112) (2022040112)
Is there / could there be an option for the teacher / manager role to approve new additions to the board when made by the students?
I have set up event monitoring rules to notify me after the fact which is keeping it somewhat controlled for us but an advance approval / notification would be amazing.
Thank you
Marie
This is a great plugin.
Is it possible to add an option to prevent uploading image(s) in this plugin ?
Thanks
As a temporary measure, if you have access to the global settings of your site's theme, you could try the following custom CSS, to hide just the image button.
.mod_board_note_buttons .link_button {
display: none;
}
Regards Karen
Is support planned for Moodle 4.5 (which recently entered code freeze)? The current version doesn't seem to work in it.
We have come across an issue with the embed feature and wondered if there were any plans to fix this bug in upcoming releases? After adding a URL to an embedded Board, the link seems to try to open within the Board container/iFrame on the page and the URL doesn't load. We've found found this on Moodle 4.1 and 4.4.
Thanks!
Dave
As a temporary measure, if you have access to the global settings of your site's theme, you could try the following custom CSS, to hide just the image button.
.mod_board_note_buttons .image_button {
display: none;
}
Regards Karen
Regards
Karen
We have previously introduced a new configuration for individual board instances, defaulting to off, called "Enable blank target". This is for accessibility purposes. If you are embedding your board, as you describe, you'll need to set this particular setting to on instead. Hope this helps!
I would like to suggest introducing the option of text formatting in the plugin. To be specific, it is about the text formatting of text within the tiles with which you can fill the board.
It would be extremely helpful if text could be displayed in bold, italics and underlined and if line breaks could be inserted. These customisations would significantly increase the added value of the plugin.
Thank you in advance for your efforts and the time and effort involved.
Best Regards
Dominic