Board

Activities ::: mod_board
Maintained by Brickfield LogoBrickfield 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 with

editable names and then students add contributions to a column.
 


On the Board, students can:

  • Add a new post with some of the following:
    • A heading.
    • Some text, with some Markdown formatting options.
    • Add a link.
    • Upload an image.
    • Upload a file.
    • Embed a Youtube video.
  • Edit or Delete one of their posts.
  • Add optional comments to posts.

They can also do the following depending on the settings of the teacher:

  • 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.

On the board a teacher can:

  • Apply a pre-built template for quicker and easier deployment.
  • 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.

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Brickfield Education Labs (Lead maintainer)
Mike Churchward: Maintainer
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  • Karen Holland
    Sat, 15 Feb 2025, 12:46 AM
    Hi Riana, many thanks for reporting your issue, sorry to hear you're experiencing difficulties since your Board upgrade, and we will try to resolve the issue, as being dealt with here at https://github.com/brickfield/moodle-mod_board/issues/162 as soon as possible.
  • Karen Holland
    Sat, 15 Feb 2025, 12:53 AM
    Hi Colin, many thanks for your feedback, and for reporting on the issues with Board and Boost Magnific, which is outside of our supported themes, if anyone has a relevant patch, we would be happy to review it.
  • Malteser Falke
    Fri, 21 Mar 2025, 9:42 PM
    Dear Folks, we are running moodle 4.5.1 and the subversion of the theme_boost -> the so called theme_boost_union , or even to be more preciese the subversion of the subversion (to be more sleak and slim) https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union_child . Now, when we try to use the mod_board in the version 2024102002 it runs into problems with the jquery pseudo element ":editable". This results in an error an nothing gets compiled or displayed -> Blank page.



    jquery-3.7.1.min.js:2 Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: unsupported pseudo: editable
    at I.error (jquery-3.7.1.min.js:2:11769)
    at PSEUDO (jquery-3.7.1.min.js:2:14453)
    at te (jquery-3.7.1.min.js:2:18967)
    at ne (jquery-3.7.1.min.js:2:19323)
    at re (jquery-3.7.1.min.js:2:20522)
    at I (jquery-3.7.1.min.js:2:7520)
    at I.matchesSelector (jquery-3.7.1.min.js:2:11454)
    at ce.filter (jquery-3.7.1.min.js:2:21675)
    at T (jquery-3.7.1.min.js:2:21559)
    at ce.fn.init.is (jquery-3.7.1.min.js:2:22177)
  • Me!
    Tue, 8 Apr 2025, 12:17 AM
    Hi, I am looking for the documentation of this plugin, I am looking to duplicate a board with all of the contents with it.
  • Brickfield Logo
    Tue, 8 Apr 2025, 2:00 AM
    Hi Edward, the current workflow with board backups and restores is that the user content is not included. Please contact us at support@brickfield.ie if you would like to discuss this further.
  • Brickfield Logo
    Tue, 8 Apr 2025, 2:01 AM
    Hi Danou, many thanks for reporting this issue, and we will investigate it shortly.
  • Lisandro Gimenez Lira
    Tue, 8 Apr 2025, 7:14 AM
    HI! Great plugin!
    Is there any plans on adding a non-anonymous option for this activity?
    The "single user" mode is great, but a collaborative board with the option to add the user's signature on posts and comments could be really usefull.
  • Kerry Watt
    Fri, 9 May 2025, 6:33 PM
    Hello! We are running 4.5.2 on Boost and have found that since we upgraded anyone with a editing role is unable to access the Board to view or change the columns, which seems to be the same issue that was reported in January. Is a fix on the way?
  • Emmanuel Remy
    Tue, 13 May 2025, 4:27 PM
    Hi! Great plugin!

    I use it with my students as a Kanban board. As I want them to be as autonomous as possible, I let the members of a group to move edit and delete the messages form the other members of the group. However, by using this kind of authorization, they are also able to delete or rename the columns of the board and then deleting the whole column for all of the groups!!!

    I would really appreciate if it was possible to distinguish betwen the right of moving/editing/deleting messages and the right of moving/editing/deleting the columns.

    Thanks.
    Emmanuel
  • Kassie Cigliana
    Tue, 17 June 2025, 10:51 PM
    My organisation is currently on Moodle 4.1 (upgrading to 4.5 in July). Some of my users are intending to embed the board tool and display the description on the course page. But the description doesn't display once the Board has been embedded. Is this expected behaviour?
  • Brickfield Logo
    Wed, 25 June 2025, 6:31 PM
    Dear folks, we have released a new version of Board, mainly to fix the reported Javascript issue being experienced by some, so we hope this will be resolved now. We are hoping to do a further release later this summer to address some of the other reported issues.

    Many thanks for using Board and giving us your feedback, we appreciate it!
  • Brickfield Logo
    Wed, 25 June 2025, 6:33 PM
    Hi Kassie, yes this is currently expected behaviour, that the description does not appear when a board is embedded on the course main page.

    Please contact us at support@brickfield.ie if you'd like to discuss this further.
  • Hannah Miles
    Thu, 4 Sept 2025, 10:56 PM
    Hello, just testing out board, its seems like a good tool. I just noticed a potential issue (It could however be me missing something obvious) - Its appears to be easy for users to miss adding alt text. Could it be made explicit to users that alt text needs to be submitted into the image title field. It would also be good if they could be prevented from making a post without adding this? Perhaps extra information added within a question mark next to ‘image title field’ or similar. ?
  • Brickfield Logo
    Tue, 9 Sept 2025, 2:30 AM
    Hi there Hannah, I'd like to double-check which version of Board you're using, as our code does have a requirement to put in text for image title (which is used as the alt text) if an image is being uploaded as part of the note.

    If the image title is left blank, the form refuses to submit, and a red "Required" text shows below the image title field.

    Then when you view and inspect the image on the board or in the note itself, the image title value should be used for the image alt text.

    Your feedback has reminded us about a pending change, so in the next release, we're going to rename this field "Image alt text"!

    If you have been able to submit and view a post which includes an image, but doesn't appear to have any image alt text, we would definitely like to investigate to see if this is a bug, so feel free to contact us at support@brickfield.ie if you have any further queries or feedback! Thank you!
  • Brickfield Logo
    Tue, 9 Sept 2025, 4:42 PM
    Just on my previous comment, to help user experience, the lang string of "image title" can be easily changed in the language customisation to "image alt text" in advance of us doing a code change!
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