Moodle Plugins directory: Board — collaborative post-it board activity for Moodle | Moodle.org
Board — collaborative post-it board activity for Moodle
Activities ::: mod_board
Maintained by 
Brickfield Education Labs, 
Mike Churchward
Board gives students a shared space to contribute ideas, links, images, and videos as visual posts organised into teacher-defined columns.
Posts are anonymous by default — students see each other's contributions but not who made them.
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Board gives students a shared space to contribute ideas, links, images, and videos as visual posts organised into teacher-defined columns.
Posts are anonymous by default — students see each other's contributions but not who made them.
Board has been developed and is maintained by Brickfield Education Labs. Visit our Brickfield Board introduction page here.
Usage
Students can add posts containing any of the following:
- A heading.
- Text, with Markdown formatting options (bold, italic, lists, headings, line breaks).
- A link.
- An uploaded image.
- An uploaded file.
- An embedded YouTube video.
Students can also:
- Edit or delete their own posts.
- Comment on any visible post.
- Receive a Moodle notification when someone comments on their post.
The following depend on teacher settings:
- Move posts between columns.
- Rate or star any visible post.
What teachers can set up:
- A closing date for student submissions.
- Post ordering within columns — by date, star count, or neither.
- Whether posts can be starred — by students, teachers, or neither.
- Standard Moodle group access settings.
- Single-user mode — private or public — to give each student their own board.
What teachers can do on the board:
- Apply a pre-built template for quicker description and column setup.
- Move any post from one column to another.
- Download a copy of the board contents.
- Download a spreadsheet of student submissions.
- Download a spreadsheet of student comments.
Useful links
Screenshots
Contributors
Brickfield Education Labs (Lead maintainer)
Mike Churchward: Maintainer
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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.
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
Many thanks for using Board and giving us your feedback, we appreciate it!
Please contact us at support@brickfield.ie if you'd like to discuss this further.
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!
There were some significant changes which made the previous 1.404 version incompatible with Moodle 4.5.
Hope this resolves your issue!
Hi Mike,
I’m a Moodle administrator and we are currently planning an upgrade of our platform to Moodle 5.1.
We are using the Board activity plugin (mod_board) and I noticed that the latest release is currently marked as compatible up to Moodle 5.0.
Could you please let me know if:
• there are plans to release an updated version compatible with Moodle 5.1, or
• the current version is expected to work without issues in Moodle 5.1?
This plugin is very useful for our teaching activities, so we would like to plan the upgrade accordingly.
Thanks in advance for your work on this plugin.
Best regards,
Gaspar
We have fully tested and found no issues with the current version of Board (1.405.00 2025070714) when deployed to 5.1, and we're updating the plugin's details accordingly.