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.
    • Add a link.
    • Upload an image.
    • 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:
  • 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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Contributors

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Brickfield Education Labs (Lead maintainer)
Mike Churchward: Maintainer
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  • Marie Waterhouse
    Fri, May 3, 2024, 4:37 PM
    Hello, Thank you for this amazing plug in.
    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
  • Brickfield Logo
    Thu, Jul 4, 2024, 1:12 AM
    Hi Marie! Many thanks for your great feedback. Optional approval for posts - this would be a substantial yet useful feature, so we'd engage if there was funding to support it! Regards Karen
  • Lin Zhong
    Fri, Jul 26, 2024, 7:12 PM
    Hello,
    This is a great plugin.
    Is it possible to add an option to prevent uploading image(s) in this plugin ?
    Thanks
  • Brickfield Logo
    Wed, Aug 7, 2024, 11:05 PM
    Hi Lin Zhong! Many thanks for your plugin feedback, and glad that you're enjoying using it. Having a global setting for the ability to prevent uploading images - this would be a new feature, so again, we'd engage if there was funding to support it!

    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
  • James Calder
    Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 5:12 AM
    Hi,
    Is support planned for Moodle 4.5 (which recently entered code freeze)? The current version doesn't seem to work in it.
  • David Busson
    Fri, Sep 13, 2024, 11:19 PM
    Hi,
    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
  • Karen Holland
    Mon, Sep 16, 2024, 5:42 PM
    Hi Lin, apologies for the incorrect CSS in my previous comment, designed to hide the image button, it instead hid the link button.

    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
  • Karen Holland
    Mon, Sep 16, 2024, 5:43 PM
    Hi James, yes we will be getting a 4.5 version of Board ready, for shortly after the Moodle 4.5 release.
  • Karen Holland
    Mon, Sep 16, 2024, 5:44 PM
    Hi David, thanks for sharing your workflow issues with embedded URLs, we will look into this shortly.

    Regards
    Karen
  • Karen Holland
    Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 6:15 PM
    Hi David, we are confident that you are experiencing a workflow issue between an embedded board on the course page, and the URLs being configured to NOT open in a new window, which is causing the browser to not load the new page when the URL is clicked on.

    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!
  • Dominic Feldmann
    Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 2:34 PM
    Dear developers,

    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
  • David Busson
    Fri, Sep 20, 2024, 11:39 PM
    Thanks very much for this Karen! Massive oversight on my part.
  • Karen Holland
    Wed, Oct 9, 2024, 8:15 PM
    Hi James, we have fixed a JQuery bug, which was causing the board to not appear in 4.5. This fix is available on our source repository here https://github.com/brickfield/moodle-mod_board, and we will be sorting a release to the plugins database shortly as well.
  • Karen Holland
    Wed, Oct 9, 2024, 8:18 PM
    Hi Dominic, thanks for your feedback, and yes, we are discussing the option of some markdown styles in board notes/posts, in our issues section of our source repository here https://github.com/brickfield/moodle-mod_board.
  • Colin Simpson
    Fri, Nov 1, 2024, 11:59 AM
    Hey folks, love this tool and I've successfully downloaded the latest version to get it working in 4.5. I've noticed that it doesn't work in Boost Magnific - not your problem but this might be handy for others to know.
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