Hi, we're pushing this as an alternative to Padlet and it seems to be going down well. Just a couple of issues/suggestions:
1) can you make it so the images can be clicked on to enlarge them/make them pop out? It's not the most accessible use for it but I observed a class posting screenshots of text onto the board and they were impossible to read (without right-clicking and opening in a new window). Still though, it would be nice if actual images could be clicked on as obviously things get smaller the more is added.
2) an obvious one but could things appear in real-time (without refreshing) as they're added? It's not a huge issue to refresh the page but might get everyone on board that's tempted to stick with Padlet.

Hello, I installed the plugin without any problem, but when I go to create the activity I get an error "Course or activity not accessible"

Hello,
thank you for any contributions for this great plugin.
I would like to know, did you plan a new release for Moodle 4.x and when will it be published?

Best regards,
Anisa

Hello,
I really like the Board plugin but at the moment I can only post pictures, but no text - not initally. After posting a picture, deleting the picture via editing and than writing text in the same post, it works. Trying to post only text, i get error/formsubmissioninvalid.
We are using Moodle 4.0.7 (Build: 20230313).
Thanks for your help!
Marie-Christin

Hi! Thanks for a great plugin. Is there any issue with this plugin and the Lambda Moodle theme? We seem to have problems with some icons (house, add file) not working. Thanks for your help!

Hello,
Any plans to make the plugin compatible with the Moodle Mobile App?
Can we estimate how much work would be needed to implement this?
Best,
Daniel

Hello,
this is a very useful plugin - thank you very much.
At the moment one has to choose wether he/she adds a link OR a picture OR a url.
It would be nice to combine these possibilities. Also, it would be nice to change the limitations of the textbox (250 characters?) within the settings of the plugin. And it would be great to add an editor for the textbox.
Thanks
Doro

Hi
I there plans for further releases of the plugin to be made available here within Moodle.org as our hosting co will only update through Moodle?

Hi Ali, yes we have a new release, which has been slightly delayed, but we're hoping to release it here in the plugins database this month, and it supports 4.2 as well. (Support for 4.3 will be in the release after that.)

Hi Doro, many thanks for your feedback on Board! We’re glad that you’ve been using Board and enjoying it!

We have no plans to allow multiple extras to a post at the moment, as keeping posts single-idea or single-item keeps them simple, focussed and easy to follow.

The textbook character limit IS a global setting in the plugin, so you should be able to increase that.

As discussed with other commentators, we prefer to keep the board posts anonymous for many educational and community reasons.

Greetings from RCSI!
I would love to use this in a course I am working in to replace Padlet but we really need:

- Author attribution - sorry I know you have some pedagogy reasons for not including this, however our students will not sign their names. And there appears to be no easy way to see who has completed this. While I get that you have your reasons, our flipped classrooms activities are graded, so it's important that we have this as an option. Also by allowing an author image a la Padlet, we can build rapport and get to know the students.
- Make it possible to be a graded activity - why not?
- Give us comments! It's a lonely world out there when you can't comment.
- Option of rating to be a thumbs up, heart or star.
- Pinned post - instructions could be included as a pinned post
- Give wordcount setting on activity level, not on global level. It's not one size fits all.
- Look into a version of this that is fully drag-and-drop with connectors - as could be used for rapid ideation.

Anyhow congratulations on making this while Padlet is still promising LTI connectors and then not delivering on the grading and completion settings. Fair play to ye! Love to see it.

Hi Michelle!!! (Karen here)

Thanks for your great feedback, it's always invaluable to hear from those using board and seeing how it's meeting their needs. Plus, it's so exciting to find out what people are using board for next

- Regarding activity completion: as it uses Moodle standard activity completion options, they will appear in the course's normal reports on student completion if so configured. It can be set to manual completion, or to conditional completion based on viewing and / or adding posts.
- Author attribution - we'll take your points into consideration, and thanks for sharing them!
- Grading - this would be a substantial feature, so we'd engage if there was funding to support it!
- Comments are already included in the latest versions, clicking on the post itself brings up the post popup and comments section. In an upcoming release, we will have better icons and UX for comments visibility.
- Option to alter the icon for rating, again we'd engage if there was funding to support it!
- Pinned post - instructions could be included as a pinned post - I'd counter-suggest that the board description would be a good option for displaying instructions?
- Wordcount setting on activity level - this is going to be a feature to be worked on, but funding would speed this up!
- Fully drag-and-drop - it would be good to have more details on this, as we're confident that it's currently fully drag-and-drop enabled. The only proviso is IF different ordering is configured, the user can drop a post, but it may relocate elsewhere WITHIN the desired column, due to the set sorting instead.

Hi Daniel! Mobile app compatibility - this would be a substantial feature, so we'd engage if there was funding to support it!

Hi Beatriz, regarding your issue with Lambda, as Lambda is a commercial theme, we don't currently test on it, however we do test on the main community themes instead.

Hi Stuart, thanks for your feedback and questions. Yes, all posts are now clickable and expand to larger popups, to better view images, videos etc, and also now have a comments section as well. Posts do real-time refreshing, set by default to 60 secs as a global setting, which can be changed to be quicker by a site administrator.