Moodle Plugins directory: Open Forum | Moodle.org
Open Forum
Open forum are designed to increase engagement and provide a modern alternative to standard Moodle forums.
Open forum reduce complexity and work like the modern messaging systems students use every day on the web and their mobile devices.
Unlike standard forums advanced forums are responsive, so users can read and post from their mobile or tablet. Advanced forums have been specifically designed to improve the usability and accessibility of Moodle forums.
Posting and replying are all done via ajax to save page loads, take less clicks and increase engagement, while maintaining the user's context in a discussion thread.
Open forums contain a number of additional features including the ability to see who has engaged in a discussion before you open it, a setting to show recent forum posts on the course page, subscribing to individual threads, private replies and an option to allow anonymous posting, post bookmarking, along with all the features standard Moodle forums have.
Open forums are design by Blackboard in partnership with The University of Montana.
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The plugin seems to work fine for me on Moodle 4.1.8 (Build: 20231222), apart from the fact that I do not get any e-mail notifications sent out, even if I am subscribed to the forum. (I have turned off digests, because as the teacher in high-paced course, I prefer to be e-mailed right away if somebody posts something.)
Am I just missing something, or is this a bug? Can anybody help me to get this fixed? I have tried both googling and searching the issues for this git repository, but I have not found any clues.
Thank you for any help!
Mikael
The details are here, and hopefully a full solution will eventually be posted here: https://github.com/open-lms-open-source/moodle-mod_hsuforum/issues/51
The anonymous feature on Open Forum is great, but when the option to 'Allow anonymous posting' is chosen, the default for all posts is set to be anonymous, meaning that users then have to actively opt in to reveal their identity.
This can be suitable in some circumstances, but in other circumstances it may not help in building a class identity, especially in an online programme.
I would like to know if it would be possible that, when 'Allow anonymous posting' is chosen, the default for posts is set to non-anonymous posting, so that if someone really wanted to post anonymously they could choose to do so, but most posts would hopefully be non-anonymous.