Open Forum

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Open forum are designed to increase engagement and provide a responsive, modern alternative to standard Moodle forums.

Latest release: 3 weeks

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805 downloads

108 fans

Current versions available: 22

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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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Tayla Craig
Wed, 18 Nov 2015, 2:55 AM
Does this forum type have the ability to allow a moderator to approve postings before they are made public to the group?
Matias Rosemberg
Thu, 3 Dec 2015, 10:28 PM
how to limit the comments in a blog hsuForum in a simple thread?
John Provasnik
Wed, 16 Dec 2015, 12:36 AM
Hi Chris/Kris -- Love the Advanced Forums... I can't believe there was a time I never used it! Suggestion: are there any intentions on updating the icon for Advanced Forums? It's very blurry which makes it look like a poor icon next to the standard icons. Also, the red orange/ green colors kind of clash. I have a Hosted moodle so can't update the icon, but I wanted to bring up my suggestions. Thanks!
Kris Stokking
Sat, 6 Feb 2016, 7:12 AM
A new version of this plugin for Moodle 2.9 has been uploaded to the plugins repository. Corresponding repositories on Github have also been updated. There are no known issues with the new version at this time, but if you do experience a problem please ensure that you submit any issues to tracker.moodle.org.
Eric Katchan
Wed, 16 Mar 2016, 9:43 PM
Hello Kris, the new version still has a postgres error when replying to forum post. I have mad an entry in the bug tracker.

https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-5604?focusedCommentId=400281&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-400281.
Juan F
Thu, 24 Mar 2016, 8:50 PM
I would like to have the advanced editor as the default. Or, at least give me the option to turn it on/off.
Erica Bithell
Mon, 23 May 2016, 5:08 PM
Hello, do you have any plans to release a version for Moodle 3.0?
thiago oliveira
Tue, 7 June 2016, 9:20 PM
Is it possiblie to see all posts from a student? I need this to use in Moodle 2.4.
Kris Stokking
Tue, 7 June 2016, 9:46 PM
@Thiago - the capability is not available in the plugin itself, but that information should be queryable in your Moodle database fairly easily.
Sonia Arnanz
Wed, 27 July 2016, 9:40 PM
Hello, thank you for the new version, we were looking forward to it. But we have a problem becuase we have just upgraded to version 3.0.3 and we don´t have plans to upgrade to version 3.0.4 at the moment. Could we install the new version 3.0 of the plugin in Moodle 3.0.3 or is there any dependency?
Open LMS Development
Wed, 27 July 2016, 11:13 PM
@Sonia - Advanced Forums is a fork of Core Forums, so the version we've released may include some updates to Core Forums in version 3.0.4. Specifically, those were https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-53622 and https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-52942. It's possible that the current version of Advanced Forums will still work with Moodle 3.0.3, but that would be outside the scope of our testing and thus you may experience some issues. I'd recommend upgrading to 3.0.4 over a recommendation to change the Core version dependency in Advanced Forums.
Alfonso Muñoz
Tue, 23 Aug 2016, 2:00 AM
Hi! I word with Moodle 3.0.3, but unfortunately I am not able to upgrade to Moodle 3.0.4, only to 3.0.5 or 3.1.1. Considering that you cannot guarantee that your plugin will work properly, what would you recommend? 3.0.3, 3.0.5 or 3.1.1? Thank you very much in advance!
Open LMS Development
Tue, 23 Aug 2016, 4:41 AM
@Alfonso - Moodle 3.0.4 is the minimum supported version, but you may upgrade to the latest-and-greatest Stable release for Moodle 3.0. In this case, we'd recommend 3.0.5
Rodrigo Filgueira
Wed, 7 Sept 2016, 4:31 AM
Great, really great plugin, congrats! One question only. Does AF allow for participants to answer via eMail? best
Open LMS Development
Tue, 13 Sept 2016, 8:16 PM
@Rodrigo - Yes, AvF does support reply by emails.