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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* Optimized user experience with a single, modern, intuitive, and accessible forum view for all users that replaces the four previous view options.
* Improved accessibility for users with screen readers.
* Increased responsiveness and ease of use on mobile/tablet devices.
* Improved user engagement and interaction as an assessment activity, a p2p and tutor communication tool, and a blog/information distribution tool.
There is a known issue with simple, single forums where the description is listed twice. We are actively working towards a resolution that should be available in an updated version available in early February. If you experience a problem please ensure that you submit any issues to tracker.moodle.org.
Some questions:
* Is there a module dependency that I'm missing?
* Are there module conflicts that I should be aware of?
* Do the core themes (Clean and More) need to be hacked to enable the dynamically revealed "new discussion" forum to appear on screen?
Any ideas on how to resolve this problem are appreciated!
Not sure if others are experiencing a similar issue, but another challenge is that the Advanced Editor is not loaded by default when composing a forum post (Moodle using ATTO editor). We would really appreciate having the advanced editor as the default.
Thank you!
Thanks for having the same idea with me. I'm very surprised and don't believe that moodle forums lack "VIEWS" column; Discussion - Started by - Replies - (VIEWS???) - Last post while other open sources do. When I browse threads in forums, I often stop and read the threads with a lot of VIEWS or REPLIES - HOT threads. How can I know my students and colleagues read a certain thread? Don't ask me to have a look at LOGS!!! Very inconvenience! plz, make moodle forums look like any other forums and more functional!!!
Cedric
Cedric
Any ideals what would be causing this as I need to move it into production. mark