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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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Is there a time frame for releasing a 2.7 version?
@Jo - I highly recommend an updated version of Moodle 2.6 for security and critical bug fixes. Regardless, AvF should work just fine with Moodle 2.6.2. The reason we require 2.6.3 is because that is the version our QA testing is performed against. I don't anticipate any problems specific to 2.6.2, and if you'd like to use that version you simply need to change the requirement in mod/hsuforum/version.php
Same with how the replies are displayed too. Though mostly just the Discussion display, that's much more important.
Also the text that says "# discussions" is unnecessary in pretty much all forums.
Also just wondering in what situation the Tree discussion disaplay would be suited for?
Or at least prevent students from "Export"ing the forum.
Thanks~
So that I could have one forum that is always in the Nested view, and another that is always in Accessible view.
Customisability is key to a good plugin, as rarely does everyone want to achieve the exact same thing.
* 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.