Moodleoverflow

Activities ::: mod_moodleoverflow
Maintained by WWU logo smallLearnweb – University of Münster, Photo of JanJan Dageförde, Nina Herrmann, Justus Dieckmann
A non-linear, non-chronological discussion forum. Similar to the forum activity, but focuses on straightforward question-and-answer discussions. Additionally, users rate posts and gain a rating score ("reputation") by being rated by other users. Users who have started a discussion can mark an answer as helpful; and teachers can mark a post as a (correct) solution to the posed question.
Latest release:
446 sites
161 downloads
65 fans
Current versions available: 3

This plugin enables Moodle users to create a non-linear, non-chronologic discussion forum. The plugin has similar features as the Moodle forum, but is not intended for general discussions, but rather for straightforward question-and-answer discussions. Additionally, users can rate posts and can gain a rating score ("reputation") by being rated by other users. Users who have started a discussion can mark a post as helpful; and teachers can mark a post as a (correct) solution to the posed question.


Rating

If a post is rated up or down, the post owner's rating score increases or decreases. The rating score of a user is always shown after the user name. In the settings you can define what amount of reputation a downvote or upvote gives. Posts with a high score are displayed further up than posts with a lower score. If a post is marked as helpful or solved, the post owner's rating score also increases. By default, a mark gives a higher amount of reputation than an upvote. A marked post is always displayed first, but you can choose which mark (solved or helpful) is more important.


Screenshots

Moodleoverflow activity:

31946828-26b0b968-b8d3-11e7-9f99-e1434d7a60d8.png 


Every user can see the discussions and the posts. The discussion overview shows the status, among other things. Thus users can see if a discussion is already solved (green tick) or if a post is marked as helpful (orange tick). 

31946826-26981d72-b8d3-11e7-9773-b6547ea9276f.png 


Posts can be marked as helpful (orange) by the question owner or as solved (green) by a teacher. The current post is marked blue. Additionally, everybody can vote posts up or down. The post are ordered by the number of upvotes. The post owner's reputation increases if the post is upvoted and decreases it the post is downvoted. Post owners can edit their posts until 30 minutes after posting. Teachers can edit and delete posts from everybody without the time restriction. 

31946825-267c07d6-b8d3-11e7-8ae1-4f86ea375fd5.png  


Users can attach files. If a picture is attached, it will be displayed as image. If another file type is attached, the file will be shown but not the content. 

31946824-2660a64e-b8d3-11e7-879f-70fc5cd2fc98.png


A discussion can be deleted by deleting the first post. 


Students' view

Unlike teachers students can't edit or delete a post or mark it as solved. 

31946823-2646aece-b8d3-11e7-92d0-49745ada27e3.png 

 

Settings

Global

In the global settings you can set e.g. the number of discussions per page, the maximum attachment size or read tracking. In addition to these settings which are the same as in the forum, you can define the amount of reputation a vote or mark gives. 

31946822-262bb664-b8d3-11e7-88fd-1a400864f8aa.png


 

Course wide

In the course settings you can override a few settings like maximum attachment size or read tracking. Moreover, you can decide if helpful or solved posts are displayed first and how the reputation is calucated. 

31946820-260d778a-b8d3-11e7-9425-2af44f00e716.png 


If read tracking is set to "optional" and turned on by the students, the unread posts are highlighted. 

31946819-25f2e5b4-b8d3-11e7-88b7-97b80f159a2d.png 


Students

Depending on the global and course settings students can choose if they want to track posts and receive email notifications. 

31946818-25c4c3aa-b8d3-11e7-88f6-891f1db51618.png 


No support in the comments section on this page

Please note that we don't provide any support for this plugin in the comments section on this page anymore.

We appreciate your commendation and reviews for this plugin in the comments. For bug reports and support requests create a ticket in the bug tracker which is linked below.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Screenshots

Screenshot #0
Screenshot #1
Screenshot #2
Screenshot #3
Screenshot #4

Contributors

WWU logo small
Learnweb – University of Münster (Lead maintainer)
Photo of Jan
Jan Dageförde: Maintainer
Justus Dieckmann
Tamara Gunkel: Maintainer
Please login to view contributors details and/or to contact them

Comments RSS

Mostrar comentarios
  • virgile vernein
    mié., 9 de ene. de 2019, 18:29
    technical issu : can't add a picture from my pc in a topic ??? Any idea ?
    V
  • kiruba
    jue., 28 de feb. de 2019, 03:31
    Hi, We are unable to search the contents in moodleoverflow. and it doesn't support to moodle mobile. Could anyone give any suggestion to overcome these problems?
  • Stefan Krueger
    sáb., 13 de jul. de 2019, 07:06
    I'm loving the possibility of using this for a Q&A format, but the professors are working want to be able to reply with audio or video from the Atto editor, like they can in other forum types. What is the reason that it's disabled for Moodleoverflow, and are you looking to support this in the future?
  • Ricardo Caiado
    jue., 18 de jul. de 2019, 03:53
    Hi,

    Using Moodle 3.5.1 (20180803).

    When I try to update Moodleoverflow got this error message:

    "Validating mod_moodleoverflow ... Error
    [Error] Required Moodle version [2018051703]
    Installation aborted due to validation failure"

    Any ideas?

    Ricardo
  • Photo of Jan
    vie., 19 de jul. de 2019, 21:19
    Hi Stefan, we do not actively disable those features; in fact I would have thought that you would be able to use them. We would have to look into that. However, this is not a good place to keep track of a backlog or for communication about issues, so would you be so kind and raise it as an issue in our GitHub repository? https://github.com/learnweb/moodle-mod_moodleoverflow/issues
    Thanks.
  • Stefan Krueger
    jue., 1 de ago. de 2019, 02:07
    Thank you for the answer Jan. It hadn't occurred to me that it might be a bug. Yes, I'll raise the issue in the GitHub repository.
  • ali Abdelwahed
    mar., 26 de nov. de 2019, 22:19
    This is a great plugin
    But I have two problems
    First
    Not compatible with phones as in the following picture
    the second
    Second there is a very big star appearing at the beginning of each discussion as pictured
  • weimei xiong
    mié., 27 de ene. de 2021, 13:42
    I've reported a new bug with the topic "An error occurs on Moodle system when deleting a course which has a Moodleoverflow activity."
    Here's the link: https://github.com/learnweb/moodle-mod_moodleoverflow/issues/72
  • P H
    vie., 19 de nov. de 2021, 18:45
    Hello,
    A great plugin indeed!
    However, the forum posts and discussions do not appear on the student profile page, which makes it quite difficult to follow things up when students are engaged in several Overflow Forums in different courses.
    Any possibility of sorting it out?
  • 丽方 乔
    vie., 11 de mar. de 2022, 11:54
    Hello, we use Moodle 3.10. When we install Moodleoverflow , Moodle cannot be opened, error message :
    "ERROR
    the requested URL could not be retrieved"
    Is it convenient to tell us which system settings will be changed by this plug-in?
  • P H
    jue., 21 de abr. de 2022, 17:50
    Hello. I have a question about the plugin. Are reputation points recalculated when a post or comment is deleted? This is a desired features as it would allow that teachers to discourage low-quality (LoL!!!) messages.
  • Guido Roessling
    jue., 15 de sept. de 2022, 20:33
    In Moodle 4.0.4, the title and (if it exists) description are shown twice, once as a h2 heading inside a "section id=region-main" and another time inside the same section, but in a subordinate DIV with "role=main". It would be great if it could be shown only once...
  • Nina Herrmann
    vie., 16 de sept. de 2022, 00:21
    Hey Guido thanks for mentioning. We fixed it in Github but we will not make a release for it.
  • Guido Roessling
    lun., 19 de sept. de 2022, 15:49
    Thank you for the update.
  • P H
    mié., 22 de mar. de 2023, 23:14
    Just wanted to express my appreciation for the positivity, passion, and professionalism of the team behind this plugin. I have been engaging with them on Github and the responsiveness and dedication of the team is amazing. They have implemented the "forum moderation feature" that people have been crying for since the beginning of time (ou presque) on Moodle forums and it works like a charm! And I am sure there is much more to come from this team. Moodle, pay attention!
1 2
Please login to post comments