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OU blog
This is an alternative blog that you can install into standard Moodle.
It does not replace the standard blog, and operates alongside it. There are two modes of use:
1) As a course activity. In this case you can use it the same way as any other module. You can have course-wide blogs (everyone in the course posts to the same blog), group blogs, or individual blogs; the latter are useful for assessed activities (where the student is supposed to keep a journal which only they and their tutor can read).
2) As a replacement for standard Moodle personal blogs. In this case it would be a good idea to turn off the standard Moodle blog system, or it'll bevery confusing. You then need to MANUALLY provide students with a link to mod/oublog/view.php which will automatically take them to their personal blog.
When using for personal blogs, one feature of interest may be moderated public comments; when you allow comments from people who are not logged in, all such comments are moderated.
Please note: This plugin is no longer supported in Moodle Tracker. All support requests should be via the GitHub repository issue tracker (https://github.com/moodleou/moodle-mod_oublog).
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Currently I just include an extra PHP script into the view and viewpost files - just need to double check it handles permissions of who can/can't see a post currently so is littered with debug statements. It makes a word file currently thanks to the code my colleague did initially, though I might change that to make a PDF now he's found a stable PHP library that does it
The only issue with this is that unless you have a portfolio plugin installed that supports output to Word doc or PDF (I'm not sure any exist?) then Google Docs is really the only viable option for outputting to a printable format.
My organisation has been using OU Blogs on Moodle 2.5 and students and staff have been very happy with it. We upgraded to Moodle 2.7 this month, and discovered that all the OU Blog activity, despite showing that its running in individual mode with separate groups, is allowing every user to view and comment on every other user's blog in the course.
This is a bit of a problem for us - is there likely to be a fix for it anytime soon??
All the best,
Lindy
CONTRIB-3901
Our OU Blog version is 2013043000.
Please note that the plugin does not support Moodle 2.7 at present. We are about to migrate to 2.7 over the coming month and updates will be released to the github master branch. There will be an 'official' 2.7 compatible version release in December.