Moodle plugins directory: Advanced Forum

Activities: Advanced Forum

mod_hsuforum

Maintained by

Moodlerooms Development,

Sean Flanagan,

Stuart Lamour,

David Scotson,

Guy Thomas

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

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Advanced forum are designed to increase engagement and provide a modern alternative to standard Moodle forums.

Advanced 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.

Advanced 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.

Advanced forums are design by Mooodlerooms in partnership with The University of Montana.

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Moodlerooms Development (Lead maintainer)

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Sean Flanagan

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Stuart Lamour

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David Scotson

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Guy Thomas

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Kris Stokking

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Chris Follin

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Moodlerooms Development
Tue, 13 Sep 2016, 8:16 PM
@Rodrigo - Yes, AvF does support reply by emails.
Stephen Livesey
Mon, 3 Oct 2016, 5:10 PM
Hello,

Is there a plan to update to 3.1?

Cheers
Stephen
Moodlerooms Development
Mon, 3 Oct 2016, 7:29 PM
@Stephen - we typically don't release new versions of the plugin until our corresponding release of the Moodlerooms platform, which generally occurs about 6+ months after the Core Moodle release. However, the "master" branch in the Github repository is passing all automated tests in Moodle 3.1, so you should try that version if you're looking to use Advanced Forums in a Moodle 3.1 build. You can access the Github repository by using the "Source control URL" link.
Laci Demeter
Mon, 7 Nov 2016, 12:40 AM
Hello, thank you for the information on the possibility of using Advanced Forums in a Moodle 3.1 build, and your reference to the Github repository. Could you explain it a bit further how I can access the Github repository? Should I look for the "Source control URL" link in my Moodle settings? Thank you!
Laci Demeter
Mon, 7 Nov 2016, 1:26 AM
Hello, I did find the Github repository, and the "master branch". It is working well in 3.1 v. Thank you!
Diego Ramos
Wed, 16 Nov 2016, 9:26 PM
Hello everyone, i have a doubt, can we lock to all comments in a a topic necessarily be anonymously? i have to eliminate the possibility of contact between forum participants
Kris KIm
Mon, 5 Dec 2016, 4:42 AM
Solr does not index Advanced Forum.
You can fix this?
Michel DENIS
Thu, 22 Dec 2016, 3:57 PM
Anyone having tried this plugin with Moodle 3.2 ?
Guillermo Biot
Wed, 29 Mar 2017, 11:58 PM
Still nobody tried this plugin with Moodle 3.2?
Mathieu Pelletier
Wed, 3 May 2017, 9:37 PM
Hi All,
I have tested this with 3.2 and it does indeed work. I have not done extensive testing, but so far it appears to work exactly as it did in 3.1.
Anu Laitakari
Wed, 17 May 2017, 7:02 PM
HI Mathieu,
Did the search work in your test? There is a tracker item for this from January: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=345465&mode=1
Mikael Kurula
Tue, 13 Jun 2017, 4:10 PM
Hello, does anyone have experience with this forum in Moodle 3.3?
Mikael Kurula
Tue, 13 Jun 2017, 8:19 PM
I can answer my own question. We installed Advanced forum in Moodle 3.3 and it seems to work fine at a first look. No installation errors and a limited functionality test revealed no problems.
Chris S
Sun, 18 Jun 2017, 2:56 AM
With Moodle 3.2, all 'Single Simple Discussion Forums' will no longer show 'author image or name' of the first post. It would be a blessing if this plugin could be updated to replicate this same feature.
Mathieu Pelletier
Mon, 17 Jul 2017, 10:49 PM
@Anu Laitakari Hi Anu, my search and all functions appear to work fine.

However, I have just discovered a rather bizarre problem with the upgrade. Though everything appears to function properly, several posts from students have been truncated. Their posts are present in the upgrade, but for some strange reason they are much shorter than in my backup. I have only discovered this after being on the new system for two weeks, so I will need to copy the old posts to the new system or write some kind of script to do it! :S

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