Activities: Open Forum
Sean Flanagan, 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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I'll give you some feedback on your use.
I am currently using Moodle 3.6.3 (Build: 20190311) and open forum plugin version 3.5.2 (Build:2018080801). I have a forum where students can post questions about course material. In this forum, both the posts and replies are anonymous thanks to the anonymous posting option. I was wondering if there is a way for the teacher to see the students names instead of anonymous user or would I have to turn off anonymous posting to make this work?
Best,
Mike Helmick
https://github.com/blackboard-open-source/moodle-mod_hsuforum/pull/14
If you're using hsu_forum and 3.6, have you run into any issues or open bugs that are causing issues with users?
Is Open Forums ready for 3.6 in production?
Many thanks
someboy knows if Open Forum is compatible with Moodle 3.8?
Looks awesome the plugin, congrats.
Thanks!
Is the open forum compatible with the Moodle mobile app?
Thanks!
I found a temporary solution (mod/hsuforum/mod_form.php) commented given lines:
//$scale = $mform->insertElementBefore($mform->removeElement('scale'), 'grade');
//$scale->setLabel(get_string('grade'));
than its working fine but Rating not working
I use Open Forum on moodle in version 3.6. We have a problem.
When students add a discussion, it works. The other students can answer it.
When a teacher adds a discussion, students cannot respond to it.
Do you know this problem?
Thanks.
You need to allow under: Site administration > Users Permissions > Define roles
Editing role 'Authenticated user' than find "mod/hsuforum:reply"
Reply to posts (tick on allow and save it)
Exception - Call to undefined method HTML_QuickForm_Error::getName()
Many thanks
Nick