Moodle Plugins directory: Board: Comments

Wednesday, 18 March 2026, 6:56 PM - Brickfield Education Labs

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:56:02 GMT

by Brickfield Education Labs.

Hi Gaspar, many thanks for your query on whether Board is compatible with 5.1 or not.

We have fully tested and found no issues with the current version of Board (1.405.00 2025070714) when deployed to 5.1, and we're updating the plugin's details accordingly.

Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 2:19 AM - Gaspar Tessi

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:19:02 GMT

by Gaspar Tessi.

Subject: Compatibility with Moodle 5.1 – mod_board plugin

Hi Mike,

I’m a Moodle administrator and we are currently planning an upgrade of our platform to Moodle 5.1.

We are using the Board activity plugin (mod_board) and I noticed that the latest release is currently marked as compatible up to Moodle 5.0.

Could you please let me know if:

• there are plans to release an updated version compatible with Moodle 5.1, or
• the current version is expected to work without issues in Moodle 5.1?

This plugin is very useful for our teaching activities, so we would like to plan the upgrade accordingly.

Thanks in advance for your work on this plugin.

Best regards,
Gaspar

Wednesday, 10 December 2025, 2:32 AM - Brickfield Education Labs

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:32:00 GMT

by Brickfield Education Labs.

Hi Gabor, you will need to upgrade your Board plugin to the 1.405.00 version available here.

There were some significant changes which made the previous 1.404 version incompatible with Moodle 4.5.

Hope this resolves your issue!

Thursday, 13 November 2025, 7:59 PM - Gabor Toth

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:59:19 GMT

by Gabor Toth.

Hi Brickfield. I love the Board but I seem to have lost the ability to change the Heading text field. I no longer seem to have the pencil to edit it. We are now on 4.5.7 and using Board 1.404 build. I have reviewed the capabilities, everything is ticked for the board for my admin role.

Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 4:42 PM - Brickfield Education Labs

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:42:06 GMT

by Brickfield Education Labs.

Just on my previous comment, to help user experience, the lang string of "image title" can be easily changed in the language customisation to "image alt text" in advance of us doing a code change!

Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 2:30 AM - Brickfield Education Labs

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:30:07 GMT

by Brickfield Education Labs.

Hi there Hannah, I'd like to double-check which version of Board you're using, as our code does have a requirement to put in text for image title (which is used as the alt text) if an image is being uploaded as part of the note.

If the image title is left blank, the form refuses to submit, and a red "Required" text shows below the image title field.

Then when you view and inspect the image on the board or in the note itself, the image title value should be used for the image alt text.

Your feedback has reminded us about a pending change, so in the next release, we're going to rename this field "Image alt text"!

If you have been able to submit and view a post which includes an image, but doesn't appear to have any image alt text, we would definitely like to investigate to see if this is a bug, so feel free to contact us at support@brickfield.ie if you have any further queries or feedback! Thank you!

Thursday, 4 September 2025, 10:56 PM - Hannah Miles

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:56:41 GMT

by Hannah Miles.

Hello, just testing out board, its seems like a good tool. I just noticed a potential issue (It could however be me missing something obvious) - Its appears to be easy for users to miss adding alt text. Could it be made explicit to users that alt text needs to be submitted into the image title field. It would also be good if they could be prevented from making a post without adding this? Perhaps extra information added within a question mark next to ‘image title field’ or similar. ?

Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 6:33 PM - Brickfield Education Labs

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:33:22 GMT

by Brickfield Education Labs.

Hi Kassie, yes this is currently expected behaviour, that the description does not appear when a board is embedded on the course main page.

Please contact us at support@brickfield.ie if you'd like to discuss this further.

Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 6:31 PM - Brickfield Education Labs

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:31:10 GMT

by Brickfield Education Labs.

Dear folks, we have released a new version of Board, mainly to fix the reported Javascript issue being experienced by some, so we hope this will be resolved now. We are hoping to do a further release later this summer to address some of the other reported issues.

Many thanks for using Board and giving us your feedback, we appreciate it!

Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 10:51 PM - Kassie Cigliana

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:51:26 GMT

by Kassie Cigliana.

My organisation is currently on Moodle 4.1 (upgrading to 4.5 in July). Some of my users are intending to embed the board tool and display the description on the course page. But the description doesn't display once the Board has been embedded. Is this expected behaviour?

Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 4:27 PM - Emmanuel Remy

Tue, 13 May 2025 08:27:00 GMT

by Emmanuel Remy.

Hi! Great plugin!

I use it with my students as a Kanban board. As I want them to be as autonomous as possible, I let the members of a group to move edit and delete the messages form the other members of the group. However, by using this kind of authorization, they are also able to delete or rename the columns of the board and then deleting the whole column for all of the groups!!!

I would really appreciate if it was possible to distinguish betwen the right of moving/editing/deleting messages and the right of moving/editing/deleting the columns.

Thanks.
Emmanuel

Friday, 9 May 2025, 6:33 PM - Kerry Watt

Fri, 09 May 2025 10:33:04 GMT

by Kerry Watt.

Hello! We are running 4.5.2 on Boost and have found that since we upgraded anyone with a editing role is unable to access the Board to view or change the columns, which seems to be the same issue that was reported in January. Is a fix on the way?

Tuesday, 8 April 2025, 7:14 AM - Lisandro Gimenez Lira

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 23:14:48 GMT

by Lisandro Gimenez Lira.

HI! Great plugin!
Is there any plans on adding a non-anonymous option for this activity?
The "single user" mode is great, but a collaborative board with the option to add the user's signature on posts and comments could be really usefull.

Tuesday, 8 April 2025, 2:01 AM - Brickfield Education Labs

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:01:03 GMT

by Brickfield Education Labs.

Hi Danou, many thanks for reporting this issue, and we will investigate it shortly.

Tuesday, 8 April 2025, 2:00 AM - Brickfield Education Labs

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:00:32 GMT

by Brickfield Education Labs.

Hi Edward, the current workflow with board backups and restores is that the user content is not included. Please contact us at support@brickfield.ie if you would like to discuss this further.