ForumNG

Caveat

This page is set up to centralise some of the discussion, information and help around ForumNG. In a sense at this stage this is an unofficial page, just an aggregation of information from the tracker, the forums and the plug in directory. Derek Chirnside 00:02, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

What is ForumNG

ForumNG is an alternative to the built in Moodle forum, and is instaled as a plugin. There has been some talk of this code replacing the Moodle forums in 2.1. See Comment in the Bug Tracker

Get the code

The announcement post in the developer forum

Sam Marshall's blog posts on ForumNG

Bug Tracker for ForumNG

Official Notes

From http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB/component/10572

"ForumNG is an alternative forum for Moodle 1.9, developed by the Open University. It sits alongside the existing Moodle forum and is completely independent; you can set up new forums using either system. The forum has some additional features (and just a few that are still missing, such as most of the forum types). Here are some of the new features:

• Advanced DHTML/AJAX (dynamic web page) support in the discussion page, which allows you to reply to, edit, rate, and delete posts without leaving the page.
• Unique (single) discussion view which combines the benefits of 'nested' and date-related views; it is a nested view, so you can see the discussion structure, but except for unread posts (and their immediate parents), posts are 'collapsed' to a short summary, so you don't have to scroll through mounds of junk to get to the unread posts. Expanding a post is one click away.
• Administrative improvements such as the ability to merge discussions.
• The rating system has friendly star graphics and can be used for grading or without a grade."

Other features:

1. Subscription at the discussion level Forum Post
2. Export of forum postings into a document
3. Save as draft option
4. Ability to set up a discussion private to individual students and the teacher
5. Flagging posts
6. Sticky posts
7. Ability to lock a discussion
8. Ability to look at readers

What is not there in NG

1. Integration with 'core moodle functions' like grading, notifications in Recent Activity block Forum comment on this
2. Different forum types available in Standard Moodle

FAQ

1. Will ForumNG work in 2.0?
2. What new features may be added in the future? Probably best to check Sam's Blog
3. What about 2.1?
4. What does NG mean?