Active Forums block: Difference between revisions
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<li>Click the Configuration Icon on the block below the title</li> | <li>Click the Configuration Icon on the block below the title</li> | ||
<li>Give your Active Forums Block a title you could want (By default is "Active Forums")</li> | <li>Give your Active Forums Block a title you could want (By default is "Active Forums")</li> | ||
<li></li> | <li>Select how many days for the block to check the forum post (default is "7" days)</li> | ||
<li>Select forum discussion post name length before truncation (default is "20")</li> | |||
<li>Select Maximum forum discussion want to show in this block (default is "10" posts)</li> | |||
<li>At last, choose to show the "News Forums" or not in this block (default is "No")</li> | |||
<li>Save Changes</li> | |||
</ol> | </ol> | ||
Revision as of 20:59, 27 October 2010
Features
- Active Forums Block allows users to view forum activity in a tag cloud style.
- The most active discussions will be displayed bold and large while less active discussions are less prominent.
- Help users to differentiate and track the discussion activity over a certain period of time.
- Show all discussion forums activity but News forums are excluded by default
Links
- Block Code Download
- Moodle Modules Posting (Please add comments here)
- Bug Tracker Page for Active Forums(Please report bug here, Thanks)
- CVS Repository
Installing
This Active Forums block is installed like other blocks (See: How to install a block)
Once the Active Forums Block installed, by using it in the course as the following:
- Turn editing on
- Create any forum discussion posts as normal
- Add the Active Forums Block to the course page to add a block)
- Move the Active Forums Block into any position you like it to have, e.g top-left (click the arrows below the block title)
- Click the Configuration Icon on the block below the title
- Give your Active Forums Block a title you could want (By default is "Active Forums")
- Select how many days for the block to check the forum post (default is "7" days)
- Select forum discussion post name length before truncation (default is "20")
- Select Maximum forum discussion want to show in this block (default is "10" posts)
- At last, choose to show the "News Forums" or not in this block (default is "No")
- Save Changes
Configuration
It is possible to achieve the following configurations:
- Block instance title: There can be multiple instances of the Active Forums block. You may want to show a different time period for active forum discussions in same course.
- Period checked (days): This option lets a teacher set different time frames for forum activity in a course.
- Maximum name length before truncation: This option constrains the discussion title to a maximum length, before it is truncated and displayed in the block. With this, a teacher can allow discussion titles to be shown at full length or they can shorten the titles to reduce space occupied by the tag cloud.
- Maximum discussions in tag cloud: In periods of high activity, there may be many active forums. A teacher can restrict the number of discussions displayed to reduce the space occupied by the discussion tag cloud.
- Include News forums: News forums are used to make announcements, so students will not be able to be active in them. By default, therefore, these are not shown among active forums.