Forum update
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Moodle Forum Revamp | |
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Project state | Specification |
Tracker issue | MDL-39707 |
Discussion | |
Assignee | Jason Fowler & Andrew Nicols @ Moodle HQ |
Project goals
- Improve accessibility of the Moodle Forums
- Make the forums more modern in appearance
- Make the code in the forums module more manageable
- Make it possible for themers and developers to over ride aspects of the forum layout easily
Considerations
- Backwards compatibility
- Creating sub-plugins for "Forum Types" (Q&A etc) and "Forum View"
- Subscription management
- Editor Light - a cut down version of Atto for "Reply inline"
- Make use of Renderables and Renders
Details
At present the Moodle forums are the oldest part of the code base, and lag behind the rest of Moodle in a big way.
We hope to implement a new interface for the forums, based on the accessible view from MoodleRooms' HSU Forum, and add some new functionality over time.
Current issues
- Forum can not be over ridden by themers or developers.
- Difficult to add new core forum types.
- Impossible to add contrib forum types.
- Forum is difficult to use as an accessible service.
- Forum is not even close to WCAG compliant.
- Forum look awful compared to modern areas of Moodle.
- Missing features
- Thread level subscription
- Post locking
- Post hiding
- Time locking
- Anonymity
- Discussion sorting
- Private reply
- Sticky posts
- Inline reply
- Forum code does not match the current coding guidelines.