The original course may then be "reset" for a new intake of students. An alternative is to create empty courses for teachers, give them editing rights in the course and allow them to import the resources and activities from their old course into the new course. See Import course data. This can be done manually by teachers for their own courses and as such, they have control over what aspects are reset. They may for example choose to not reset certain activities that they want to keep the user content from a forum, or a glossary or database for example.
See Reset course. Which forum threads would you want on the front page? For instance my workplace moodle has about thousand courses, most with forum discussions. Its not practical, possible or desirable to put those on the front page. However, if you set the MyHome page as the default for logged in users, then each course they are enrolled on should give information about unread posts, making it easy for students to see the ones relevant to them without being overloaded with all of them, whether they are subscribed or not.
You could also enable RSS feeds for any forums you wish and allow students to access forums via the rss block. Tags are not necessarily a cure all for search engine optimisation - if you want your courses and forums to appear on search engines, then investigate that as an issue, but don't assume tags will solve it.
Have you tried turning on Read tracking, which highlights the unread posts? But yes, agree a count of unread posts alongside the total number of replies in a thread would be useful information. OK - don't personally see the benefit of this, and would probably just apply google analytics or similar if I needed it, but if you have a requirement for it then fine. Yes, people use Moodle as a part of their total webpresence because they are using teh most appropriate tool for the task - for your example, the moodlenews.
As powerful as Moodle is as a learning environment, it is not designed to be a one stop shop off the shelf solution for the entire web needs of an institution. It is designed to be the best learning environment it can be. Yes, moodle can look more like a webpage - see some of the newer themes and some of the examples discussed in the forums and around the web.
And yes, some of your suggestions may be useful for some users. But some of them are specific to your use case while Moodle needs to address everyone's needs in ways that can be adapted for individual institutions. Can't comment on zenforo as I've never heard of it, while vBulletin is specifically designed as a forum and only a forum, so yes, if you want to use that in place of Moodle's own tools because your needs revolve more around the forum than around the learning environment as a whole, then I would recommend using the best tools for YOUR needs and using Moodle for its core purpose while using other tools for blogging wordpress external forums a bulletin board of some kind or whatever other needs an individual institution may have.
Moodle does not need to become a primary webpage creation tool, at least not over and above its core purpose - where I do agree that having a more 'web page feel' would be beneficial, given that the look and feel of the web itself changes over time too! Perhaps you should consider adding these suggestions to the tracker - mainly by the look of them as suggestions for the forum tool. They can then be voted on and possibly developed by the community. I know improvements to the forum are an often discussed topic While I still consider it far better than the ones on many commercial and alternative OSS rival learning systems I have used.
First of all, I feel unpleased because my thread was moved to General help. I know you have power over my thread. Did I post in wrong forum? Originally, I posted this thread in Future major features Forum , so Why was this thread moved to General help? Are these features available in Moodle? The newest thread or post in each forum will appear in Fontpage.
Why posters use tags? Do they use tags for fun? You can read: Title tags are the second most important on-page factor for SEO, after content. You can read more information about title tags here. I turned on Read tracking, but in fact, not all of the students remember to subcribe forums. In addition, a large number of our users are Guests. Attachment files: Why do teachers have to see logs to find out who downloaded our files instead of seeing them right after the files?
In my poor country, Vietnam, almost secondary students and college students have facebook, google, twister etc.
Xenforo not Zenforo! Xenforo is one of the biggest and most popular sources. How to make Moodle look like a webpage by using Theme is only a short-term solution. Now we have Moodle 3. If you feel my suggestion unnecessary, you may ignore them. And to think I was just going to move it to The Lounge. If you want fancy forums then use a proper forum application.
Moodle documentation used MediaWiki because that is the man for the job. Absolutely, suggestions are welcome but sometimes Moodle just isn't the tool you should be using. Most organisations will use a variety of tools to facilitate their complete web presence. Otherwise, all we do is re-invent the wheel. I agree completely that the forums need changes.
I remember in when sticky forums were first proposed and now, 12 years later, they have finally moved into final stages of core integration. Sticky forums are not "fancy" features, but critical tools to allow teachers to focus key pinned topics for attention, and give students valuable ways to construct knowledge by summarizing long threads and seemingly unconnected comments.
Teachers and students do not want to have 5 or 6 separate LMS tools to log into and switch to--a blog tool, a wiki tool, a forum tool, etc.
The purpose of Moodle is to have one place to go to. Unfortunately, the forum module has been in a decade-long doldrum with the exception of word counts! My suggestion to Phoung is that after you get feedback on the these recommendations, that you separate the points and make Tracker items for each. I know the Tracker is really scary for me too and it is easy for a recommendation to get lost for 12 years, but with persistance, and support by other teachers, there is change.
The reason that core development is so slow is because developers think differently than teachers--they are more concerned with long-term maintanence of code, than learning. It is natural, so teachers have to explain their needs convincingly and rally other teachers who have the same needs.
Howard, could you move this thread back to the Future Major Features section? Actually, I think the majority of points relate to the Forum Module. Then we should move it to the Forums Module discussions. My suggestion for retitling this thread is something more specific like: "Five needed changes for the Forum Module". I'm not sure that is true. For example there will always be forum systems better than those in Moodle, and I can live with that. I have been using online forums for around as long as they have existed and I have never used them in other systems I have run and not missed them in Moodle.
One persons essential is another persons whatever. Don has a very simple idea, and that is Moodle should be a "one-stop shop" for educational tools and purposes. Under Completion tracking, locate the dropdown menu next to Enable completion tracking , and select Yes. Select Save and display to return to your course page. Statistics generates a graph and table of activity filtered by class role e. Logs Course logs allow instructors to see which resources or activities have been accessed and when.
The Choose which logs you want to see page will open. You will see an array of drop-down menus. Choose one or more options to narrow the search: Course filter - The default is the current course. Group filter - The default is All groups. Select the list to select a specific group.
Participant filter - The default is All participants. Select the list to select a particular participant. Day filter - The default is All days.
Select the list to select a specific date. Activity filter - The default is All activities. Select the list to narrow the filter to one activity. Action filter - The default is All actions.
Events filter - Filters include Teaching, Participating and Other. Selecting Teaching filters generates results based on actions a teacher might have taken e. Selecting Participating filters generates results based on actions a student or participant might have taken e.
To view the logs, click Get these logs. The page will refresh displaying logs based on your chosen filters. To download the report as a file, use the Download table data as drop-down menu. From this menu, you can select any of the following file types: Comma separated values. Microsoft Excel.
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