CUL Activity Stream Block

Maintained by Amanda Doughty
A block that displays a feed containing the latest moodle messages. Part of the CUL Activity Stream suite.
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Supports Moodle 2.6-4.1 See all versions
Latest release: 4 years ago
Installations: 17
Downloads (last 90 days): 31
Frankenstyle name: block_culactivity_stream
Blocks
CUL Activity Stream suite

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Darrel Tenter
@Amanda Thanks for updating the plugin. It's working on the Dashboard now. However our customer is telling me that the block doesn't show new posts and replies from their Open Forum. But it does show when the forum was added to the course. https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_hsuforum
Do you why that might be?
Amanda Doughty
@Darrel I have added a new version which can be added to the dashboard. Regarding the JS error, we had this problem with other third party plugins. It was intermittent and we fixed it by fixing the AMD modules. It seemed to be caused bu a race condition as mentioned here:
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-65837
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=377578#p1559908
Darrel Tenter
Thanks for the reply Amanda! We'll look at logging the issue in the bug tracker.
How do you add the activity stream block to the Dashboard? We're lookin at the Default Dashboard and only have the CUL Upcoming Events block available.
Amanda Doughty
@Darrel could you log an issue in the bug tracker including the javascript error (I can give you instructions for finding the error if you need them). We have been using it on 3.8 since August with no issue so I suspect there is a clash with another third party plugin on your page.
Amanda Doughty
Hi, yes it is still being maintained and we use it on the dashboard to show the feed for all courses. I am currently writing automated tests for the suite. I will update the code and version support as soon as that is complete.
Darrel Tenter
Is this plugin still being updated?
We've installed the suite on a 3.8 site and discovered that if the block is present in a course then the Add activity or Resource link is disabled. Remove the block and the function returns.
We're also wondering if it's possible to use this block on the Dashboard, so that a student can see their activity stream across all of their courses in one place.
Ricardo Caiado
Does it work with version 3.1?
David Mudrák

I am happy to let you know this plugin received the Reviewers' choice award. Well done!

Amanda Doughty
Thanks Jez and thank you for all your support and help with testing.
Jez H
Hi Amanda, many thanks for one of the coolest plugins on Moodle.Org!
We have used it on prod in 2.7 for six months, we tested in 2.8 and I see Graham is running it in prod on 2.8 so it would be an idea to list it for those versions as well as 2.6 smile
Amanda Doughty
Thank you Graham. Hopefully the patch will make it into 2.9. David Mudrak and Marina Clancy are both in support of it.
Graham Bowman
Hi Amanda, I've been meaning to test this block out for a while because I thinks it's a much needed addition. I'm testing it with Moodle 2.8 and it's working fine. At first I thought I had a problem when it's placed on a course page, not showing updates to from within that course, however after running the patch from https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-47162 it's working fine!
Amanda Doughty
Thanks Bas. I'll take that on board.
Amanda Doughty
I had an inline Y.log statement. I hadn't realised that the whole line is removed from the production files when shifter creates them. So in debug mode it worked fine.
Rob Bright
Thanks for that, Amanda. Works a treat now. What was causing the issue?