Add news forum to new courses

Maintained by Charles Fulton
This plugin creates a news forum on course creation. This eliminates the requirement to have the latest news block installed in order to create the forum on versions of Moodle prior to 3.2. This issue is fully described in MDL-26707. You do not need this plugin if you are running Moodle 3.2 or higher.
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Supports Moodle 2.6-3.1 See all versions
Latest release: 10 years ago
Installations: 9
Downloads (last 90 days): 14
Frankenstyle name: local_news_forum
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Charles Fulton
The integration of MDL-56811 resolved the issue that led to this plugin's creation. There's no harm in installing this plugin on a 3.2 system but it's not necessary. I'll continue to maintain this for pre-3.2 versions but I don't plan to develop it further.
David Mudrák
I agree. Thanks Charles for this elegant solution of the issue.
Tomasz Muras
Hi Charles,
I have code-reviewed your plugin and I think it's nice and simple.
I think it should be added to Moodle plugins repository as it is.
Thanks,
Tomek