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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Installations

Number of sites this plugin is installed on: 9

Number of sites
2014-11 7
2014-12 15
2015-01 19
2015-02 20
2015-03 31
2015-04 29
2015-05 44
2015-06 43
2015-07 47
2015-08 54
2015-09 56
2015-10 58
2015-11 70
2015-12 61
2016-01 63
2016-02 71
2016-03 69
2016-04 68
2016-05 66
2016-06 69
2016-07 79
2016-08 78
2016-09 70
2016-10 76
2016-11 69
2016-12 71
2017-01 76
2017-02 71
2017-03 79
2017-04 67
2017-05 70
2017-06 69
2017-07 70
2017-08 69
2017-09 58
2017-10 54
2017-11 51
2017-12 52
2018-01 49
2018-02 47
2018-03 45
2018-04 46
2018-05 46
2018-06 45
2018-07 48
2018-08 49
2018-09 43
2018-10 47
2018-11 45
2018-12 38
2019-01 39
2019-02 38
2019-03 41
2019-04 38
2019-05 39
2019-06 41
2019-07 35
2019-08 36
2019-09 33
2019-10 33
2019-11 35
2019-12 33
2020-01 37
2020-02 36
2020-03 35
2020-04 40
2020-05 33
2020-06 33
2020-07 36
2020-08 31
2020-09 31
2020-10 30
2020-11 24
2020-12 29
2021-01 27
2021-02 26
2021-03 25
2021-04 22
2021-05 23
2021-06 20
2021-07 20
2021-08 23
2021-09 20
2021-10 20
2021-11 21
2021-12 21
2022-01 21
2022-02 20
2022-03 20
2022-04 22
2022-05 17
2022-06 19
2022-07 18
2022-08 18
2022-09 19
2022-10 14
2022-11 14
2022-12 15
2023-01 13
2023-02 14
2023-03 15
2023-04 12
2023-05 13
2023-06 13
2023-07 13
2023-08 10
2023-09 12
2023-10 9
2023-11 10
2023-12 9
2024-01 10
2024-02 10
2024-03 11
2024-04 7
2024-05 7
2024-06 6
2024-07 7
2024-08 8
2024-09 9
2024-10 9
2024-11 7
2024-12 8
2025-01 9
2025-02 10
2025-03 8
2025-04 9
2025-05 11
2025-06 9
2025-07 8
2025-08 8
2025-09 9
2025-10 10
2025-11 9
2025-12 9
2026-01 9
2026-02 9
2026-03 8
2026-04 7
2026-05 9
2026-06 9

Number of sites this plugin is installed on (by Moodle version):

Number of sites
5.1 1
4.5 2
4.4 1
4.1 1
3.8 1
3.5 1
3.4 1
3.2 1

Downloads

Total downloads in last 90 days: 14

Monthly downloads:

Downloads
2025-07 8
2025-08 0
2025-09 1
2025-10 0
2025-11 1
2025-12 0
2026-01 4
2026-02 5
2026-03 0
2026-04 2
2026-05 10
2026-06 3

Version downloads (by month):

v1.0.0 v1.1.0
Jul 2025 4 4
Aug 2025 0 0
Sep 2025 0 1
Oct 2025 0 0
Nov 2025 0 1
Dec 2025 0 0
Jan 2026 2 2
Feb 2026 2 3
Mar 2026 0 0
Apr 2026 0 2
May 2026 5 5
Jun 2026 1 2