OU blog

Will a Moodle 5.x branch be available anytime soon for this?

Since having issues with this method of distribution we are mainly expecting folks to update via the github repository and not here. (This is because the Moodle plugin database insists that each new version uploaded must have a new version in the code, and given we rarely make major changes to this plugin we don't tend to increment the code version so hit issues)

Thanks for the great work for the community with this plugin. I write again to find out if there are any plans to develop an "OR Blog embed" version, like the "Forum discussion embed" plugin? To make it possible to insert the activity "OU Blog" in any part of the course, using Moodle's filters.

Hello! Are there any plans to update the plugin and certify its compatibility with Moodle 4.0 and 4.1? This is a very good plugin, with several pedagogical possibilities. However, at my institution, it is a rule not to use plugins with a long time without updates (14 months in this case).

Erica - Sorry the version number is wrong in version.php i.e. it says 3.9 even in the latest version for 3.11. It's safe to ignore this.

The 3.11 r1 version is available here for direct download, but I can't locate it in your GitHub repository. The HEAD of the MOODLE_311_STABLE branch currently asserts version 3.9 r1 (2020091401). Is that expected, and if not would you be able to push 3.11 r1 to GitHub? Maybe I am missing something! I'm happy to raise an issue in the repository if that would be a better workflow for you. Thanks, Erica

Can you send notifications when a post is made or if they comment on a post?

Good day, congratulations for great plugin. I want to know if exist a version for Moodle 3.9 or if i can put to work fine the last version of oublog (Moodle 3.8) on Moodle 3.9. ?? Thx

Hi Marina,
Regarding the feature request, oublog does already support exports - you need to have the 'portfolio API' enabled in Moodle settings. Then it will let you export to any configured portfolios which can include a download option, I think this gives you a zip file containing HTML. Not certain this will do what your student wants but it might do.
Re the github version, I have just updated it to the latest from our internal repository. There is now a MOODLE_38_STABLE branch; both this and the master branch should work on Moodle 3.8.

Is the github version also fpr moodle 3.8?
I have a feature request from one of my students: Would it be possible to add an export, so that one could export his/her own posts or all posts as a pdf or html? Would be great, they want to save it after leaving the school, because they are really proud of their work.

Dave - I thought we fixed that rather serious security problem quite a while ago (it's our issue #256430, May 22 2018 commit date). I just checked on our live system and we don't appear to have that problem. Please check you are using the latest version from our github? I just verified and that commit seems to be included from our MOODLE_34_STABLE branch onwards (i.e. it's also in MOODLE_35_STABLE, MOODLE_36_STABLE, as well as master). There is no way to turn off the permalink display but even if there were, it wouldn't be a secure way to fix that problem.

Quick question - is it possible to turn off the permalink option within the OU Blog? It has just been brought to my attention that students can simply change the number at the end of the URL to see other learners posts, even if they blog is set to 'Separate Individual Blogs'

Hi, I have a group of learners who heavily use the OU Blog and they cannot view their blog posts. Interestingly enough they can create new posts but when view them they get an error message: 'Sorry: you do not have access to view this page.' It's currently showing 'There are no visible posts in this blog.' however I can see the participation for a particular student which is showing as yesterday (07/10/2019). Can someone advise me on what to do please?

(Jason is away at the moment, I'm answering on his behalf.)
At the Open University we are using the app but we decided (so far) not to reimplement all our custom activities in the mobile app, since it basically means having to code and maintain everything twice. We do have very good mobile support from the web interface (especially with our in-house theme) so users can access everything on their phone even if we don't have app support... So at the moment there are no current plans to implement mobile app support for OU blog, sorry.
Not sure about the tags, I thought there was a way to do this.

Will there be support for Moodle Mobile App in a future release? Currently states 'plugin is not yet supported'. Also it would be great to have pre-set tags that can be limited and selected from a drop-down box. Thanks.