Forum Aggregator

Maintained by Tõnis Tartes

Customized forum block, which allows teacher to select from which forums are latest posts shown on a course page.

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Supports Moodle 2.0-3.11 See all versions

Latest release: 6 years ago

Installations: 119

Downloads (last 90 days): 19

Frankenstyle name: block_forum_aggregator

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Current version

2020032200 (2020032200)

Moodle 3.0, 3.1, 3.10, 3.11, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9

Uploaded on Monday, 23 March 2020 at 21:12 (GMT+0)

Plugin type: Blocks

Frankenstyle component name: block_forum_aggregator

Version build number: 2020032200

Version release name: 2020032200

Maturity: Stable

Supported Moodle versions: 3.0, 3.1, 3.10, 3.11, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9

Repository URL (Git): https://github.com/t6nis/moodle-block_forum_aggregator

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Issue/bug tracker URL: https://github.com/t6nis/moodle-block_forum_aggregator/issues

Forum Aggregator by Tonis Tartes since 2011

This works for Moodle 2.x version.

Customized forum block, which allows teacher to select from which forums are latest posts shown on course page.
This block is an alternative for Recent News block which is tied to News Forum.

Includes all forums used in course

Teacher can select one or more forums to be shown

Can select number of latest posts to be shown(max 25)

This block makes no DB changes!
//23.03.2020 - Changes to some styles.

//20.10.2017 - Moodle 3.0+ compatiblity. Code cleanup.

//13.05.2014 - If forum tracking is FORCED then unread posts are shown with different background color.
Background color can be set in global block config. Thank you Thomas Bantle!

//12.02.2014 - Moodle 2.6 release(2014021200). Please note this version will not work below 2.6!!!
If you want to use this block below Moodle 2.6 then please download from this branch:
https://github.com/t6nis/moodle-block_forum_aggregator/tree/2013091300

//09.13.2013 - Refactored code and now showing the latest posts foreach selected forum.
Before it showed the latest discussions(first posts) only.

//06.05.2013 - Changed the view of posts in block

//19.10.2012 - Fixed a bug, related to showing different count of posts. Thank you Thomas Bantle!

//04.07.2012 - Minor lang fixes

//10.06.2012 - There were some messages popping up in Moodle 2.3, when debugging was enabled. Fixed it.

//11.06.2012 - Updating Forum Block to Forum Aggregator. Removing old entries from git.

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Forum Aggregator

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2020032200 (2020032200)