Open Forum

Hi Blackboard team,
Is it possible to have access to a download page to your "Open Grading" plugin? I am very interested on installing and testing it.

Hi There. On the 3.6 version, we went through an "accidental" upgrade to 3.6 (long story) just recently, very much out-of-sync with your 3.6 update. And hsuforum hangs our moodle system. With a 6 month development time, is it June for the update to appear? If so, is there any way to explore out the data from the hsu tables into the Forum tables, so we can continue on? Thank you for your help. Mike

Thanks a lot

Hi Sergio Gomez,
There is a configuration value that you need to set in order to see advanced grading methods for Open Forums.
You need to set $CFG->mod_hsuforum_grading_interface, so when is set to "True", in the activity administration menu you will see a node called advanced grading.
Best regards,
Blackboard Open LMS Development Team

Hi Blackboard team,
We have installed last version of Open Forums in Moodle version 3.4.6, However, when a teacher is trying to configure advanced method for grading in Grade Settings there is no option to select any Grading method. We want to use Rubric.
Is it necessary to configure something else, that maybe we have missed?
Please, I appreciate your help.

Hi Senthil Prabu,
As we mentioned before we have a released cycle which take almost 6 months, so yes we'll have a 3.6 version in the future.
Best regards,
Blackboard Open LMS Development Team

Hi Reymon Reid
Are you trying to install Open forum in 3.6? We have released recently our 3.5 version. Each version is released about each 5 - 6 months. Also your error output says the table already exists, does your DB has a table with that name already?
Let us know if you have more problems with that

Hi, is there a version coming out for version 3.6?
Getting error like 'Plugin "mod_hsuforum" is defective or outdated, can not continue'

Hi, is there a version coming out for 3.6 ?
All I get is the following on trying to install:
mod_hsuforum
DDL sql execution error
More information about this error
×Debug info: Table 'mdl_hsuforum' already exists
CREATE TABLE mdl_hsuforum (
id BIGINT(10) NOT NULL auto_increment,
course BIGINT(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
type VARCHAR(20) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT 'general',
name VARCHAR(255) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_gener.......................
...........
Stack trace:
line 492 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: ddl_change_structure_exception thrown
line 1070 of /lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
line 77 of /lib/ddl/database_manager.php: call to mysqli_native_moodle_database->change_database_structure()
line 425 of /lib/ddl/database_manager.php: call to database_manager->execute_sql_arr()
line 370 of /lib/ddl/database_manager.php: call to database_manager->install_from_xmldb_structure()
line 766 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to database_manager->install_from_xmldb_file()
line 508 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins_modules()
line 1850 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins()
line 694 of /admin/index.php: call to upgrade_noncore()

Hi
I noticed a comment from 2017 referencing mobile app compatibility but nothing since. Is this still part of your roadmap? Are there any new updates on it?
Thanks,
Ismail

Hello,
Will there be an update for this plugin on Moodle 3.5 and 3.6?
Best,
Mikey Helmick

Hi Andres Ramos,
We just double check the forum digest and everything is working as expected, please verify your configuration. Remember to double check your suscribe list as the user (teacher) that is not getting emails or notifications. You can do that by going to the activity and clicking in the "Manage forum subscriptions" link. You can also check your forum and notification preferences.
Let us know if the problem persist.

We are having an issue where teachers are not getting the forum digest. Students get it but teachers don't. We are using the latest version of the plugin. Any ideas? We've already setup notifications and check notifications preferences. Using standard Moodle forum it works but not with open forums.

I really like this plugin. Thank you for sharing it. This is very much in line with what students expect in a discussion format. The ajax and other features are very nice.

I'm running Advanced Forum build 3.3.3 now and although it now subscribed users to a discussion when they reply to a post, it doesn't subscribe them when you first create a discussion (if you leave it as the default simplified text editor). Can this please be fixed in an updated release?