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Moodle 3 Features, part 1 Forum

The upgrade of Lapinkampus Moodle and Open Moodle to version 3 and up will not cause drastic shifts in the functionality of the environment, but will bring about a great number of incremental improvements. Some of these improvements and additional functionality will be highlighted in this and subsequent entries.

The Forum module in Moodle is the most used and most flexible tool that can perform almost all functions of the assignment module (including the Urkund plagiarism check), but combines it with the interactivity of a discussion tool. In the upgrade from Moodle version 2.7 to 3.0 the Forum will aquire a few improvements which are shown on the images below:

When writing a forum messages users in a group forum can decide to post their message in all the groups that they have access to.
When writing forum messages users in a group forum can decide to post their message in all the groups that they have access to.

 

navigation between threads
In a forum it has become easier to navigate between discussion threads and it is now possible to subscribe to only one discussion.

 

Subscription to single threads
Subscription to single threads can also be done on the forum page. Also note that the back button now returns to the same topic you departed from.