Allowing new discussions
+ +For most forums you will want to allow non-teachers to start new + discussion topics (threads). + +
Sometimes, however, you will want to disable this ability. For + example, this is useful for the News forum when you only want + teachers to post new items that appear on the course main page. + Students will still be able to REPLY to existing posts though. diff --git a/lang/en/help/forum/forumtype.html b/lang/en/help/forum/forumtype.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..86eec26df87 --- /dev/null +++ b/lang/en/help/forum/forumtype.html @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +
Forum Types
+ +There are several different types of forum to choose from: + +
A single simple discussion - is just a single topic, all on one page. +Useful for short, focussed discussions. + +
Standard forum for general use - is an open forum where any one can +start a new topic at any time. This is the best general-purpose forum. + +
Each person posts one discussion - Each person can post exactly one +new discussion topic (everyone can reply to them though). This is useful when +you want each student to start a discussion about, say, their reflections on +the week's topic, and everyone else responds to these. + +
(More development to come in future versions of Moodle) diff --git a/lang/en/help/waysofknowing.html b/lang/en/help/forum/ratings.html old mode 100755 new mode 100644 similarity index 91% rename from lang/en/help/waysofknowing.html rename to lang/en/help/forum/ratings.html index 79b30830072..397337de842 --- a/lang/en/help/waysofknowing.html +++ b/lang/en/help/forum/ratings.html @@ -1,9 +1,12 @@ -
Separate and Connected Ways of Knowing
+Forum Ratings
-This page explains a theory that may help you to look at human interactions +
Individual posts can be rated using a scale based on the theory of +separate and connected knowing. + +
This theory may help you to look at human interactions in a new way. It describes two different ways that we can evaluate and learn - about the things we see and hear - called separate and connected ways - of knowing.
+ about the things we see and hear. +Although each of us may use these two methods in different amounts at different times, it may be useful to imagine two people as examples, one who is a mostly separate knower (Jim) and the other a mostly connected knower (Mary).
diff --git a/lang/en/help/forum/subscription.html b/lang/en/help/forum/subscription.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ea73ebbf6b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/lang/en/help/forum/subscription.html @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Forum Subscription
+ +When a person is subscribed to a forum it means that +they will be sent email copies of every post in that forum +(posts are sent about 30 minutes after the post was first +written). + +
People can usually choose whether or not they want to be +subscribed to each forum. + +
However, if a teacher forces subscription on a particular forum +then this choice is taken away and everyone in the class will get +email copies. + +
This is especially useful in the News forum and in forums +towards the beginning of the course (before everyone has +worked out that they can subscribe to these emails themselves). + diff --git a/mod/forum/lib.php b/mod/forum/lib.php index 1539ae95ea8..e509680d593 100644 --- a/mod/forum/lib.php +++ b/mod/forum/lib.php @@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ function forum_print_discussion($course, $forum, $discussion, $post, $mode) { if ($ratingform) { echo "
"; - helpbutton("waysofknowing", get_string("separateandconnected")); + helpbutton("ratings", get_string("separateandconnected"), "forum"); echo "
:
- - :
: