![]() ![]() This is when things become scary for beginners. There is additionally the steep learning curve of understanding how Moodle is constructed and therefore this knowledge leads to knowing what forum to post in. Where perhaps things don't quite work is there is a long list of forums, not that they are not all needed but that it's human nature to just post in the first place that makes sense, not go any further and hope for the best. In terms of "tweaking" is there any realistic prospect that the Moodle forum tool is going to be updated with reputation tracking, up/down voting, subject tagging? It may be that I'm sticking my head above a parapet here but I thought I'd ask the question "are we using the *best* tool for the job"? The questions are asked by actual users with real questions and it feels that it offers a much better way of handling that specific form of interaction. The Moodle forums are great for asking questions and getting the community to respond, but they do feel a bit like a walled garden, and finding questions that have already been answered is really quite difficult.Īlso there is no idea / mechanism that a question asked in the forum has been answered. Now, he is a Computer Science teacher (and hand-cranks haskell scripts to build his own course materials), and his reaction was that this question and answer (as opposed to Frequently Asked Questions) format that he finds on StackExchange (to which he contributes as an "expert") works well in providing answers that can be easily found and to an extent have been validated via the reputation systems that are built-in. I don't think he had a specific thing, but that he couldn't (maybe didn't want to) simply just ask a question (i.e. I do agree that FAQs are pretty useless, but I use things like Stackoverflow almost daily as a developer and I don't think that it is offering an FAQ. ![]()
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