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The posts performed by the user should not appear a unread for the user.
This happens now, you write a post, and then when looking at forums you have a post to read: your own post |
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Read and unread postings
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Hi!
Good idea.
Can you explain more how you see the interface for this?
I imagine a button Hide all current posts which sets a time in the user profile. All posts before that time are hidden, all posts after are shown. Another button Show all posts would show everything again.
From P. S. (p_stencel at wp.pl) Tuesday, 25 March 2003, 11:19 PM:
I think there has been a discussion about this, though I can't find it in the forums. If I remember correctly, it finished with a question how to treat messages which students receive as forum subscription.
In the case of a non-subscribed forum this is simple - messages that the student has not seen are marked as unread.
In the case of forums the student is subscribed to, I think the messages should not be marked as either read or unread. We can assume that if a message has been sent, it is treated as read - I realize this doesn't have to be actually read, but isn't it the same with the unsubscribed forums? (messages are displayed, we can never be sure they have been read)
Instead of marking those subscribed messages as read there could be a setting in the user profile with a number of days a message is marked as new
What do you think?
From Martin Dougiamas (martin at moodle.com) Sunday, 13 April 2003, 02:08 PM:
For reference, that was this thread: <A href=http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=632
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My main problem with this whole problem is the amount of data it causes to remember each post for each person.
But I like the functionality, so I need to find a shortcut.
The option to only flag messages from the last x days is not bad, though obviously once you've read them all they still will be flagged). A better way of implementing this might be with an extended page of recent activity, like the log on the course page but organised better to give you a better view of what's been happening.
Another idea is to store a flag for every post+user, but only store the data for a short time. When a posting is made, a table is filled with UNREAD flags for each user currently subscribed. As they read them (via web or mail) then these flags are removed entirely. After 30 days (or some admin-specified period) any UNREAD flags still existing can be deleted by cron.
Just some ideas to think about.
From Martin Dougiamas (martin at moodle.com) Saturday, 12 July 2003, 11:39 PM:
Still important, but won't make 1.1
From Enrique Castro (ecastro at dbbf.ulpgc.es) Sunday, 18 July 2004, 03:08 AM:
Hi,
in some forum discussion I have not been able to reacall there has been proposed to use the message rating system. to flag the forums.
I have been using a custom scale for forum ratings: readed/come back/interesting/delayed/erasable
By definition, messages with a rate have been read. And can be established that
I suggest that the rating mechanisms is duplicated, and one used as a message flagging system. To be fully functional, the interface should include global buttons to rate all messages in a discussion (all them, disregarding previous rate, or only yet-unrated messages), and to sort/display the messages by rate
I think this would add only a new field (an not a very large one) to the Moodle forum database.
Enrique Castro
From Gustav Delius (gwd2 at york.ac.uk) Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 03:04 AM:
This is in Moodle 1.5