Moodle

Posting by Email

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  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 1.5
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Forum
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  • Environment:
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Description

How about the ability to post to the forums via email?

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Martin Dougiamas added a comment -

Assigning to me temporarily because Vy-Shane no longer works for Moodle HQ.

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Martin Dougiamas added a comment - Assigning to me temporarily because Vy-Shane no longer works for Moodle HQ.
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profboy added a comment -

One of the most challenging aspects of online instruction is creating a natural conversation in the forums. This is especially hard with small class sizes. By allowing replies to forum posts by email, it would help speed up the response time which would make the forum feel more interactive and more like a natural conversation.

There has been some discussion of this functionality:

<a href="http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=14027">Reply to forum by email</a>
<a href="http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=109517">Post to forum via email</a>

Someone has done some technical planning for this feature using a session ID in the email.
<a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Email_interface">Email interface</a>

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profboy added a comment - One of the most challenging aspects of online instruction is creating a natural conversation in the forums. This is especially hard with small class sizes. By allowing replies to forum posts by email, it would help speed up the response time which would make the forum feel more interactive and more like a natural conversation. There has been some discussion of this functionality: <a href="http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=14027">Reply to forum by email</a> <a href="http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=109517">Post to forum via email</a> Someone has done some technical planning for this feature using a session ID in the email. <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Email_interface">Email interface</a>
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Vernellia Randall added a comment -

This is an important management tool for teachers. It would allow me to post materials and news items without having to enter moodle. I manage 3-4 courses a semester on moodle having to cut and paste items into forums is time consuming.

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Vernellia Randall added a comment - This is an important management tool for teachers. It would allow me to post materials and news items without having to enter moodle. I manage 3-4 courses a semester on moodle having to cut and paste items into forums is time consuming.
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Michael de Raadt added a comment -

I just stumbled across this issue while I was looking for another.

Certainly adding this potential would certainly be very useful. I monitor forum posts in my courses using my email client and it would be good to be able to respond quickly this way.

Another thought I had was that this could leave the forums a target for spoofed messages. It is possible to forge an email sender in an email. To work around this, the header could be checked, but an additional peice of hidden secret information, relevant to the thread, could be included in messages.

Michael;

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Michael de Raadt added a comment - I just stumbled across this issue while I was looking for another. Certainly adding this potential would certainly be very useful. I monitor forum posts in my courses using my email client and it would be good to be able to respond quickly this way. Another thought I had was that this could leave the forums a target for spoofed messages. It is possible to forge an email sender in an email. To work around this, the header could be checked, but an additional peice of hidden secret information, relevant to the thread, could be included in messages. Michael;
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Ken Tuley added a comment -

i think this feature will increasingly become "necessary". While it is possible to call up the browser and thus the forum to post, the ability to post via email should certainly be considered. I also understand it's not an easy fix, as we don't want anyone not associated with the forum to be able to post. (ie spammers) I think there could be some notification on the post, that it was sent via email. (kind of like the "edited by" line that is added when you edit a post.

and obviously it should be a "feature" that can be controlled via roles.

Thanks for considering this!

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Ken Tuley added a comment - i think this feature will increasingly become "necessary". While it is possible to call up the browser and thus the forum to post, the ability to post via email should certainly be considered. I also understand it's not an easy fix, as we don't want anyone not associated with the forum to be able to post. (ie spammers) I think there could be some notification on the post, that it was sent via email. (kind of like the "edited by" line that is added when you edit a post. and obviously it should be a "feature" that can be controlled via roles. Thanks for considering this!

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