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Renaming the blog or putting comments into the blog?
Sadly, it looks like a major hack to implement comments in the current blog How many votes does a feature request need to get on the roadmap? I agree - this is a major downside to Moodle if it hasn't been addressed. Blogs need comments! If nothing else this stub should point people to a way to set up blogs in the way that's been done here, with commenting as a task available on the left of the window.
We want to propose these features :
Quick comment: "Course blogs" are forums.
It looks like OU is contributing a new blog that would have comments: If it would be difficult to add comments to the current blog, could it be looked at to possibly move the OU Blog into core? I believe the term "blog" creates three expectations:
1) The ability to post entries in reverse chronological order. The lack of the later two options, plus the lack of a course-specific blog, is where we see the most confusion among our users. So I echo everyone else's requests, and add the ability to generate RSS feeds for blog posts (just as forums already do). Ken Ken, I'd have another expectation:
4) Categories Say a student is in a course EDUC223. Here the debate on 'what is a blog' gets a little murky. Should you be able to have a Blog roll? Branding (as in a silly/catchy name)? Tags? Tag clouds? Hi,
We have contracted a 3rd party developer to add "comments" functionality to the blog in our Moodle installation. Development should be completed by the end of this week. I will be more than happy to share our source code with whomever would like it. Let me know if you are interested. Regards Julian Hi,
Our development has been completed on the blog commenting functionality. You can see it in action here: http://www,change-management-community.com It has been developed for us by one of the official Moodle partners. If you are interested in using this code, pls let me know. Hi Julian
i saw your "comments in blog posts" feature on your site and it looks great. btw, you miss-spelled your site's url. Just FYI: Blog comments have been implemented in Moodle 2.0 using the new Comments API (which is the same mechanism for comments on glossaries, database entries, forum posts, user profiles etc etc. There is even a comment block now which lets you put comments on any page. (A bit like shoutbox)
Blog comments don't seem to be working just now in head at all. Can you investigate?
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(That's where I found this issue.)
I believe that mechanisms should be in place to make any public posted entry as accessible as possible.
For this, forums are better than blogs, because they're topic rather than person-based.
When it comes to replies, blog 'comments' are subordinate to the poster, who owns the head entry.
Forums are more egalitarian.
Moodle should concentrate efforts on forums, because they are 'best practice' for collaborative discussion, irrespective of web fashion.
However, given that ideas do get written into blogs, it should be possible to respond to them. All the better if the mechanism ensures that the entry also makes it into a topic-based forum, from where it can be taken up by others who didn't chance by the blog.