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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 :
- Having a Course Blog feature separate from users blog, where the teachers will have the course Blog, separate from his own personal blog . - The course Blog can be visible to all in the local Moodle site of the institution, or just to the stuidents of that course. - Having links ( or mashups´!) from anothers blogs inside course blog - Develop a "podcast" feature in the Blog, user can generate podcasts. - Develop a "video" feature in the Blog, user can store and display video. - Navigation to the course Blog interface to Course Blog be presented more friendly to the users. - Including comments for each post. - Editing comments with a aprovall. - Including title and description to a blog. - Navigation by date. - Search feature. - Notify by email for new posts. - Ranking of most visited Blogs. Quick comment: "Course blogs" are forums.
It looks like OU is contributing a new blog that would have comments: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94623#p418128 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. 2) The ability to post comments on individual entries. 3) The ability to subscribe to an RSS feed of entries, comments or both. 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. To be able to get an RSS feed from a student blog with the category 'EDUC223' so for this student's blog I only get the posts relevant to me sent to my feed reader. 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? No. I'd say definitely your #1-3 is core, I think also my #4. We definitely need comments and RSS. I'd like categories. - Derek |
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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.