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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-64918

Display new forum posts indicator on dashboard

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      THIS IS AN MUA PROJECT PROPOSAL THAT WILL BE OR HAS BEEN SUBMITTED FOR POSSIBLE MUA FUNDING. 

      Overview

      The old pre-3.5 dashboard used to have a "new forum posts" indicator - this was especially useful at our uni for teaching staff to be able to scan their courses and quickly see which need attention but i assume it was also also pretty useful for students. Teaching staff complained when it went anyway.

      I think if possible it would be useful to extend this to include a notification for the course on the dashboard to display an icon with an indication of "new posts/entries" for a range of activities included in that course, but initially the forum is the key thing, and already has the "unread posts" functionality.

      Tracker link: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-58913

      Summary

      • Project size: small/medium
      • Audience: primary schools, universities, work places
      • Target users: teachers, students

      User Stories 

      As a teacher, I should be able to view an indicator to highlight the number of new forum posts for a course since my last visit.

      As a student, I should be able to view an indicator to highlight the number of new forum posts for a course since my last visit.

      Links to existing tracker issues, forum discussions, contrib plugins

      https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-58913

      https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-63051 says it was planned at some point for 3.6 work but got shelved.

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              mnodding michael Nodding
              David Woloszyn, Huong Nguyen, Jake Dallimore, Meirza, Michael Hawkins, Raquel Ortega, Safat Shahin, Stevani Andolo
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