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Duplicate and Synchronized Topics in Sub-Forums - PHPBB
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Considering the two solutions
put forth in this thread 1) posting a link back to the topic, a "shadow topic" and 2) moving the topic to a new sub-forum, leaving a link behind (another option), I think these ideas are not ideal for providing the best user experience. We have to keep in mind the variety of contexts that PHPBB is used and the experience level of some board users/noobies who may not be familiar PHPBB's hierarchical organization and functions. Given that there is the necessity to limit "noise" in the sub-forums resulting from an over abundance of topics, like adding links to topics as was proposed. In consideration of my audience, students, it does become important to streamline. I use PHPBB as a teaching tool so it becomes necessary to keep forums and sub-forums organized and pruned to minimize 'information overload' for students. Hence this extension request.
OVERVIEW
So my board is organized according to the following description and attachment:
Each class I teach is a forum...e.g. "Digital Media 101." Within that forum (DM101) there are 10 sub-forums that correspond to each week in the term...Week One, Week Two, Week Three, etc. Then within each sub-forum there are topic threads that are being categorized by 3DI's extension called "Topics Hierarchy." That allows me to separate topics by designating a topic as "Global Announcement', 'Announcement', 'Sticky', or 'General Discussion.' You'll notice from the attached graphic that I've also modified the PHPBB source code to clarify each topic category, e.g. 'Lectures, Lessons and Links' or 'Assignments.' (Sorry, but it's a configuration option that I need as well).
EXTENSION DESCRIPTION
It would be useful to be able to categorize a topic and then have that topic span all the sub-forums, similar to the way in which a "Global Announcement' spans all of the forums. So for example, I want a topic called 'Tech Support' placed within a particular sub-forum's 'Announcements'. But I also want that topic to span and be synchronized across all of the sub-forums (weeks) within a particular forum. It'd be nice to select which sub-forums that would include the new topic as well.
Such an extension would eliminate some confusion by introducing additional consistency of organization as my students move from week to week (sub-forum to sub-forum) of the course forum.
HIGHLIGHT AND "MARKED AS READ" POSTS - PHPBB
Details and discussion can be found here...
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=496&t=2448991
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MODIFY FLAGGING/REPORTING POSTS to FEEDBACK - PHPBB
UPDATE: Kind of in place with the built in tools of PHPBB, but could be refined and specialized imo.
Here's the link back to the relevant topic where many of the details
have been outlined.<br><br>
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=496&t=2413986
PM profKroy with a quote and questions please.
What needs to happen...
Students are posting all kinds of information and discussion in my
course forum. Instead of having the reporting system operate as a way
to flag problem posts, I would like an extension to change the
reporting tool into a post feedback tool. This would be an invaluable
way to communicate back to students who use the forum for their online
courses.
First, I would like to control who can report a post. Ideally I as the
instructor/admin, should only have this functionality, but I would also
like to be able to assign student moderators this functionality as
well. I can forego the latter, if it's too much of a problem, but it
would be great to have upper division students, helping lower division
students using this tool.....teaching assistants, so to speak. I think
I can already do this, using permissions, no?
Second, I would like all registered users to see some sort of visual
reference if a post has been reported, or in the case of this
extension, when feedback on the post has been provided. When a student
clicks on the "view post feedback" button, they would see the reported
feedback....like, "this work represents, excellent work," something
like that. Perhaps, the little flag icon they see would be a star or
something, indicating that there is instructor feedback for the
particular post. I am concerned about UI for this so, please work with
me on the details of that. I'm also using a theme that might need to be
dealt with.
I'm happy to foster the development of an extension like this. It would
help turn otherwise unusable functionality, for me, into something very
positive for student learning. The way that I'm using phpBB, I
don't really have to worry about ultra large communities, where things
could run amok. It's a closed community for students only.
PM profKroy with a quote and questions please.
DESC FOR IMAGE ATTACHMENT - PHPBB
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Here's the link back to the relevant topic where many of the details
have been outlined.<br><br>
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=496&t=2349906
What needs to happen...
When students respond to a post that has an image attached,
that image needs to display as a thumbnail in their reply.
The reason is because they are critiquing the image in their
response. It's an online critique of a design. Readers of the forum
need the image for the context, so they can understand the posted
comment/quote.
I'm willing to patron the development of this functionality and give
it away for free to whoever may need it.
It needs to work for phpBB version 3.1.6.
Quoted image needs to be a thumbnail.
PM profKroy with a quote and questions please. *** DEVELOPED -
CURRENTLY IN BETA
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