[Using Sakai] Fancy forums?

Mark J. Norton markjnorton at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 28 05:40:07 PDT 2012


Sakai has at least (it can be hard to keep track) three forum tools.  
The default forum tool that comes with Sakai is rather old and not 
really up to the standards of modern forum applications.  JForum was 
ported by Foothillls College a few years back.  It has more features but 
isn't all that integrated (has it's own user profiles, for example).  
There is a third, I believe, but I don't recall what it is.

You have even more options these days.  It would not be difficult to 
wrap any forum tool (like PHPForum) using IMS LTI.  A bit of code, a 
hosting environment, and viola! a new forum tool.

- Mark Norton


On 8/27/2012 8:52 PM, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> I notice that the Sakai site at UNC: http://sakaitutorials.unc.edu/?Collaborating:__Discussions_and_Private_Messages
> Shows a fancier forums interface and options.
>
> For one example, I was trying to see if there was an option to display only the "n" most recent topics and messages, and they seem to have that, but the default forum that I see in our 2.8.2 does not.
>
> Is this some configuration option, or a local mod they have installed, or ..?
>
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