[Using Sakai] Fancy forums?

[Steve Swinsburg]

Don't forget YAFT (Yet Another Forums Tool) :
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/YAFT/Yaft

cheers,
Steve

On 28/08/2012, at 10:48 PM, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> Or, you could write a JavaScript / JQuery front end to the Sakai forums tool using the Entity Broker API. That would be a neat thing to do!
> 
> adam
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Mark J. Norton
> Sent: 28 August 2012 13:40
> To: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Fancy forums?
> 
> 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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