3. Instruction

News Forum Settings

As with any forum, emails can be sent to subscribed members of a News forum.

Changing the subject line of forum notifications

New feature in Moodle 2.7!

Normally when forum subscribers receive emails from forums, the subject line is of the form: Course short name + Subject of post:

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The subject line can be changed - for example to: Course short name + Forum name + Subject by going to Site administration>Language>Language customisation and in forum.php changing the string postmailsubject to

{$a->courseshortname} {$a->forumname} {$a->subject}

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Removing the news forum

The news forum may be removed from a course as follows:

  1. Delete the news forum from the course homepage
  2. In Course settings set "News items to show" to 0
  3. Delete the Latest news block
  4. Alternatively - hide the news forum