3.2.2 News Forum and one-way communication
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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:
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:
- Delete the news forum from the course homepage
- In Course settings set "News items to show" to 0
- Delete the Latest news block
- Alternatively - hide the news forum