brickfield / moodle-mod_board

The Board module for Moodle is a plugin that enables a post-it board activity for students.
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Brickfield board module plugin

Copyright (C) 2023 Brickfield Education Labs

What is Board?

The Board module for Moodle is a plugin that enables a post-it board activity for students. This is a collaborative activity where the teachers sets out a number of columns with editable names and then students add contributions to a column. Students do not see who has posted what.

On the board activity, students can:

They can also do the following depending on the settings of the teacher:

The teacher can set up the board activity with the following options:

On the board, a teacher can:

Funding credits

Initial funding for this plugin was provided by the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University under the SATLE fund from the National Forum. Subsequent funding has been received from Athlone Institute of Technology under the SATLE fund from the National Forum, and also from UCL.

Version support

This plugin has been developed to work on Moodle releases 4.00, 4.01, 4.02, 4.03, 4.04, and 4.05.

Development

This plugin has been developed and is maintained by Brickfield Education Labs. If you wish to contribute funding to the ongoing development of features and / or maintenance of the plugin - please contact support@brickfield.ie.

This module uses code derived from "jquery.editable.amd.js". This code written by Victor Jonsson is licensed under GNU GPLv2.

Icon design

Many thanks to Stuart Lamour for our new board icon! Also thanks to Luca Bosch for our updated 4.04 icon!

Documentation

All public documentation for this plugin is maintained at the Brickfield board helpdocs site.

Important Links

Installation

Further installation instructions can be found on the "Installing plugins" Moodle documentation page.