Tuesday 4 September 2012

Removing default Moodle News Forum

New Moodle users will have found that a new course/module often has a rather difficult to remove "News Forum" in the first post of the course/module.

You can edit that first and remove the forum and think you've removed it.... only for it later to magically reappear.

What you need to do is go to the "Module Administration" menu, then "Edit settings" menu item to edit the global module settings. Then it's the "News items to show" menu item you need to edit, make it read "0".

This disables the "Latest News" block on the module from promoting news items, but also removes the News Forum resource item entirely from the first post block. You can easily add your own forum later if you like.

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