Local plugin to send the same message to forums in multiple courses, with templates, scheduling and send history.
Package tested in: Moodle 4.5, 5.1 and 5.2.
- Wizard to compose one message and post it to forums in several courses.
- Course selection with search, select all visible courses, and a configurable maximum per send.
- Destination forum: Announcements (news forum) or a forum with a specific name (case insensitive).
- Courses without a matching forum that the user can post to are excluded from the send.
- HTML message editor with attachments.
- Reusable message templates (create, edit, delete) and load a template while composing.
- Send immediately or schedule for later.
- Summary step with destination courses and an approximate unique recipient count (enrolled users with a gradebook role).
- Send history with status, detail, duplicate, edit and delete.
- Edit or delete a sent message while it is still inside Moodle's editing window.
- Edit or delete a scheduled message until it is processed.
- Scheduled task to process pending messages.
- Navigation entry and admin settings for users with the corresponding capabilities.
- Log in to your Moodle site as an admin and go to Site administration > Plugins > Install plugins.
- Upload the ZIP file with the plugin code. You should only be prompted to add extra details if your plugin type is not automatically detected.
- Check the plugin validation report and finish the installation.
The plugin can be also installed by putting the contents of this directory to
{your/moodle/dirroot}/local/multiforum
Afterwards, log in to your Moodle site as an admin and go to Site administration > Notifications to complete the installation.
Alternatively, you can run
$ php admin/cli/upgrade.php
to complete the installation from the command line.
Users with the local/multiforum:sendmessages capability in a course
can open Multiforum from that course's secondary navigation:
Course > More > Multiforum
Managers can also open it from:
Site administration > Plugins > Local plugins > Multiforum
The local/multiforum:manage capability is required to change plugin settings,
including the maximum number of courses per send.
Default archetypes:
- Send messages: editing teacher and manager.
- Manage settings: manager.
This plugin originated as one of the winning ideas at Moodle Conecta 2026, from the Comunidad Moodle Medellín.
Initiative led by Catalina Calle, CES Digital Leader, Universidad CES.
- Developed by: David Herney - david dot herney at bambuco dot co
- GIT: https://github.com/bambuco/moodle-local_multiforum
- Powered by: BambuCo
- Show Multiforum in the course secondary navigation More menu.
- First version.
2026 David Herney @ BambuCo
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.