[LPH2005]

Has anyone tried or figured out how to have a forum topic from one specific group “elevated” or “chosen” to be made into a blog post?

I’d love my students to be able to “ask-a-question” and have it become a forum post in a group called questions and later an admin can chose it to become a blog post.

Any thoughts?

[@mercime]

@LPH2005 I’ve haven’t seen anything like what you’ve mentioned. The closest was the SimplePress forum feature http://simple-press.com/features/ under “Components” where it has 1) Blog Posts and Forum Topics can be linked and 2) Share Blog Comments and Forum Posts but no conversions.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Fun idea, but I’ve not seen anything. Wouldn’t be too hard to do. What would happen after you’ve created the post, though? Would you delete the forum? Syncing both seems a bit hard and clunky,

[LPH2005]

@mercime – Yes. I’ve seen the simple press way and use it on a site. It’s very easy to use but something that can elevate a forum topic post to a front page blog post would make life easier for some of my students.

@djpaul – Maybe the blog post should just be an excerpt with closed comments and a link to the original forum post. It could be done manually with copy/paste but an admin ‘check mark’ option to elevate the forum topic would make things easier.