Add news forum to new courses

This plugin creates a news forum on course creation. This eliminates the requirement to have the latest news block installed in order to create the forum on versions of Moodle prior to 3.2. This issue is fully described in MDL-26707. You do not need this plugin if you are running Moodle 3.2 or higher.
News Forum creates a news forum on course creation. This eliminates the requirement to have the latest news block installed in order to create the forum. This issue is fully described in MDL-26707 .
The plugin has no options; once installed it will create the news forum automatically on course creation. If you later delete the news forum from a course it will not be re-created by this plugin.