Reactions

Modern emoji reactions for Moodle forum posts.
Modern emoji reactions for Moodle forum posts.
This local plugin adds an emoji reaction bar to forum posts, allowing users to react with configurable emoji (e.g. thumbs up, heart, laugh). Reactions are anonymous — only aggregate counts are displayed. Users can select multiple emoji per post.
Features
GitHub-style trigger button with popup emoji picker
Reaction count pills displayed inline alongside post actions
Multi-react: users can add multiple different emoji to the same post
Per-forum enable/disable via forum activity settings (off by default)
Site-wide admin setting to enable/disable globally
Admin-configurable emoji set
Anonymous display (counts only), with full user logging in the database
Works with dynamically loaded inline replies via MutationObserver
Includes a course-wide Reactions report
Tested on Moodle 4.5 Boost theme and Snap theme