General developer forum

I always get them (people and admin) mixed up.

In fact, I have renamed the ones in our admin block to say 'enroll students' and 'enroll teachers' to avoid confusion and this seems to be helping my colleagues.

I like this idea a lot!

In my brain I would have logs under General and call evaluation assessment.

Tidying those up is a good idea, but

a) the participants link is not an admin function, it needs to go somewhere, and it would look quite odd in the admin block for students

b) would you just leave the edit profile link alone in its own block somewhere?

Groups is an Adminstration function, so perhaps it should go there. The same is true about Teachers and Students function; these are seen as Administration features. The scheme Paul illustrates for the Administration block is interesting.

Suppose the Online Users and People block were combined. Notice that when you click your name in the Online Users block it brings up the Edit profile screen. That takes care of one function in the People block. Moving Groups to the Administration block takes care of another. If there were a property in the Online Users block that linked to the current Participants screen (could be set by teacher), that would eliminate the need for a People block. Also, can we add a link in the Participants screen to launch the new IM client in 1.5?

Good idea.

Thinking about the educational uses of the blocks, there are really two quite different functions. Administration and participant communication/info searching.

Administration block: I would like to see the participants, groups and enroll students/teachers functions be present in the Administration block and and evolve in a more complex class management direction.
Being able to call up and search for views of particpants listed by alphabetical order of name, student number, group, e-mail address, asignment completed, grade, location, last access, etc. would be great! The current participants listing by name, city, country, and last access only is frustrating for me because I have five hundred users with the same city and country! If only I could search by other categories like student number, group or e-mail and have the results all on one page my life would become much eaiser

I'd also love to see this kind of participants search and view functionality be combined with communications functions like those available with instant messaging or quickmail. A checkbox next to each participants photo and an area for the teacher to send a message would make life so easy that I'd probably be able to take weekends off!

Participants block: I'd love to see this block become customizable at a site or course level. The teacher/administrator could use this block to facilitate communication among participants in the course in ways closely related to the makeup of the class. Maybe the present "name, city, country, and last access" would be kept for courses whose participants came from around the world. I love this function in the moodle.org site. But the teacher may only want to list names and groups, or names and icq contact info, depending on the info that members of the group need to communicate most effectively. Having the option to link this to IM or quickmail (for example - can mail to whole class, can mail to group only, etc.) might also be a plus.

Dreams!! We are working on a customization of the ordinary moodle mail and quickmail functions but mostly to allow mailing Japanese students whose main email connection is from a cell phone.

I wonder if the same thing is happening in other countries but here younger people here are beginning to use cell phone email as a first preference in communication over distance. It is even replacing voice phone calls. The messages Moodle sends cell phones now are often unreadable because of encoding problems or very lengthy standard moodle strings. Has anyone counted the number of dashes "-" in Moodle's mail?

Any improvement in the ability to combine a search for course participants by different criteria, be able to select the method of messaging (IM, Moodle mail, quickmail) and also select the encoding of the message would be desperately appreciated

Love this idea but does it exist?

All the course admin stuff in one place.

Something like the following for people block:

Users

Course Participants
Course Groups (non edit view)
My Profile (view.php - they can edit it once they are in)

New Users

Student D
Student E

Online Users

Student A
Student B
Student C

Messages ...

And the admin menu:

Manage teachers
Enroll students
Manage groups

Nice!!!
How'd you do that?!

Michael

I downloaded the Course Menu Block about a week ago -- very nice work (to engage in understatement).  I would certainly like to see it become part of standard Moodle.  Meanwhile, am I correct that it is probably sufficiently stable for use on a production site (1.5.2 v 2005060222)?

I also just looked at your introduction videos & have a few questions:

1. How do you create these and where can I find instruction?  I need to build something similar for our students & faculty.

2. You showed a Graded Event module.  Where do I download it?

3. You also showed an Import Powerpoint module.  Is that a download or a variation on a standard module?  Where do I download it?

Thanks,

Jim.

I Love Love Love this control panel!  I installed it and have the following error showing up only on my admin page -

Warning: file(f:\easyphp1-7\www\moodle/blocks/block_course_menu/block_block_course_menu.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in f:\easyphp1-7\www\moodle\lib\blocklib.php on line 21

 I dont like to have errors even if they are only on the admin page... can anyone help? 

I was also wondering if it was possible to only show grades to students? we don't want students to edit their email address, username or profile since they connect to active directory.