sorting the students according to email id or username??

sorting the students according to email id or username??

by Harshad Mande -
Number of replies: 4

hey guys:

first and foremost hats off to Dmitry for the wonderful module.. we r extensively using the module in r college. i just have one problem. when the teacher takes the attendance.. the student names are shown.. i wud rather prefer the student username to be shown. since we take attendance according to roll nos. btw what is it that the moodle package uses to sort the users when displaying theirnames while taking attendance!!..plz suggest quickly..

thanking u..

Yours sincerely

Harshad Mande

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Re: sorting the students according to email id or username??

by Dmitry Pupinin -
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You can simple change one line in attendance.php for choose sorting 'by default':

attendance.php line 17
change
$sort = optional_param('sort','lastname', PARAM_ALPHA);
to
$sort = optional_param('sort','username', PARAM_ALPHA);
You can also use 'email', 'id' etc.
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Re: sorting the students according to email id or username??

by Harshad Mande -
Thanks a lot.. i guess it should work!!..
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Re: sorting the students according to email id or username??

by Harshad Mande -
well i am afraid after i made the above change, when i click the 'take attendance' option.. it shows nothing to display!!.. wot cud be the problem??..
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Re: sorting the students according to email id or username??

by Alexandre Marinho -
Hello, Dmitry

Thanks for your help.

I woul like to classify the aprticipants in every block (grade, participants, spresdsheet excel file) by firstname and lastname.

How could I do that?

Thanks again
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