General plugins

The University of Waikato have made a number of changes to the dialogue module over recent months to introduce some new features, modify some existing behaviour and fix some minor bugs. We have also now deployed the module in our production 1.9.4 environment without problem (were previously running under 1.9.3)

We have also re-authored the Moodle Docs page on this module if you would like a less-technical explanation about it's features.

Following is a list of changes made. Click through to the CONTRIB links for more detail and/or the rationale behind these changes:

• reintroduced unread entries tracking (see CONTRIB-1134)
• add validation rules to check value of edittime field (see CONTRIB-1133)
  
• add all-participants option for teachers in non-groups mode (see CONTRIB-1132)
• various fixes and mods to better support student-student mode (see CONTRIB-1131)
  
  • corrected student-to-student behaviour
  • added 'mod/dialogue:open' capability for students in db/access so can initiate dialogues
  • fixed bug with context passing in teacher listing
  • replaced calls to deprecated functions isteacher and isstudent w capability/role checks
  • masking teachers with hiddenroleassignment from view by students
  • fixed bug with group handling/display in SEPERATE-GROUPS mode
  • added contants for dialogue types

Please feel free to check the latest code out of the CVS repository into your Test environment. Alternatively you can click the "Download Latest Version" link on the modules and plugins page. Please also discuss these specific changes under this thread rather than creating a new one, and If you have fixes or bugs to present do this through the tracker area for the module.

Hope this is helpful,
Dean Stringer (Univ of Waikato)