General plugins

Hi David,

Tutorship was something missing in Moodle, that's why I've developed it.

You don't have to enrol each student in the Tutorship module. A student can click on the tutorship instance module on a course and should select a teacher from a select menu, then the teacher's timetable will be shown. If teacher doesn't have a tutoring timetable then a message should be shown.

HTH

Hi Prakash,

I'm afraid there is no way to use this module for Moodle 2.0 unless you change the code.

As you know, things have change in 2.0, see the release notes.

Hi William,

Can we add message in teacher's timetable? And send it with email notification?

That's something I was thinking on to add for a future version. It could be good to have a form for adding text to the email notification.

If you really want this new feature to be done soon, you could add a new feature request to the tracker:

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB/component/10763

Can we change the periods? It is not same periods in NZ.

For periods, you can change them as administrator, but you must adjust periods before any instance is added to any course, so before you change periods dates, you must delete any module instance added, then:

Visit Settings > Site Administration > Plugins > Module Activities > Tutorship

Then you can adjust your periods dates and you can start using the module adding the instances to the courses.

HTH

Hi Aurelio,

Are the XXXX teacher's enrolled in the course?.

If your answer is yes, then the problem could be that the teachers are "teachers", instead of "editing teachers".

If this is your case you could open an issue in the bug tracker or you can try to modify the locallib.php file, where the tutorship_get_teachers() function is, try to replace it with this code:

/**
 * Gets teachers enrolled within a course.
 *
 * @param  int $courseid Course id.
 * @return object        Teachers enrolled in $courseid.
 */
function tutorship_get_teachers($courseid) {
    global $DB;
    $role     = $DB->get_record('role', array('shortname' => 'teacher'));
    $roleid   = (int) $role->id;
    $context  = get_context_instance(CONTEXT_COURSE, $courseid);

    return get_role_users($roleid, $context);
}

When a teacher creates a tutoring timetable, a new register is created in the "mdl_tutorship_config" data base table with default values. If a teacher changes his/her configuration the record is updated.

Quickest way to solve it:
I suggest you to change all "maxreserves" values from "mdl_tutorship_config" data base table to a number upper 4 and never change teacher's configuration from the teacher's module view. May be this would give you some problems.

If you want a long better solution then you must modify the php code, if you do so, you can open a new issue, as a new feature, on the tracker and upload the new module version. If you want this new feature to be implemented then open a new issue, as an improvement.

HTH

Just posted a review of the module on my blog somerandomthoughts.com

This is the second review of a series of Moodle 2.0 plugin reviews, where i hope to review and check out all the Moodle 2.0 plugins.

I like the plugin, just required making sure those initial settings are correct and the teacher is a "teacher" role, not admin

G.

It turned out that the server was out of disk space.  The issue has been resolved, thank you.

Lisa

Hi Gary, thanks for reporting, I will take a look as soon as I can.

Hi AIB, make sure your timetable is defined for the 3 periods during the course. If you did define the 3 periods, then I should recommend to unistall it and reinstall.

If reinstalling doesn't work, then you should report the issue, and I'll work on it, as soon as possible.

Thanks.