I'm hoping to upgrade to 2.5 as soon as possible since I need to use jquery in a class. Will there be a problem with my Attendance plug in?
Thank you,
Liz
Is Attendance ready for 2.5?
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I'm curious about this also.
Has anyone tried it with Moodle 2.5?
GIT definitely has no 2.5 branch.
-Derek
Re: Is Attendance ready for 2.5?
We have the same problem with our Moodle 2.5 - Attendance is not upgradable.
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OK, I have emailed Artem a little while back, and just now I have messaged him.
I wonder if we need to find some support for Artem in this.
Now I just wait. You don't survive in Moodle-land without some patience.
-Derek
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Guys,
Any luck regarding Attendance ?
Moodle 2.5
Thanks
Nabeel
Re: Is Attendance ready for 2.5?
Derek - I wonder if Dan Marsden might be able to provide some help. I noticed in Github.com that he is listed as one of the maintainers. You may want to chat with him and see what might be arranged. Peace - Anthony
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Ah. Thanks. Dan lives 35km from my house. I never thought of looking at GIT. I'll contact him. This may need $$. Crowdsourcing maybe?
-Derek
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I have not very good news for all. I changed job. And my current work is not related to Moodle. So I haven't time to work on Moodle plugins. If anyone want to work on mod_attforblock I can transfer ownership for repository.
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Artem, this is sad for us I guess. I wish you well, and thank you for your work to date. Go well in your new job.
To the rest of us: now we see how the Moodle Community kicks in and helps move us forward with this one little plugin.
Any ideas and suggestions?
With regards,
-Derek
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Well everybody, I have driven to work through temperatures of around zero and pondered what to do about this.
- I have sent another message to Artem to ask if he had any potentially useful information, suggestions or advice. The romantic view is that someone he has worked for may have a plan, and another developer could take over the project.
- I will create an item on the tracker. (Follow the system!!) I'll email Helen and Anthony.
- I'd be curious to know how many people this is affecting. I'm going to flick off a few PM's today to people who I know have posted about Attendance with a link to this thread.
- I'll post in the lounge.
Why would someone bother to support a plugin? My view (admittedly somewhat rosy eyed in view of actual experience) is that if some middle sized institution uses a bunch of plugins, then if they maintain one, they get some sort of kudos and place in the community. It's "putting a little bit back". The programmer who does the work (and it is usually one although not always) can build up their expertise in Moodle which helps his/her work around Moodle in general. Usually there will be a few others who act as intelligent bug finders etc, so you get a little community emerging around a small section of code. [Now I know that isn't always the case, that some people merely manage code just for their own ends, and not really for any general good of the community] Win win and win.
That's one part of an ROI argument for any of you out there interested in making a case for your place supporting this plugin. I'm sure others will have a better expression of the value of maintaining a plugin in the ecosystem of OS.
Over an out for now. Off to my dayjob.
-Derek
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So, I have been playing with 2.5. Fresh server onto which I loaded a course from 2.4 with users. I then added in the Attendance module. So far, I have been able to add multiple sessions and take attendance without problem. I will update here if anything else pops up but it appears to be working.
This module not being updated definitely affects me. However, I am not a programmer - I know enough about php to be dangerous and make a few simple hacks but that is it. However, I would be happy to test or assist in any way I can to see this module continue.
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Hi Emma
I have a quick question how did you added in the Attendance module?....The Organization I'm with have been using Moodle 2.1 and now we have tried to focus on Moodle 2.5. and for some reason I cannot find modules like the attendance, Structure, and single page course creation which I believe they should be around the Site Administration correct? sorry to ask lots of questions. Thank you.
Re: Is Attendance ready for 2.5?
Modules such as attendance are contributed modules and as such need to be added via FTP directly to the correct folder (eg, mod for a module) on your server - you can get them from the Plugins area of Moodle via the Downloads drop down at the top of this page. So they don't automatically appear in Moodle's site admin until you have uploaded them.
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Here is a link to the page that explains it all. It also has a link to the module.
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I've just picked this up - Artem has transferred the repositories to me and I plan to do some work on them this week - including submitting them to the moodle.org plugins db - thanks to Artem for his work on this - hopefully I'll be able to dedicate enough time to maintaining his plugin.
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Thank you so much, Dan!
We love this plugin and are very happy that we may be able to keep it!
atw
Re: Is Attendance ready for 2.5?
Thank you so much, Dan!
We love this plugin and are very happy that we may be able to keep it!
atw
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Hello
I'm Moodle admin of our High School Intitution.
We are moving from Moodle 1.9 to Moodle 2.5. We use attendance module in Moodle 1.9. I intalled the verson for Moodle 2.4 AND WORKS FINE
But the restore from a course from Moodle 1.9 doen't work.
I used the 2.1.0 - 28 feb 2009 version of Attendance in Moodle 1.9. In that time i develop some functionalities like the possibily to create multiple instances in the same course.
I supose the reason is the restore doen't work is here.
I'm interested about continuing with the develop of that module. How can i participate?
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Hi Fernando - if you fork the existing github repository and file pull requests with your changes that would be great!
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Our teachers love this plugin. We appreciate your hard work.
I wish this came with moodle....
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I know it's not the same.... however, for a client who wanted this function to continue in Moodle 2.6 I suggested for now a single grade item with that same Scale, "Present", "Absent", "Late", or "Excused", and teachers can mark this into the Gradebook.
Permission levels in 2.5
Hi Dan (and others)
We are working in 2.5, and upgrading to 2.7 in near future and are looking at encouraging staff to use Attendance module. However in pilots we have found that non-editing tutors have access to view and take attendance for all groups, rather than just their own groups - we have set up separate groups to use with attendance. All tutors can also view reports for all classes
Is there a way we can restrict access for non-grading tutors (or use another role) which means that a tutor can only view and take attendance for their allocated group .
Many thanks
Hazel
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Hi Hazel,
a number of patches related to group support have been made to the attendance plugin - it's possible the issues have already been resolved but you didn't state which version of the attendance module code you were currently using.