Thanks for the detailed answer.
A teacher uses the scheduler to document her appointments afterwards, that's why this question came up.
I think if there is a setting for this then everyone can decide to use it or not.
Thanks
Csaba
In reply to Csaba Gloner
Re: "You can't start an appointment slot in the past"
by Henning Bostelmann -
For upcoming releases of Scheduler (i.e. 2.7 onwards), I have now changed the behaviour as follows:
- Appointment slots can be created/edited in the past (without restriction to -10 days) *if* there's at least one student in the slot.
- If the slot is empty, however, i.e. if no student is assigned, then you can't set the slot date into the past.
I hope this improves the situation.
In reply to Henning Bostelmann
Re: "You can't start an appointment slot in the past"
by Jean Jones Grey -
Thank you for adding the ability to schedule slots in the past. That feature is very useful when your HR team has been doing 3 years of 1-to-1 training sessions and recording the students' names and dates into an Excel spreadsheet... but now they want you to put this training online in Moodle.
We're using Scheduler to add courses called:
- New Hire Onboarding 2014
- New Hire Onboarding 2013
- New HIre Onboarding 2012
... and then adding a Scheduler instance to each one to load the each year's sessions with students into them.
In our scenario, the enrollment will be set to manual and the instructor will be the only one can add students to sessions.
Do you know when 2.7 will be available? We're using Moodle 2.7.2 right now and I downloaded the most recent version of Scheduler but the 'no past scheduling' restriction is still there.
Thanks,
Robin
In reply to Henning Bostelmann
Re: "You can't start an appointment slot in the past"
by Jean Jones Grey -
Thank you for adding the ability to schedule slots in the past. That feature is very useful when your HR team has been doing 3 years of 1-to-1 training sessions and recording the students' names and dates into an Excel spreadsheet... but now they want you to put this training online in Moodle.
We're using Scheduler to add courses called:
- New Hire Onboarding 2014
- New Hire Onboarding 2013
- New HIre Onboarding 2012
... and then adding a Scheduler instance to each one to load the each year's sessions with students into them.
In our scenario, the enrollment will be set to manual and the instructor will be the only one who can add students to sessions.
We're using Moodle 2.7.2 right now and if I add the students while I'm adding the dates, then yes, they are being loaded in just fine for 2013, etc.
One thing that would be very helpful is if we could 'template' more of the fields. For example, have a checkbox next to the year setting and the time setting that you click to indicate 'Keep this date' or 'Keep this time.'
Thanks,
Jean