Hello,
I just saw some post where sombody mentions that due dates (assignments) automatically appear in the calendar. Is that true ? There is no documentation about it.
In our case (Moodle 2.4), this does not work but
- scientist don't want to put a cron job on the server so I just lauch it manually once a day
- maybe I have to configure something somewhere ?
Thank you for any help with this...would be a reallly good tool !
Ulrike
Hi Ulrike,
It just stroke me as odd the "don't want to put a cron job on the server" part, and I just wanted you to know that the cron job doesn't have to be at the server, it can be located somewhere else: Using third party cron service, Cron settings.
Thank you Guillermo for that information.
Hello,
I just see that this information appears here. So that's the answer to my first question (so assignment dates ARE automatically added to the calendar - really practical!) - as to my second one, well it cannot be the Moodle version, so ot's either a bug of our Moodle site, or the cron problem.
Ulrike
Hello Ulrike,
Oh, things change now, I thought that they didn't want to enable the cron system in the server; but now you mention that they cannot, or haven't been able to, do it. Maybe you would like to provide more information about the environment (OS, etc.) and about the steps that they have followed to enable cron.
The assignment due dates should show in the mdl_event table. Do you have database access to confirm if the data is making it to that table. I am assuming your are using the new assignment module that was introduced in moodle 2.3, mod/assign, as opposed to the legacy mod/assignment.
Guillermo is correct that if you provide the version of moodle and environment information it will be much easier to assist you.
Thanks!
Hello,
Thank you both for your replies ! We use Moodle 2.4, and I just checked and see that they disabled assignment 2.2 so we work with the new one.
As to the cron, you wouldn't believe it, but it's just about burocracy (they tell me they have to check that out, and are checking it out since about one year and a half - and I don't have a server access). But I don't give up, they'll put it one day.... I launch it once or twice a day manually.
But actually, I saw that on our test platform (that one is 2.5), the calendar does work (the date of an assignment I created was automatically added) - and I suppose that there's no cron for that platform either...
One other question : besides assignment due dates, are there any other dates that should appear on the calendar?
Thank you very much for your help !
Ulrike
PS: as to the environment, I'm going to ask, and come back when I get an answer
It was just a matter of will from their part
Glad to see it's working now
