Course events not showing in admin site calendar, despite "admin's see all"

Re: Course events not showing in admin site calendar, despite

by cwadmin 1 -
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Good idea, hadn't considered that as a potential issue

Looking at out database events table we have about 600 events in total, including assignment deadlines etc.  I didn't think thats excessive but maybe there's something in the site settings which is exacerbating the issue.

Because of this events issue, I've been holding off creating events for the 15/16 academic year so there's nothing but one test event for September onwards, but looking at June 2015 we had 30 events in total for the month.

May or may not be relevant that we have the calendar lookahead set to 1 year, versus default of 3 weeks (see screenshot below).  I thought this only affected the "latest events" block.  I have just tried reducing this value to 2 months and creating a new event within a course but I still couldn't see it as admin.  We also have calendar export lookahead and lookback set to 365 days, but again I understood that was only for iCal exports.

I suppose the next logical step might be to start deleting old events and seeing if new , but I'm loath to do this as they're a part of our archiving records.  Does 600 events sound high enough to cause issues?  If its relevant we're using the Essential theme.

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Re: Course events not showing in admin site calendar, despite

by Алексей Кадин -

Well, the calendar lookahead and calendar export settings are not our case, I think.


There was a restriction for daily amount of events, figures like 20 for student and 50 for admin, independent from 'admin see all'. Not in the site settings, somewhere deep (or not deep) in the plugin code. We couldn't manage with it, so we decided that all-site admin do not have to see all events and he can see course calendar if he needs.


So, it's daily restriction including test and assignment startlines and deadlines and "events in realization" - starting before this day and/or finishing after this day. Nothing about old events. And in your case the daily amount now was like 1 event. And I can not guess, how your old events can affect this. Can your try to create site event, user (your) event, will you see them? And trying to turn off "latest events" block?

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Re: Course events not showing in admin site calendar, despite

by cwadmin 1 -

Thanks for your response

I tried turning off latest events plugin but didn't have an effect.  Both site and user events are shown in the admin calendar no problem (obviously user events in the calendar of that admin only).

I did a little more testing and worked out that I can set course events in courses from last academic year (14/15) with a date for this year (15/16) and it will show.  e.g. I createa course event from last year's "xyz course 14/15" on 5th October and it shows in admins' calendar, but if I create an identical course event in "xyz course 2015/16", it doesn't show up in the admin calendar.  It also turns out that group events within the 15/16 courses do show in the calendar, so this only applies to course-level events in the new year.

I have courses organised in categories, so I tried creating a test course in last year's category alongside the functioning courses, but this didn't work so its something specific to the courses (rather than at category level) and course events.

I wondered if it might be related to the start date of courses being in the future, but tried changing this so the start date is in the past (thinking that it might not put dates in the admin calendar until they become "current") for existing courses and for a newly created test course and didn't help.

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Re: Course events not showing in admin site calendar, despite

by Ohad Dekel -

Hi,

Did you find any solution?

I have the same problem on my site and even wrote about it on some of the forums, but still no answer.
It started happening last year when we added more courses to open the spring semester (Moodle 2.8.5)

I tried all the stuff you mentioned too, didn't help. Upgraded to Moodle 2.9.1 and still no luck.

I am sure it's some kind of course limit, all events I create on old courses, do work.

We will be opening the year in 2 weeks and I don't have a way to see the entire schedule.

Any help will be really appreciated...


Thanks.

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Re: Course events not showing in admin site calendar, despite

by cwadmin 1 -

Hi Ohad,

No solution yet I'm afriad, but its nice to know we're not the only ones having this issue.

There could be mileage in it being a limit related to the number of courses.  We just need to delete half our courses to test the theory! smile  That said, I'm struggling to see how that would be the issue with much bigger organisations presumably with many more courses and events using Moodle than us. 

As you're having a similar problem, we can hopefully exclude a few things like the theme.  We're using Essential, what theme are you using?  We have 113 Moodle courses, how many do you have?

We've started running courses for 15/16 without admins being able to see the full schedule as well unfortunately, though students and tutors specifically allocated to courses can still see the events/course dates, which probably accounts for me not having been lynched by tutors and students yet smile

Thanks

C


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Re: Course events not showing in admin site calendar, despite

by Ohad Dekel -

Hi C,

I tried deleting all old courses events (leaving just assignments events), and again, no luck.

As you said, the last option is to delete half of the old courses but it seems far fetched as our site has less then 60 courses. I feel like we are missing something because there is no way that this problem is not a big issue for bigger organizations.

We are using More theme for now and planning on switching to Evolve-D in few days.

BTW, some of our courses are in Hebrew and some in English so we can exclude languages too.

My next test is to export reports and check there.

Cheers,

Ohad


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