Hi all,
We have a lot of groups and cohorts that we use to separate companies that are training through our company's moodle site. That said, it's rather difficult for me to manually create cohort syncs for each and every cohort for every company that uses our site, so I was hoping there was a way to upload cohort syncs through CSV files? Alternative methods are also welcome!
Thanks in advance!
I need to have Cohort SYNCS uploaded, not cohorts. We use many plugins that bounce off of the cohort sync functionality in moodle and making them one by one is too tedious.
I figured out a work around by using the Auto Group feature. Thanks all
Interesting, would you mind outlining briefly how you used the auto group feature? Did you do this instead of cohort sync?
Thanks,
Christoph
Well, it got us to our end goal. Cohort Syncs, with the Profile Field Enrollment plugin, worked together to sort our companies into separate groups. Since I couldn't pre-create all of the cohort syncs because I didn't have pre-created groups to put into the cohort syncs, I needed to find a way to automatically create groups based on the users who entered. So, by using the Auto Group function, I was able to have users automatically grouped into groups in each course based on their course field (custom created check boxes that each list a course we offer). So if someone joined our site, here is how it would go:
Any users from the same company with the same Store ID will be added to the same group.
*correction: I used the Enrol by user profile fields plugin, not the profile fields enrollment plugin (two different things that do different enrollments)
Very clever, thanks for sharing.
Hey Kaesha,
could you tell me how you got the Auto Group plugin to run with a custom profile field?
I cannot get it to run...
1. I have created a custom profile field named "tenant"
2. I added the code : 'tenant' => get_string('tenant', 'local_autogroup')
- in /local/autogroup/classes/sort_module_profile_field.php,
- in /local/autogroup/lang/en/local_autogroup.php,
- and /local/autogroup/settings.php
With this, the settings of Auto Group Plugin shows me in the "Group By" -options tenant in double Brackets
But when i set that Option the Plugin doesn't create groups when i enrol users...
And yes, the users have a value in that field^^
Sadly, the Developer of the Plugin doesn't seem to work on it anymore so that he could fix it (Problem is in BugTracker)
Any Help is Appreciated
Hello,
We weren't able to get it to work with a custom field, so what we did was rename the "institution" field to what we wanted it to say (in our case, Store ID). This way, we were able to have the desired content in the UI, but still use the original SQL institution field.
It's a pretty neat work around, and makes it pretty simple for maintenance.
Unfortunately I think that's not a solution for me since the Profile Field has to be hidden from the User and as far as i know that's only possible to do with custom profile fields.
Thanks for the quick answer
Well, if it helps any, our developer made the field uneditable so that our customers couldn't edit their Institution field after it was filled in by info from another site we connected it with. So that is something you may be able to do (although I have NO idea how it was done).
Best of luck!
