I was wondering how I can let students see who their mentors/parents are. Right now, when I assign a mentor to a student, the menot can see the student listed in their "mentees" block, but the student has no equivalent and has no way of knowing they even have a mentor.
I'm using Moodle version 3.4+.
This is an excellent question.
There seems to be no way for a Mentee to find this out on the site. There's no link or info about this in the Mentee's profile that I know of.
I wonder out loud if this is an issue for GDPR compliance? Shouldn't a user know if another specific user has been assigned the role to them and so is able to see their profile, grades, read their posts, etc.? Seems like a privacy issue.
Obviously, generally speaking, there is some understanding or notification to users about this outside of Moodle, esp in cases of Parent/Child roles. However, it seems an oversight not to have a way to see this in the interface.
For the curious, here is a Configurable Reports query to show the user who runs it who their Mentors are. Tested in M 3.4.
It assumes you have a role with the shortname 'mentor' though you can change that to any such role name, like 'parent'.
This is based the original query by Tim Hunt in this thread: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=199269#p880308
SELECT
CONCAT(u.firstname ,' ',u.lastname) AS 'My Mentor(s)'
FROM prefix_user u
JOIN prefix_role_assignments ra ON ra.userid = u.id
JOIN prefix_role role ON role.id = ra.roleid
JOIN prefix_context ctx ON ctx.id = ra.contextid AND ctx.contextlevel = 30
JOIN prefix_user me ON me.id = ctx.instanceid
WHERE role.shortname = 'mentor'
AND me.id = %%USERID%%
Hi!
Thanks for your comments. I've added a reference to this thread in the issue for including by default the parent role in Moodle: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-14587
Related to the GDPR, We're working on the specification and this will be one of the subjects we'll try to review
Kind regards!
Sara,
Excellent and thank you.
I added a comment to the Tracker and voted the issue up. It's a pretty old issue.
Has anyone brought this up in the GDPR forum yet for discussion? It's a small detail but I think that it should be included in the upcoming new tools to help with compliance.
Creo que también sea útil aconsejar a los moodlers de los foros hispanohablantes que todavía faltan informes o ajustes de esto
Randy
