Hi,
Is there anyway to implement and attach an organisational structure to students in Moodle ?
i.e student 1 is in division A and his manager is Bob?
We are using 3.5 Thanks
Leticia
Maybe... see www.iomad.org. It's Moodle with some extra stuff that does exactly that.
Thanks for the reply Howard. I was hoping not to have to change the system. Do you know off the top of your head how long it would take to setup, and how this would affect Moodle upgrades?
Hi Leticia,
you can add the data within Moodle with a little bit of set up, though you would have to code something to actually make an organisational chart with all the data together.
Anyway, within Moodle, you can create your own User Profile Fields: https://docs.moodle.org/35/en/User_profile_fields
Go to Site administration -> User -> User profile field and create a new field: Manager.
If you go to your profile, you'll see that Manager is now available under Other fields. If you expand Optional, you'll also see that Department is already there, so you don't need to create that one.
If you're using an authentication method like LDAP, you can now map those user profile fields to entries in the LDAP record. See https://docs.moodle.org/35/en/LDAP_authentication#Data_Mapping
Once set up, you'll be able to see this data on anyone's profile page.
Mark
Thank for the input. Are you able to then use this field to automatically email student's managers when course enrolments end?