My school uses another system (Canvas). One of the reasons why they like it is that it has a built-in feature that allows parents to "see" what their child is doing. Is there some way that this can be done in Moodle?
There is a special role which can be given to parents allowing them to see their child's work and activities but not be enrolled in a course or see other people. See Parent role
Hi Mary,
Is there anything planned to make adding parents / mentors to their children / mentees more user friendly? It's quite a task to set that up for a school with let's say 2000 young students.
Is there anything planned to make adding parents / mentors to their children / mentees more user friendly? It's quite a task to set that up for a school with let's say 2000 young students.
I completely agree that it is quite a task and indeed there are a few interesting tracker issues related to the parent role in general ( MDL-17928 and MOBILE-3577 to name but two) I remember the following two plugins coming out a few years back but am not sure how up to date they are: https://moodle.org/plugins/enrol_dbuserrel (This one says 3.7) whereas this one https://moodle.org/plugins/enrol_ldapuserrel only mentions 2.6.....
Joost - I wondered this for a while too. Originally, we had our teachers do this work manually. Then, I came across the NED Mentee Manager (https://moodle.org/plugins/block_fn_mentor) -- it does this work for you with a CSV!
I do not actually have anyone use this block directly, I simply have it installed and only visible to me so I can use it to batch in Mentee/mentor relationships. With it, all you need to do is drop in a CSV (like the one below) into a section of this block and it does all that work for you! Then you just add 1 line establishing mentors
and 1 line per student establishing them as a mentee as well as assignment up to 4 mentors by email (provided they've been established as a mentor earlier in the file, or in na previous file if you are doing this in small batches)
hi John,
That's an interesting block, but sadly... the versions supported are a bit outdated. I wouldn't use a block that's not current or hasn't been touched by a developer for over 3 years.
That's an interesting block, but sadly... the versions supported are a bit outdated. I wouldn't use a block that's not current or hasn't been touched by a developer for over 3 years.