Plenary meeting activity

Plenary meeting activity

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I have been working on a new Moodle activity module to facilitate meetings in person and online. The activity is meant to encourage the use of parliamentary procedure to provide an organized meeting experience and to facilitate record keeping. Users can submit motions and vote on them with actions recorded. After the meeting, the records can be used to generate minutes or be assessed for grades or other feedback provided.

For online meeting, that activity may be used with included optional conferencing integrations using either Jitsi meet or the system in Deft response block or with an external conferencing system alongside the activity.  The activity can be configured to adjust for different types of meetings.

The code is now available at https://GitHub.com/dthies/moodle-mod_plenum. If you want to try the activity, you can create a free user account and a sample course and have a meeting with a small group at https://deftly.us.

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From your description, this would seem to be an extremely useful plugin activity module. I would be willing to be a group member for anyone wanting to try it out.
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This plugin is now available in the plugin database. I am currently working on an improved Jitsi Meet integration that will handle queuing like the Deft integration from https://deftly.us. This allow sites to more fully use the plugin with self hosted Jitsi servers.
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I just released a new version which includes ungraded Jitsi meet integration. The Jitsi server is now able to queue motions on the view page in real time. An option has also been added that behaves like the Deft integration using a Jitsi Meet server as a back end to allow more complex meetings to be fully self hosted.
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To everyone,

This is a really nice to have plugin. So far I have only tested with the Deft integration on my private development server, but will try the Jitsi stuff in the next day or two. I can grant access to anyone who wants to try it out, but doesn't want to install or set it up themselves. In fact, yesterday, I was setting up a, Plenary, activity in a course and was logged in with four accounts, when I received a message from Daniel. I invited him to join me, which he kindly did using another teacher account I already had available. He talked me through the final setup steps that I needed to get audio and video working. Next thing I knew, three and a half hours had gone by.

The parliamentary procedure capabilities worked just like they were supposed to but to me the best part was the Deft block that provided the audio and video capabilities. In the past, I have struggled for days to get other video plugins to work with very little success. The, Plenary plugin with Deft, just worked! All I had to do was the usual plugin installs, set a couple of options, and enable audio and video and everything just worked for hours!

One of the things I used to enjoy when I was going to a brick and mortar college, was showing up for class early and talking to everyone as they came in before the class started. If you have a scheduled online class time, with this setup you can even do that! It does help to have an, Online users, block set up so that you can see if anyone is there in the course. Once they've used this setup, they would just know to go ahead and click, Join, and do some chatting while waiting for everyone else to log in.

There were some other possibilities that we discussed, but my eyes are doing their usual imitation of sandpaper from too much screen time already, today, so I better quit and go pamper them.
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