Attendance (plugin)

I am contributing some en_us language files!  I hope that they are all correct.

I changed the date format to m/d/y
I re-wrote some of the instructions, particularly on the attforblock.php file

I did not know exactly how to name the folders--en_us, I know.  What is en_us_utf8??  You can change that if you want to use these files.

Thank you for a terrific block!

atw

Does this attendance block allow for a teacher to submit/export attendance information to a central database?  We are looking to integrate an attendance module for the entire school, but we want to have the attendance administrators look in one place, and not have to look at every class to see who was absent.

Great job on the attendance block.  Sometimes even with online courses you need to have a unified way to keep attendance.  Will the block be compatible with future versions of moodle (1.7, 1.8 etc.)?

Hi Dmitry

I have just downloaded the attendance block - seems excellent.  However - there's always a clause - when I try to use the multiple session i get the following error message:

Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in d:\users\xxxxxxxxx\public_html\moodle\blocks\attendance\add.php on line 88
 (15 times)

followed by:

Sessions successfully generated

Any thoughts?

Also in the multiple sessions section, if I select a session start date eg 1st Sept 2006 until 31st May 2007 do I have to specify the period and if so can I only do 8 weeks at a time?

 

Thanks in anticipation

 

Aidan

nice work Dmitry. block works fine using 1.6.1+ im sure ppl are excited by the potential functionality of your 'to do' list:

2. Group mode (separated attendance for each group)
3. Periods and multiply session on the same day
4. Backuping
5. Self taking attendance for students

Cheers, Chad

Hello Dmitry,

I am trying to integrate your attendace module. But, the link that you provide (http://download.moodle.org/download.php/modules/block_attendance.zip) misses a few important files like mod.html and version.php, totally preventing installations.

Please advise soon. Thanks,

Murat

Has this block been updated for the newest version of Moodle (1.6.3)??  I just upgraded to 1.6.3 and drug the attforblock mod and attendance mod into my new Moodle install but I'm having problems.  My attendance data is still there but all the dates that I had set are not being shown and there are double brackets around everything.  Luckily my attendance data is still there but not being able to see the dates is a problem.  Hopefully there is an easy fix for this???

Jason

P.S. Here is a screen shot

P.P.S. Sorry, I managed to figure this out even before the 30 minute editing period on my post was up.  I had forgotten to copy the language files over.  There I go again posting questions before I've explored all the options   Sorry.

Hi Everyone,

Just wondering if you can help.

When dumping the attendance results to an excel spreadsheet, the "Student id" column is not what I want to see. In my situation I would like the attendance module to grab the "ID number" from the students personal profile instead.

Can someone tell me how to do this?

I'm a "nuff nuff" when it comes to PHP so I really require a step by step and itemised instructions on what I need to do

Thanks in anticipation

JM

Hello,

I have installed your component and everything works just fine except I am gatting the error A required parameter was missing when i try to access the link Attendances (for Block)

Thanks a lot.

Laura

I am using the latest version of the attendance block and couldn't live without it.  Thanks to Dmitry for this work.

I am having a strange issue however, with grading.  When I take attendance the subsequent scores do not get immediately reported to the gradebook.  For example, if I take attendance and then right after taking attendance if I go to my gradebook and look at the scores, the points for attendance show everything up do the day before the one I just took attendance for.  So if I have class on Monday and Thursday and I take attendance on Thursday and then check the gradebook I only see the scores for attendance up to Monday. 

If I wait for a while (not sure how long yet, sorry) the data shows up.  I've checked my time settings and everything there seems to be ok...

Any ideas?

Thanks

Jason

Hello,

I posted this once before but thought I'd try again. When I click on the "Attendances (for Block)" link that appears in the Activities block I get the "A required parameter was missing" error and then when I click the OK button I get sent to my Moodle front page. I recently had this same error with the Gallery2 integration module (see here) and it was fixed very quickly so I'm wondering if this is a small coding mistake (unfortunately I don't have the knowhow to investigate )

Any help will be appreciated.

Jason

P.S. I have v1.0.8 installed

Dimitry,
attached is sk_utf8 language file for the module.

Do you know approximately when you will release update of the module for Moodle 1.7? The actual version under 1.7 shows teachers among the list of participants (all participants, no groups).
Miro

Is there any way to disable the emails that the attendance block sends? We have to take attendance on two labs of students that are in the same class in moodle. The labs take place at different times so when we take attendance on the first students it sends emails to all of the second group saying that they were absent.