Enhancing "Recent Activity" Block

Enhancing "Recent Activity" Block

by stefano federici -
Number of replies: 7

I activated several courses for my students and I would like to be able to see all recent activities from all courses in the main page of Moodle. Is this already possible? Can I configure Moodle so that recent activities from all courses are shown in the Home Page? If not, before I start digging, would someone like to direct me to the correct script/function that could be hacked so that to allow this?

Thanks in advance.

Average of ratings: -
In reply to stefano federici

Re: Enhancing "Recent Activity" Block

by Jeff Wood -
Stafano,

I upgrade this weekend to latest 1.7+ and this is what happens. ALL upcoming events for ALL users are being displayed after logging in.

This must be a bug (see http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-7851)

Jeff
Average of ratings: -
In reply to Jeff Wood

Re: Enhancing "Recent Activity" Block

by stefano federici -
Thanks Jeff, but at this time I'm only interested in Recent Activity. In 1.5 (unfortunately I cannot upgrade to 1.7 as my provider sticks to PHP4) I only see recent activity from the main site (mostly replies to "Forum News" posts). But I would like to see in the "Recent Activity" block all changes in the site (from all courses) since my last log in. Is this possible? I could think of implementing this feature myself, but I would like suggestions from Moodle developpers before starting.
Average of ratings: -
In reply to stefano federici

Re: Enhancing "Recent Activity" Block

by Jeff Wood -
Stefano,

I thing you are asking if Recent Activity a course shows can be viewable on the main page?! I don't think so (could be wrong). You might want to try the /my moodle page.

This is accomplished by adding /my after your moodle URL

E.g.

www.mymoodle.com/my

This will list all courses a student is enrolled in plus any new due dates (assignment module) or forum posts. I don't think it will show EVERYTHING that has changed from the users last login, but it might help.

Jeff
Average of ratings: -
In reply to Jeff Wood

Re: Enhancing "Recent Activity" Block

by stefano federici -

Is the "my" moodle a 1.7 feature? I tried it with my 1.5 installation (http://www.sitibs.com/branches/fad/moodle/my) but I got a "Not Found" message. I also tried it after having logged in.

Any more clues?

Average of ratings: -
In reply to stefano federici

Re: Enhancing "Recent Activity" Block

by Jeff Wood -
I think it started to show in moodle 1.6

Sorry no other ideas sad

Jeff
Average of ratings: -
In reply to stefano federici

Re: Enhancing "Recent Activity" Block

by Martin Dougiamas -
Picture of Core developers Picture of Documentation writers Picture of Moodle HQ Picture of Particularly helpful Moodlers Picture of Plugin developers Picture of Testers
Yes, My Moodle is what you want - it was new in 1.6.
Average of ratings: -
In reply to Martin Dougiamas

Re: Enhancing "Recent Activity" Block

by stefano federici -
And, as I said, I cannot afford moving to 1.6... But could you, Moodle developpers, direct me to where to look at the code to modify my 1.5 installation so that I can show recent activities from all courses in my home page? If you already know it. Otherwise I will spend some time (my time is better than yours as the need is mine) in digging Moodle code (that I don't know at all, as I've only used it till now as a naive user).
Average of ratings: -