is it possible for students to self-select groups when they join a course?
I have found out how to manually assign students to groups, but I have not noticed another way. I am working with large groups, so I would love to find a shortcut here...
Any ideas?
Group self selection?
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Yes, I have modified my Moodle installation so that there is an option to allow students to select groups. The way it works is that on the groups page for each group that still has free places in it there is a link "Move me to this group". This link can be used by students who are not in any group to join a group or even for students to change groups. The link only is there for groups that have not yet reached a predetermined maximum size.
If encouraged, I will post the code here later tonight.
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This really is a feature we need!
I'd appreciate it if you posted the code...
I'd appreciate it if you posted the code...
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Attached is a zip file containing my modified versions of moodle/course/groups.php and moodle/course/groups-summary.html that implement the link that allows students to move themselves to a group of their choice. The other modification is that the current user's name is printed in bold.
The code contains a variable $maxallowed that is set to 20. Students are only allowed to move to a group with less than $maxallowed members. This number should of course be set as a configuration option when groups are set up for a course. I leave this for someone else to implement.
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Hi Gustav,
Which version of Moodle is it based on? Will it work on 1.2.1?
Przemek
Which version of Moodle is it based on? Will it work on 1.2.1?
Przemek
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Thanks Gustav and Martin..
I've been using moodle 1.1.1 and 1.4 for a month and I'm ready go get students on this week. I wanted students to have a very simple join wizard dialog.
I'll try the user "changegroup" feature next semester. It is so great to know that moodle is developing well and in a sane manner.
He is my workaround that worked. Take students into a lab setting. Have them all join at the same time. Then before class ends have all the students moved into a group.
I've been using moodle 1.1.1 and 1.4 for a month and I'm ready go get students on this week. I wanted students to have a very simple join wizard dialog.
I'll try the user "changegroup" feature next semester. It is so great to know that moodle is developing well and in a sane manner.
He is my workaround that worked. Take students into a lab setting. Have them all join at the same time. Then before class ends have all the students moved into a group.
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Attached is a screenshot illustrating what the modified files do. John Doe is logged in, hence his name is bold. He can move to group 1 by clicking on "Move me to this group". The code has been in operation here at the University of York for several weeks to allow students to choose their seminar groups and has been working well.
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Works great! Thanks!
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Yes, very nice, will get this into 1.3.
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It would be really nice to have this in 1.4. Is there anything I can do?
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It's kinda pending on the large development done at DCU which does a lot of new group stuff, including self-selection. I haven't yet got to try it out, though. I strongly doubt it will make it into 1.4 at this stage, given the deadline.
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That sounds exciting. How can we find out more about the DCU group stuff? Is there some documentation about it on the DCU site?
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Is group self-selection included in standard 1.5?
If not, would anybody be able to to anything about that, or should we try ourselves? With the groups interface redesign the original Gustav's hack needs an upgrade.
If not, would anybody be able to to anything about that, or should we try ourselves? With the groups interface redesign the original Gustav's hack needs an upgrade.
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Nobody else seems to have added the self-selection to 1.5, so here it is. Feel free to download & use it from http://www.phil.muni.cz/~jarek/moodle/groups/selfsel-latest.zip. Installation instructions are included in the package, usage should be the same as before.
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Sounds super! Does anybody know if it runs in 1.6?
Vera
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We are going to move to 1.6.1 soon, so it is likely I will test it on/rewrite it for 1.6.1 and post the modified code here.
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You can download updated version of the "Group self-selection hack" from here: selfsel-1.6.zip. Groups have been rewritten a bit in Moodle 1.6 and the code seems still a little bit confusing to me, but self-selection should work just as it did in 1.5 or 1.4.
Installation instructions are included in the package, I hope this hack will help someone
Jarek
Installation instructions are included in the package, I hope this hack will help someone
Jarek
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Is there a way to nest groups?
What I want to do is something like:
group1-sub1
group1-sub2
group2-sub1
group2-sub2
but only display the sub groups for the correct parent group and retain unique membership limits for them.
If this was a couple groups/subgroups it would be easy enough to just make them all unique groups but it's actually 6 parent groups with 5 subgroups each.
What I want to do is something like:
group1-sub1
group1-sub2
group2-sub1
group2-sub2
but only display the sub groups for the correct parent group and retain unique membership limits for them.
If this was a couple groups/subgroups it would be easy enough to just make them all unique groups but it's actually 6 parent groups with 5 subgroups each.
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I was using selfsel for 1.6 but it's not work in 1.8.3. I' need to upgrade as soon as posible please help me??
Regards Diego
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Link for the 1.5 version is now selfsel-1.5.zip.
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I can't get this to work in 1.4.3
Could you give me some advice on what I should do to get it to work in 1.4+ or 1.5?
Could you give me some advice on what I should do to get it to work in 1.4+ or 1.5?
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It is diffferent to the method above, but you can set an enrollment key for each group in 1.5, that automatically assigns student to groups.
Timothy
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That sounds interesting. That sounds really useful for classes with dynamic groups, and it may work for me as well. I would be interested in that code if possible.
Thanks
Thanks