Hello everyone.
Long time no see...
I'm considering starting a new development into activity locking. I've not looked at Moodle for a good 18 months and it seems a lot has changed. Is there still a requirement for activity locking in Moodle? As far as I can see, it is planned to be a core component in Moodle for version 2.0.
If I do create something new, I want it to be as uninvasive as possible - ideally just a module/block combination. Any ideas how I can limit access to an activity without changing core Moodle code? I can't think of any, but I know there's lots of clever people out there.
In reply to Stuart Mayor
Re: Conditional activities: Starting a new development...
by Bernard Boucher -
Hi Stuart,
welcome back.
For the new development of activity locking it depend how much time you have to invest:
A short shot can be to upgrade a version from that table to moodle 1.8 with the same locking mechanism or to upgrade John's score lock to 1.8 keeping depreciated role functions.
If you have more programming power
available then Martin should indicate to you how he planned to do it in moodle 2.0.
I hope it may help,
Bernard
welcome back.
For the new development of activity locking it depend how much time you have to invest:
A short shot can be to upgrade a version from that table to moodle 1.8 with the same locking mechanism or to upgrade John's score lock to 1.8 keeping depreciated role functions.
If you have more programming power
available then Martin should indicate to you how he planned to do it in moodle 2.0.I hope it may help,
Bernard
In reply to Stuart Mayor
Re: Conditional activities: Starting a new development...
by Eric Eberhardt -
Stuart,
Welcome back. I agree with Bernard. John's score lock is a great basis for starting. If there was a way to update it for 1.7+ that would be great. We run it under 1.6.3 and it works great with the exception of tweaking it to work with the survey, certificate modules, and other add-ons. Currently right now score lock doesn't support backup/restore, which makes it hard to use in mass. I think that was planned, but never fully implemented.
If there is any insight into what the architecture Moodle 2.0 might use for AL I'd love to base a project around that, but that is still unclear to me. For those of us that have a dire need for AL until 2.0 something needs to be done in the meantime.
Regards,
Eric Eberhardt
Welcome back. I agree with Bernard. John's score lock is a great basis for starting. If there was a way to update it for 1.7+ that would be great. We run it under 1.6.3 and it works great with the exception of tweaking it to work with the survey, certificate modules, and other add-ons. Currently right now score lock doesn't support backup/restore, which makes it hard to use in mass. I think that was planned, but never fully implemented.
If there is any insight into what the architecture Moodle 2.0 might use for AL I'd love to base a project around that, but that is still unclear to me. For those of us that have a dire need for AL until 2.0 something needs to be done in the meantime.
Regards,
Eric Eberhardt