Introducing the Face-to-face block

Introducing the Face-to-face block

by François Marier -
Number of replies: 31

I have just created a new block designed to complement the Face-to-face activity module.

Right now, it links to a page that does two things:

  • lists all sessions where you are a teacher
  • lists all sessions where you signed up

The listing can be sorted on any field, restricted to a date range and exported to ODF/Excel format.

It's currently available from this page. If there's enough interest and people think that it's useful, I'll create a proper page for it and link to it from the other Face-to-face page.

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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Scott Karren -
Francois

Interesting block, does what you see depend on the role that you have? Meaning, if I am a teacher then I will see all sessions that I am teacher in and if I am a student then all I will see are the sessions that I am signed up in.

Scott Karren
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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by François Marier -
Yes, it depends on the capabilities you've got. So if you are a teacher (as defined by "you can see the list of attendees in a course"), then you will see the sessions that you are teaching.

If you are a student, you will only see the sessions that you are signed-up for.

Francois
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by Scott Karren -
Great, this will be very useful to the 30 or so Instructors I have. Thanks again.

Scott Karren
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by Iyappan Krishnaswamy -
I had installed the new face-to-face block for the moodle 1.9 and it works great. It will be more useful if the listing can be stored into a PDF file for storing into ODF file.

Thanks

Iyappan
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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Timo V -
Um.. I'm probably missing something but where is the language file for the block?
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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by François Marier -
Thanks for reporting this missing file Timo. It's now in CVS, it should make it to the zip file soon.
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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Timo V -
Finally had some time to check out the block.. It's great! Works like a charm.
It would be very useful for a student to see 3 additional things:
  • sessions you've had (mdl_facetoface_submissions.grade = 100)
  • sessions you've signed up for but haven't attended (mdl_facetoface_submissions.grade = 0 and mdl_facetoface_sessions_dates.timestart < current datetime)
  • upcoming sessions (as it is already)
I've implemented this with separate reporting software, but these would be nice to see in the block itself as well. What do you think?
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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Chris Creed -
Hi François

I have this problem when debugging is turned on:

if (!$records or 0 == count($records)) {

Any ideas as to how I can fix it?

Thanks in advance for your help

Chris

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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by François Marier -
Hi Chris,

Which page is this error coming from? Which file does it relate to?

Also, what's the exact error message?

Cheers,
Francois
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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Dorel Manolescu -
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Hi
I want to use this block in our production enviroment because it seems to me very usefull. I would like to know if the block is still maintanined and if it is possible to have one row for each session.
Thank you!
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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by François Marier -
The Face-to-face block is still maintained and will get a facelift in the next few weeks.

Cheers,
Francois
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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Scott Karren -
Francois

What kind of features can we look for in this facelift?

Scott Karren
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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Jon Boggiano -
We are using Face-to-face and your above Module seems interesting because the issue we have is that the current permissions are all or nothing, meaning an instructor sees all the sessions or none.
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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by François Marier -
Hi Jon,

Unfortunately, this is a limitation of the fact that the Face-to-face module is a single Moodle activity.

The Moodle permission system is as granular as individual activity instances, but no more.

If that's a problem for you, the only work-arounds would be to:
- split your trainings into different separate Face-to-face activities
- or have someone other than the teacher handle the attendance marking.

Francois
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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Joachim Vogelgesang -
German translation of 'Face-to-face block'
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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Michelle Eames -

Hi I have just added this block but when I go into the block I can't see anything.  i have

You can view attendees in the following sessions:

You cannot view the attendees of any session in the given date range.

You are signed-up in the following sessions:

No sign-ups could be found in the given date range.

This happens when I am logged in as a student and as administartor. 

There are activities and signed up activities.  What have i done wrong?

 

Thanks

 

Michelle

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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Aaron Barnes -

Hi Michelle,

Currently the face-to-face block does not support the latest face-to-face module. I hope to release a fixed block soon.

Cheers,
Aaron

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by Michelle Eames -

Thanks.

It was probably part of what i was looking for.  the other option I have is Sharepoint Employee templates. Which has the My courses option.  But I'd rather use Moodle!

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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Michelle Eames -

Hi Aaron

Any news on the block fix?  Is it vastly different or something our devlopers could change the code in (bearing in mind they don't know Moodle)?

Thanks

 

Michelle

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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Michelle Eames -

Hi Any news on a fixed block for 1.9 ?

Is it a simple change or a piece of code to add in?

Thanks

 

Michelle

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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Alastair Munro -

Hi Michelle,

I've made a few minor tweaks to the block and the released a new version which is available from: https://github.com/totara/facetoface-block-1.9/zipball/v1.1

I'm hoping to get a new page created for the face-to-face block shortly.

Cheers,
Alastair

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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Michelle Eames -

Brilliant!

 

thanks

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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Ailsa Enting-Hawke -

Hi, I love the idea of this block, sounds fantastic! Just wondering if there is going to be/already a release for Moodle 2.3 or 2.4?

Thanks!

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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Michelle Eames -

I hope so - I found it really useful to be able to direct students to it.

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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by John Just -

We are using face-to-face for only a select number of courses but the notices are showing up in all of the Upcoming Events block in all of our courses. Is there a way from site adminstration to not have these appear?

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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by vivek arora -

Login as administrator

Settings->Site administration->Development->Debugging

Select NONE: Do not show any errors or warnings and uncheck all the checkboxes on debugging page and save.

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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Gordon McLeod -

There's an issue on the tracker about this - F2F displays as global site events on the calendar, not course specific. I've also found it displays on the site calendar even if you uncheck the "show in calendar" tick box. The suggested fix has been to update F2F to give users the option of global or course specific calendar display, but I've not heard when that might be available.

Here's the link to the tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-2850

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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Jeremy Schweitzer -
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If you uncheck the Show on Calendar option it still displays as a user event, but it does not show up as global event (regular users and non-logged in users can't see it), so at least on our site it works exactly as advertised.

I'm not sure anyone is currently working on the calendar context issue.

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Re: Introducing the Face-to-face block

by Alastair Munro -

Hi Gordon,

There have been some major changes in the way that calendar events work in the latest version of Facetoface (2.2.3) that was released today.

Hopefully the new settings should allow you to achieve what you want to.

Cheers,
Alastair

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