Moodle networking (MNet)

Hi Eddie - we've found the same thing. What's more, if you switch the networked course to being "unenrollable" after you have added students, these courses disappear from the students My Courses block in their home Moodle (item 8 below).

We have identified the following issues we believe need to be addressed and are working with Catalyst (NZ Moodle Partner) on resolving and passing the fixes upstream. We are working on this as part of our "myLearn" project - more detail in a separate thread - and are using our local bug/work request system to log problems - I haven't checked the Moodle bug tracker lately to see if they are replicated there. Because we have uncovered such a number of significant issues with mnet we have shifted the 2nd phase of our project away from exploring the fully distributed network model to a more detailed testing of hub-based model, but with distributed teaching, support and enrolment.

1. Initial user roaming issues that were patched and went upstream to Moodle 1.8 & 1.9 stable in Feb 2008.
2. My Moodle updated to show networked courses. NMIT/myLearn patched on 1.8.4, WR#52033 resolved but not passed upstream and 1.9 version of TANZ Support site required additional patch.
3. Networked courses don’t show in home Moodle “My Courses” block if student is only enrolled on networked courses. Instead the My Courses block shows local Moodle categories. Work around is to enrol all students on at least 1 local course (e.g. generic programme home or help course). Unresolved WR#52033.
4. Links in networked Moodle emails require redirection to local Moodle for login. Partial patch applied to myLearn 1.8, then lost during upgrade to 1.9. Further work has been identified to fix more email links once partial patch has been re-established. Unresolved WR#52032.
5. Mnet students can’t view their Gradebook entries on networked courses. Unresolved WR#54287.
6. Students enrolled via local Moodle Networking -> Enrolments interface are automatically sent a confirmation email. Have requested this is either turned off or made optional. Unresolved WR#54683.
7. Admin user unable to “login as” a networked user. Unresolved WR#54512.
8. Changing the status of a networked course from “Enrollable” to “Not enrollable” results in networked student who are enrolled on it lose it from their home Moodle “my Courses” and myMoodle listings. Raised as issue in myLearn upgrade to 1.9 WR#53391, but not resolved. Work around is to keep all networked courses as enrollable.
9. Issue not yet raised as a WR – we are testing flat file enrolment process as a simple way of allowing networked sites to do bulk enrolments. We have established a "Networked admin" role on the myLearn site and assigned other Moodle admins to this role. The role includes the ability to upload csv files into the myLearn site files area so the myLearn flat file enrolment plug-in can pick up bulk enrolment details there. We may request additional functionality is added to the flat file enrolments process to facilitate students being added to groups within courses. Still exploring the pluses and minus of this approach.
   

Cheers
David