Itamar Tzadok

One possible approach is a forum with posts limit set to 1 per student and only the teacher/administrator is subscribed. Every post will be emailed to the teacher/administrator. The only thing left to feature is to make the forum private per student (if that's a requirement).

Another approach is a database activity set up in a similar way with a patch which emails a notification to the teacher upon adding an entry. The privacy feature is worked around in the database activity by enabling approval and not approving. But I'm not sure that the email patch is updated to v 2.0.

hth

It is possible, but given the current implementation it will require more work than the leading zeros hack.

If the purpose is to separate participants in an activity wouldn't a designated "group" mode be better than personal groups?

Some things behave differently for students and for teachers. If you want to check what students will see under certain settings you need to log in as a student (just switching roles may not suffice).

Add ... is the label of a button for opening a new grade item form and New ... is the title of the form which the button opens. They refer to manual grade item. See docs http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Grade_items#Manual_grade_items.

Manual grades items may be useful when you need a column in the grade report which does not have a corresponding activity in the course. Such columns may hold a specialized grade calculation (search down this forum 'formula' to read about such uses) or some external grades which should participate in the course grade (although for such cases you could also add an offline assigment activity which would add the designated item to the gradebook).

hth

group/lib.php,  function groups_parse_name.

Replacing

$str = str_replace('#', $groupnumber+1, $format);

with

$str = str_replace('#', str_pad($groupnumber+1, 3, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT), $format);

would probably do the trick, such that Gropu 1 would be named Group 001, Group 11 - Group 011 etc. Change second argument of str_pad to 2 for 01, 11 etc.

hth