Kristina Schneider

I've been looking through all the standard activity types and many of the contributed modules and plug-ins looking for a way to schedule an activity for all participants in a course.

Essentially, what I need to do is let people know the time at which online meetings will be happening. I have not been successful with the plug-in for Acrobat, and in any case, we hold open meetings where anyone who has the URL can join (this has more to do with the amount of licences and concurrent users than anything else).

The essentials of what I need to provide are:

• an event with a date and time (which will convert to my participant's time zone) and
• a link to join the event.

Just as simple as that. Exporting the event with an iCalendar would be icing on the cake, but I'll settle without it.

Am I missing something? Does this not already exist? If not, does anyone have any creative work arounds?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Kristina

Hi - first of all, let me say what a great initiative this is. That said, I'm having some trouble getting this to work. And though I usually like to figure things out myself, I'm just not wrapping my head around this one as effectively as usual.

Before I begin, I want to verify one thing.

1. The way we have our Adobe Connect system set up is on a server hosted by a 3rd party reseller. From what I've read so far, this isn't going to be an issue, right?
2. The way we set up our sessions is using the option that anyone that has the URL can join. Is this setup going to work with your module?
3. We need to have the time of the session be reflected in the user's time zone. We normally have participants from about 30 countries in each course so this is vital. I'm assuming this is standard but I need to double check. This is the main reason I'd like to use this application rather than just using the *Insert URL* feature.

Once we get past these questions, I'm going to need your help filling out the following. When I enter the following, I get a pop-up window which indicates that "The property 'login' is empty, please input a value and save the settings". When I click on "More information about this error", I am directed to a Moodle docs page which has not been documented yet. http://docs.moodle.org/en/error/adobeconnect/error2

Thanks in advance for your help!

Kristina

I accomplished this by creating a new folder entitled moodle/images/ and put the images there. I think it's safer to have the images on the same site than on another site.

Thanks for your additional feedback.

And thank you for responding!

Unfortunately it can be difficult trying to help with Moodle 1.7 problems, because a lot has changed in later versions. For example, the highlighted background that Tim mentions is only included in Moodle 1.8 onwards. Also, as you've no doubt found, testing a new role is very time-consuming, as any changes that you make only appear when a user with the new role next logs in.

It is very time consuming, you are right! But what I find frustrating is that I set certain permissions which aren’t actually attributed. The options are in fact misleading.

Although you mentioned that upgrading at this time is not an option for you, bearing in mind the large number of roles-related bugs which have been fixed in Moodle 1.8, I would recommend that you consider upgrading sooner rather than later.

This is a very touchy subject, but unfortunately given the circumstances of this project, this is unlikely to be an option.

In the meantime, I'm wondering whether the problem you describe is caused by the coordinator requiring additional teacher capabilities to be allowed. I suggest you look at the list of allowed capabilities for the teacher role (via Administration > Users > Permissions > Define roles) and try allowing some of them, e.g. moodle/course:manageactivities or moodle/course:viewparticipants, for the coordinator role.

I’ve tried many combinations, I guess that’s about all I can do right now because it seems I’m running out of options quickly.

Best wishes and thanks in advance for your feedback.

Of course I’m quite grateful for the help that you and Tim have given me. However, and this I know is out of yours and Tim’s control, I have to say I’m really not impressed with this situation. Upgrading versions on a large project are not always possible - we usually rely on fixes for a particular version. I really hope that someone can shed some light on how we can get this done in 1.7.

Well, I am trying to help, but in order to do so, I need enough information to work out what is going on, so I am going to go on asking questions. I know you are probably frustrated, but being rude to people trying to help you is unlikely to be effective.

I just re-read my post to you, perplexed, wondering how it could be interpreted as rude. I answered all your questions as carefully as I could. Am I frustrated with Moodle right now? You bet! Am I taking this frustration out on anyone? Nope. I'm a little more well balanced then that!

I really thought I made my gratefulness for your help clear in my final lines... "No thank you! Help would be so very, very appreciated as I'm a total loss what to do and I have to get this done." I'm very well aware that being rude to someone trying to help me would be counterproductive. From my perspective, I was conveing sincere thanks mixed with a little desperation. My apologies if I was not able to convey this to you.

Can I check: when you say you are using 1.7, do you mean exactly 1.7, or a later 1.7.3 or something?

Moodle 1.7.1+ (2006101010)

It looks like the quiz and feedback modules are failing to recognise that these users have the coordinator role and it is treating these people as students. At the moment I can't think of any logical explanation for that.

We come to the same conclusion on this.

Here is one thing that might generate some useful evidence.:

1. Log into your system as admin.
2. Go to any quiz where the coordinator role does not work.
3. Click on the Update this Quiz button.
4. Click on the Roles tab.
5. Click on the Override roles sub-tab.
6. Click on the Coordinator role link.

I followed this step-by-step...

You will see a table with lots of radio buttons. Ignore the radio buttons, but look at the highlighted backgrounds (See screenshot below). That will show you the capabilites that that role has in that activity before any overrides are applied. If you can tell us what you see there, that might give us some more clues about what the problem is.

Why tell when I can show! I unfortunately don't have any highlighted sections... could this have something to do with the theme that was built for this? It is simply a color variation on the chameleon theme. I'm hoping this screenshot can still provide you with information to identify the problem.

Again, thanks for your help! Sincerely.