Moodle plugins directory: Advanced Notifications | Moodle.org
Advanced Notifications
Easily create, manage and display notifications/alerts to users
This block allows users to display DEFCON-like alerts, which are Bootstrap-based, allowing for various configurations.
This could be useful in cases such as alerting users of scheduled outages, welcoming them to your site, teachers can use it to notify users of changes/due dates, etc.
Features:
- Customisable title & message
- Basic HTML tags allowed for advanced users
- Multi-lingual/filter support
- Multiple types of notifications (Bootstrap-based styles)
- Type-based icons (optional setting)
- Dismissible/Non-Dismissible
- Customisable date range to show notifications
- Display a notification to the user a set amount of times
- Instance-based or global/site-wide notifications
- (NEW) Users (e.g. teachers) can create and manage their own instance-based notifications - disabled by default
- Enable/Disable a/all notifications (Site-wide and instance-based)
- Edit/Delete/Restore notifications
- Option to auto-delete notification after end-date
- Option to permanently delete notifications that have had the deleted flag for more than 30 days
- Option to automatically remove user (dismissed/seen) records that relate to notifications that don't exist anymore
- AJAX used to improve user-experience and simplify processes
- Live-preview when making/editing a notification
- Easy to use, but fully documented with all the nitty-gritty information
- Implements Privacy API (GDPR Compliance)
For full documentation, please check here - or check the plugin's `/docs` directory.
Notification Anatomy
Installation Notice
All the plugin's settings are disabled by default. Enable it upon installation if you wish to start using it immediately or enable it later by navigating to Site Administration > Plugins > Blocks > Advanced Notifications.
Backwards Compatibility/Progressive Enhancement
Although the plugin works and is usable without JavaScript, it is highly recommended to use the plugin with JavaScript enabled. Using the plugin with JavaScript disabled does not allow for some features to be used to their full potential ranging from dismissing a notification to dynamically editing existing notifications and the live-preview feature - all of which relies on JavaScript in some form to make the user's experience more enjoyable.
Pull Requests
Pull requests are welcome - submit pull requests to address issues, add features, fix typos, anything!
Useful links
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It would be great if it was possible to selectively display the block to members of specific cohorts.
Ricardo
In short, it's not currently possible to *push* notifications to groups or cohorts or the like, only to show them globally or a specific instance of a block.
Pull requests are always welcomed, while trying to keep the core principle of the plugin alive - keeping it simple and easy to use.
Thanks,
Zander
I've replied on GitHub and have now released a new version (v1.4.1) which significantly increases the maximum number of times a notification can be seen by a user. Please have a look at https://github.com/learningworks/moodle-block_advnotifications/issues/27 for more info.
Hope that helps & thanks again,
Zander
What role(s) do you have in the system? And what were you doing before the message showed up?
There are two main permissions that manage your access to the plugin's features - your role will need to be granted these permissions by an admin of the site:
- block/advnotifications:managenotifications => Allows you create & manage ALL notifications
- block/advnotifications:manageownnotifications => Allows you to create & manage ONLY notifications you created
You can also create an issue here with detailed steps of how the error occurred, screenshots, Moodle/plugin version, etc: https://github.com/learningworks/moodle-block_advnotifications/issues
Thanks,
Zander
I want to send auto-generated email to the enrolled students on new activity uploaded to the particular course. My moodle version is 3.10. Any possibility to accommodate that ? Pls Guide.
I think that's a bit beyond the scope of this plugin. You can bulk message students from the 'Participants' page in a course to notify them of updates to the course, or another custom plugin is needed, sorry.
All the best,
Zander
thank you for that great plugin! 🙏
Seems to be exactly what I was looking for to enhance sending out messages of different kinds to my students. 😊
What I don't get: how can I achieve that the messages are displayed in the content area of a course page, not as a small block on the right side?
I am using Moodle 3.9, Fordson theme and Edwiser course format.
Currently it looks like this:
Is there any way to achieve this?
Stefan
Hope that helps.
Thanks,
Zander
is it possible to individualize the notification also e.g.: " Hello "title" "firstname" "lastname".
And to select the "sender" of the message so that the attendees can see who the message is from?
We have many course trainers/managers who manage their own courses.
Maybe it already works and I didn't find it.
What is the forecast to release version 3.11?
Thanks so much for creating this plugin. I have a question regarding the plugin capabilities.
Currently if you are using the advanced notifications, if you create one more than one announcement, they all show up. Is there a way that only one announcement can show up depending on which page you put it on? or am I doing something incorrectly?
Thank you in advance.
Thanks,
Lisa
Also, the text supports filters, so if you use a filter that can display the user’s name, etc, it should work. 👌
Thanks,
Zander