Version History

1.5.0 : Adding caching using MUC which greatly improves performance, and reduces load on linked Moodle instances.

Installation

Installation is very straight forward. Just drop the cqumymoodle folder into the path/to/moodle/blocks directory and either navigate to http://www.yourmoodle.com/admin/index.php OR run php admin/cli/upgrade.php from the command line in your dirroot.

Web Service Configuration

1. Make sure you have webservices and REST is turned on

• Site administration > Advanced features
• Make sure "Enable web services" is checked
• Site administration > Plugins > Web services > Manage protocols > Enable REST protocol

2. Create a new user for webservice functions, if user does not exist(this is for added security)

• Site administration > Users > Accounts > Add a new user
• Fill in the form, and make sure "Choose an authentication method" is set to "Web services authentication"

3. Create a custom role for webservice functions and assign the webservice user to this role

• Site administration > Users > Permissions > Define roles
• Add a new role > "Use role or archetype" > Set to "No role"
• Context types where this role may be assigned, set to "System"
• Assign the following permissions:

Permissions

moodle/user:update moodle/course:useremail moodle/course:viewparticipants moodle/course:view moodle/user:viewdetails moodle/user:viewhiddendetails webservice/rest:use

4. Create a new external service

• Site administration > Plugins > Web services > External services
• Under Custom services click "Add"
• Give it a unique name, make sure "Enabled" and "Authorised users only" is checked
• Click "Add service"
• Click "Add functions"
• Search for cqu_get_user_courses
• Click "Add functions"
• Go back to External services, under your newly created custom service, click on Authorised users
• Add the webservice user you created in step 2

5. Create a token for this external service

• Site administration > Plugins > Web services > Manage tokens
• Click on "Add"
• Search for the webservice user you created in step 2 in "User"
• Choose the custom external service that you created in step 4 in "Service"
• You can choose to configure "IP restriction" and "Valid until" for more security

Block Configuration

Note: You may add this block wherever blocks are allowed but for the sake of this tutorial, we are going to assume that you are adding it to the /my page and have configured your site to go to /my instead of /index.php or SITE

• Site adminsitration > Appearance > Default My home page
• Turn "Blocks editing on"
• Add block of type "CQU MyMoodle"
• Move it to wherever you want to on the page
• Edit the block settings (click on the hand icon or gear icon)
• Give the block a unique name
• For Endpoint, the normal path is "www.yourmoodle.com/webservice/rest/server.php"
• "External Moodle" is checked if we are connecting to another Moodle site that also has this block installed
• WebService Token, is the token we created in the Web Service configuration steps above