Blocks: NED - Mentor Manager
block_fn_mentor
Maintained by 
Toby Wingfield
With this block, the admin (or designated user) can assign mentors to students. Mentors can then access easy-to-read “progress reports” for their mentees. The admin (or designated users) can also create automated notifications that are sent to teachers, mentors or students based on pre-selected criteria (example: notification is emailed to mentor and student if student has not logged in for 7 days).
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This block provides a user-friendly way of pairing mentors with students. Currently, Moodle does not have an effective way of managing the mentor role. By using this block, parents, tutors, or other “helpers” are able to track the progress of particular students across multiple courses. The block exists at the site level. When a mentor logs in, his/her mentees (students) are listed inside the block. When the mentor clicks on the name of a student, a progress report is shown. This report includes grades, submissions, feedback, etc. from all relevant courses. Along with defining mentors and mentees, administrators can also create “notification rules” that are automatically sent (email or SMS) to teachers, mentors or students based on pre-selected criteria (example: send email notification to mentor and student if student has not logged in for 7 days and grade is less than 50%).
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This plugin is part of set NED.
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Toby Wingfield (Lead maintainer)
Fernando Oliveira: Original maintainer
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BTW for those of you wanting NED for 3.4, the mentor manager side pairs up fine in my test Moodle 3.4 for pairing Mentee's to Mentors but the notification side fails. So you can at least let your mentors see their mentee grades fine which is nice you just can't send notifications yet. You also can't see the two links for managing users and notifications but if you just type it in manually you can do both just fine, ie, type yourMoodleURL then add /moodle/blocks/fn_mentor/assign.php also notifications do the same type yourmoodleurl/moodle/blocks/fn_mentor/notification_rules.php
First I would like to thank you for this great plugin, and I hope it will have a release soon for Moodle 3.4 and 3.5.
second: I want to ask is there an ability for the mentor to view learning plan and competencies report for the mentee?
when I clicked student's name from the Block all moodle interface disappeared and I should navigate using the browser navigation.
Reviewing the import and export functionality I would suggest a new enhancement which allows the admin to select which user field to import data with for example using the username, userid or user's email. currently, the valid option is user email
I want to use Ned Mentor Manager to send reminders about attendance at the courses to students, teachers and the follow-up office. Is it possible that the plugin sends the notification for not accessing the course instead of not log in? Let me explain. I configured the plugin to send reminders if students do not log in and there is no activity for 5 days in an specific courses. I have a student enrolled in 2 courses. In one of them the student has active participation. In the other, the student was absent. If the student does not log in to Moodle in five days, an automatic reminder is sent so it is working. In this case, no reminder was sent because Ned Mentor Manager detected login and activity even though the student did not access one of the courses for seven days. If the plugin sends a notification when no access to the course is detected for five days, then it will work for me.
Thank you for your excellent contribution.
Debug info: SQLState: 42000
Error Code: 8120
Message: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server][SQL Server]Column 'mdl_user.firstname' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause.
SELECT u.id,
u.firstname,
u.lastname,
u.email
FROM mdl_role_assignments ra
INNER JOIN mdl_user u
ON ra.userid = u.id
WHERE u.deleted = '0'
AND u.suspended = '0'
AND ra.roleid = '1'
GROUP BY u.id
ORDER BY u.lastname ASC
[array (
0 => 0,
1 => 0,
2 => '1',
)]
Error code: dmlreadexception
×Stack trace:
line 486 of \lib\dml\moodle_database.php: dml_read_exception thrown
line 324 of \lib\dml\sqlsrv_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
line 431 of \lib\dml\sqlsrv_native_moodle_database.php: call to sqlsrv_native_moodle_database->query_end()
line 896 of \lib\dml\sqlsrv_native_moodle_database.php: call to sqlsrv_native_moodle_database->do_query()
line 972 of \lib\dml\sqlsrv_native_moodle_database.php: call to sqlsrv_native_moodle_database->get_recordset_sql()
line 406 of \blocks\fn_mentor\lib.php: call to sqlsrv_native_moodle_database->get_records_sql()
line 61 of \blocks\fn_mentor\assign.php: call to block_fn_mentor_get_all_mentors()
He buscado y no encontrado, cómo podemos enviarle notificaciones a usuarios que NUCNA han ingresado a la plataforma?.
Espero me puedas ayudar.
Saludos
I liked this plugins, please, How i can send email automatically to students if i select some criteria.
I had used Ned Manager, and i select 1 day for no logged users to send them notifications , if i run rules, it's work, but after one day, notifications doesn't work automatically.
Thank you a lot.
Recently upgraded Moodle and we're getting the following error.
running 3.5.1+ (Build: 20180817)
Php 7.2.9
Apache 2.3.34
NED Marking Manager
block_fn_marking
3.3.2
2017101200
NED Mentor Manager
block_fn_mentor
3.3.0
2017072502
Error
object of type stdClass as array Debug: \nError code: generalexceptionmessage\n* line 2483 of /blocks/fn_mentor/lib.php: Error thrown\n* line 2488 of /blocks/fn_mentor/lib.php: call to block_fn_mentor_get_selected_courses()\n* line 154 of /blocks/fn_mentor/block_fn_mentor.php: call to block_fn_mentor_get_selected_courses()\n* line 288 of /blocks/moodleblock.class.php: call to block_fn_mentor->get_content()\n* line 230 of /blocks/moodleblock.class.php: call to block_base->formatted_contents()\n* line 1211 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_base->get_content_for_output()\n* line 1263 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_manager->create_block_contents()\n* line 604 of /lib/outputrenderers.php:
call to block_manager->ensure_content_created()\n* line 185 of /theme/adaptable/layout/includes/header.php: call to core_renderer->standard_head_html()\n* line 30 of /theme/adaptable/layout/frontpage.php: call to require_once()\n* line 1287 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to include()\n* line 1217 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to core_renderer->render_page_layout()\n* line 112 of /index.php: call to core_renderer->header()\n, referer
Turn the initial update the site loaded correctly. It wasn't until after the teachers got into the system that this bug appeared. The only way to resolve it was for me to hide the plug in temporarily.
If you'd like to work out some time to debug, please let me know
My situation is student leave the course, but I need to keep them on as a student on that course for reporting / financial reporting reasons. I remove them from the mentor area, but they still get emails from the notifications. Any help on this?