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NED - Mentor Manager
Blocks ::: block_fn_mentor
Maintained by 
Fern Oliveira
Part of set NED.
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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Fern Oliveira (Lead maintainer)
Fernando Oliveira: Original maintainer
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Thanks a lot for your quick response.
Let me tell you how I did to install the plugin.
1. I install the plugin directly from the Moodle page.
2. I configure the roles with the details shown in the Install manual (Don't they need some permissions?)
3. I configure the block as shown in the image from screencast.com (login as page layout)
4. As site administrator I add the block in my dashboard
5. I asigned some users as "mentor"
6. I login as a user with "mentor" role but the block doesn't appear in the dashboard (do I need to configure as "dashboard" in the page layout?)
7. The user can see the block if he install it in the dashboard (Is this normal? that eacch user has to install the block?)
An apology for all this questions but is my first experience with Moodle 2.9
Thanks a lot for your attention.
Best Regards
1. Install the block on the frontpage.
2. Edit the block and set "Where this block appears" to "Display throughout entire site"
3. Go to the Dashboard page. You should see the block there. Edit the block and and set "where this block appears" to "Dashboard page"
Thanks a lot for your response and an apology because I was in a trip and I can't reply before.
You're right the block function well, but in the theme (a customized theme) we're using it fails, I think the block writes in the top of the page and may be the theme blocks that section, I'm not sure about that but I Tried with other themes and the block function well.
Thanks again.
I would like to contribute to translate this great block ... I translated it but I have two doubts:
1. In some paragraphs you use the term "student" and in others the word "mentee" this word doesn't have a real translation but the most of people use it as "aprentice" I use in all the paragraphs the word "student", but I can change it to "aprentice" (aprendiz in spanish).
2. In some paragraphs or titles doesn't have the entry in the lang (block_fn_mentor) file, then that paragraph can't be translated; ie the title "Progress" and the title "Grade" in the block.
How can I do to translate that titles or paragraphs and how can I send you the files to integrate in the block. I tested it in my own Moodle instance and operates well.
Thanks for your attention and help.
1. Remove and old version of this plug-in from your test site
2. Download the latest code here: http://tinyurl.com/jede3l9
3. Rename directory to ned_mentor and upload to the /blocks folder on your Moodle server (note that the name of the plug-in directory is now ned_mentor, not fn_mentor)
4. Login to your Moodle site and complete the installation as per usual
Note that any existing notification rules and mentor-mentee associations will have to be created anew.
This version is compatible with Moodle 2.9, 3.0 and 3.1.
I installed this but it still requires to be called fn_mentor. Also I can't get the block to display when logged in as the mentor
Code is now updated. Please retry.
I've accessed the plugin from an 'admin' users perspective but receive this error when accessing the course overview direct URL from a mentors login:
Invalid user
More information about this error
Debug info: SELECT * FROM {user} WHERE id = ?
[array (
0 => 0,
)]
Error code: invaliduser
Stack trace:
line 1455 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: dml_missing_record_exception thrown
line 1431 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->get_record_select()
line 78 of /blocks/ned_mentor/course_overview.php: call to moodle_database->get_record()
Is this a bug - if so do you want me to create an issue in the bug tracker; or is it because I have misconfigured my 'mentors' role permissions
Thanks
Could you please post all bug reports to this github page: https://github.com/fernandooliveira/moodle-block_mentor/issues
Please include your Moodle version as well as the database system your using (MySQL, Postgre, etc.) .
Thanks.
I'm having a problem with "open progress reports".
I select "open progress reports" > "select student" > "all students" > "generate new list"
Then moodle processes about 90% and stops with an sql error stating there are too many columns.
From the output, I think it creates 2 columns for each activity and since Innodb has a limit of 1000 columns per table it stops.
Is there a way to solve this problem? I currently have over a 1000 activities graded, so this way it doesn't work.
Any help would be appreciated, since your block is great and we 'd like to keep using it.
Best regards,
Rui