Moodle plugins directory: Message My Teacher | Moodle.org
Message My Teacher
This block displays a list of all Teachers for the current course page (except for the current user, if they are a teacher). Each name links to the messaging system allowing the user to quickly message their teacher.
The roles that are considered to be "Teachers" can be configured, allowing control over who is actually displayed in the block.
New in 2.6
- Support for Moodle 3.9 onwards.
Development of version 2.3 was sponsored by Connecting Waters Charter School (http://www.connectingwaters.org)
Will there be a version of this block for Moodle version x.x?
If
you'd like to use this block on a later version than the latest release
says is supported, try it and see if it works. There's usually no
changes that would affect this block, so it's better to try it and let
me know if there's a problem than to ask me if/when there will be an
update. I will do my best to test on new versions and update this page
accordingly.
Please dont report bugs here
If you experience an error with the block, or would like to request a feature, please use the "Bug Tracker" link below.
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I've added this to the Issue Tracker[1], although it's unlikely I'm going to get time to work on it in the near future as our institution handles classes rather differently to yours - we have a separate page altogether for each class, so students are only enrolled on a page with their own teachers.
If anyone wishes to contribute this feature it would be most welcome!
[1] https://github.com/marxjohnson/moodle-block_messageteacher/issues/1
thank you so much for your response. This feature is extremely valuable to us so if you could find the time to do this little hack I'd gladly pay you for it!
Would you have the time to help me? I would appreciate it if you could, and all our teachers would be thankful!
'Site Admin->plugins->blocks->Message My Teacher' allows me to assign the roles of those who will show up in the block.
In my case, course administrators wish to be added to the block along with teachers. It seems that any role that I have assigned to a course at the category level does not work. This is problematic for us as we have many courses or 'papers' under each sub/category or 'programme' which makes assigning course admins at a paper level retrospectively to each and every paper very time consuming and error-prone.
Is it possible for you to come up with a way for me to tweak my MMT code which propogates roles assigned at the category/sub category level instead of ONLY at the paper level?
I'm not a fluent PHP/MySQL coder, so don't know where to start.
With Thanks
This would be possible - you'd need to find all of the parent contexts from the path field of the course's context, then iterate up the tree looking for users assigned the selected roles in each context.
I've created an issue for it on the tracker
https://github.com/marxjohnson/moodle-block_messageteacher/issues/2
Your site's Message system will need to be enabled for this block to do anything useful - all it really does is display a link to certain users' Message pages.
Jay,
Please refer to this issue on the tracker: https://github.com/marxjohnson/moodle-block_messageteacher/issues/6
block_messageteacher
Unknown error upgrading block_messageteacher to version 2013031301, can not continue.
Debug info:
Error code: upgradeerror
Stack trace:
line 249 of /lib/upgradelib.php: upgrade_exception thrown
line 821 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_block_savepoint()
line 362 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins_blocks()
line 1544 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins()
line 349 of /admin/index.php: call to upgrade_noncore()
Moodle version is Moodle 2.4 (Build: 20121203)
I'm going to just remove the block and upgrade to Moodle 2.5 anyway, and when I've got that done and tested I'll try this block again, but I thought I should at least point out the issue. We had been using the previous version of the block, which had no problem.
Thanks for your report, I have found this and fixed it locally but not yet released the fix. I've added your report to the issue tracker with more infomation: https://github.com/marxjohnson/moodle-block_messageteacher/issues/11
Guido, thanks for the suggestion, it's also in the new release!
How can I quit the default name plugin "MESSAGE MY TEACHER", to none or change? we speak in other language.
thanks