Also tested with success on version 2.9.1

Hi! Can you tell me the directory where the picture are saved and how to change it? Thank you!

@sergio This is done by default moodle behavior, using user profile image. The uploaded file will be added to moodledata folder and stored in the DB in the *files* table.

Block is not visible to student
Block permission are:

Block: MoodleFreak Avatar
Add a avatar snapshot tool
block/mfavatar:addinstance - Inherit (Allow)

mfavatar:view
block/mfavatar:view - Inherit (Allow)

Block
Edit a block's settings
moodle/block:edit - Inherit (Not set)

View block
moodle/block:view - Inherit (Allow)

@AdityaDubay Did you add the block to the My Moodle page? The capabilities looks correct.

Hi. Thanks for making this plugin available. If possible, please could you provide more details of the automatic first and last name initials avatar creation (as shown in the third image above) functionality? After having installed the plugin I can't find any way to activate or make use of this functionality. Thanks.

@Roland Sherwood I added a video to description of plugin. I hope this helps.

Hi Luuk. That's great - many thanks! I understand now, and apologies also because my confusion was caused by the fact that I thought the download link at the top of this page was for the latest 3.5-compatible version of the plugin. However, that link is actually for the 1.1 release, and I realise now it's the 1.2 release that offers this functionality (hence my confusion after installing 1.1 and not seeing any settings related to automatic avatars). Everything works great now (although we do have an issue with non-latin character-based names producing avatars with no visible text; however that's probably beyond the scope of what you had in mind for this plugin)!

We seem to have an issue with this plugin with deleted users? Here's the log from the scheduled tasks that keeps failing...

Update user avatars

Execute scheduled task: Update user avatars (block_mfavatar\task\update_avatars)
... started 17:02:01. Current memory use 9.5MB.
... used 154 dbqueries
... used 1.1980068683624 seconds
Scheduled task failed: Update user avatars (block_mfavatar\task\update_avatars),Invalid user
Debug info:
SELECT id FROM {user} WHERE id = ? AND deleted = ?
[array (
0 => '6',
1 => 0,
)]
Backtrace:
* line 1522 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->get_record_select()
* line 6124 of /lib/accesslib.php: call to moodle_database->get_record()
* line 191 of /blocks/mfavatar/classes/avatargenerator.php: call to context_user::instance()
* line 140 of /blocks/mfavatar/classes/avatargenerator.php: call to block_mfavatar\avatargenerator->save()
* line 163 of /blocks/mfavatar/classes/avatargenerator.php: call to block_mfavatar\avatargenerator->set_avatar_single_user()
* line 57 of /blocks/mfavatar/classes/task/update_avatars.php: call to block_mfavatar\avatargenerator->set_avatar_for_all_users()
* line 105 of /lib/cronlib.php: call to block_mfavatar\task\update_avatars->execute()
* line 297 of /lib/cronlib.php: call to cron_run_inner_scheduled_task()
* line 91 of /admin/tool/task/schedule_task.php: call to cron_run_single_task()

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Ray

Hi Ray,

Can you check the latest moodle35 version on github?
https://github.com/MoodleFreak/moodle-block_mfavatar

Deleted users shouldn't need a new avatar, they will be skipped now. If you confirm it works correctly I will update the plugin on moodle.org

Cheers,
Luuk

I love the automatically generated avatars, but I have a problem: even though Override user picture is unchecked in the settings, it replaced the profile picture I was using. Now when I try to delete the avatar or upload a new picture in my profile nothing happens. (Using Moodle 3.5 and plugin version 1.3.0)

Hi Kale, did you turn off "avatar_initials" in the global block configuration? This prevents avatars from being generated.

Future development, would be a great add on to the atto text editor to allow students to take shots of work etc

hi, I see this error in Moodle v3.9. How to fix it? Thank you! "Exception - Class 'completion_info' not found "

@Vladimir Where do you see this error? Can you provide an error back trace?