Quickmail

Blocks ::: block_quickmail
Maintained by Robert Russo, David Lowe
A block that provides selective, bulk emailing within courses. Developed by LSU.
Latest release:
3401 sites
979 downloads
119 fans
Current versions available: 6

Quickmail is a block that provides selective, bulk emailing within courses.

Features

  • Multiple attachments
  • Drafts
  • Signatures
  • Filter by Role
  • Filter by Groups
  • Optionally allow Students to email people within their group.

License

Quickmail adopts the same license that Moodle does.

Authors

Quickmail was developed at Louisiana State University.

Potential privacy issues

The Privacy API is not implemented in this plugin.

Screenshots

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Contributors

Robert Russo (Lead maintainer)
Philip Cali: Former Lead Developer
jason peak: Former maintainer
David Elliott: Former maintainer
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Chad Mazilly: Former Maintainer
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  • Daniel
    Sat, Apr 15, 2023, 4:54 PM
    The elements integrated in the message (files, images...) are accessible on the Moodle platform thanks to the link located in the email.
    Daniel
  • Robert Wagenhoffer
    Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 7:01 AM
    Is Quickmail 2.5.0 compatable with Moodle 4.2? I just upgraded to 4.2 and lost my Quickmail Block. Uninstalled the plugin and reinistalled it and still do not have the option to add the block. Mnually tried to initiate Quickmail by using blocks/quickmail/broadcast.php and received the following error:
    Sorry, but you do not currently have permissions to do that (Add a new Quickmail block to the /my page).
    Stack trace:
    line 48 of /blocks/quickmail/classes/plugin.php: required_capability_exception thrown
    line 43 of /blocks/quickmail/broadcast.php: call to block_quickmail_plugin::require_user_can_send()

  • Vladimír Výboh
    Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 8:37 PM
    I tested that version 2021120302 from GIT works fine on Moodle 4.2.1
  • Terry Aulenbach
    Fri, Aug 25, 2023, 9:50 PM
    Is v4.2.1.1 compatible with Moodle 3.11? We are getting an error message with v2.5.0:
    PHP Deprecated: Required parameter $coursecontext follows optional parameter $includeusergroupinfo in {path}/blocks/quickmail/classes/plugin.php on line 214

    We are looking at upgrading our PHP version on our production server (PHP 7.4.33) but getting this error message every time our corn runs on our test server (PHP 8.0.30) is disconcerting.
  • James Roberts
    Mon, Oct 23, 2023, 7:27 AM
    As a teacher, I cannot duplicate a previously sent Quickmail message.

    This is the message:
    Exception - Argument 1 passed to block_quickmail\filemanager\message_file_handler::__construct() must be an instance of block_quickmail\persistents\message, null given, called in [dirroot]/blocks/quickmail/classes/filemanager/message_file_handler.php on line 79

    I think that we are now on Moodle 4.1.5 but this Moodle error message occurred earlier.
    (Great plug-in btw. I use it to schedule and notify students of impending events.)
  • Bobby Siegfried
    Tue, Jan 2, 2024, 8:44 AM
    Help! Running the latest version of Quickmail on Moodle 4.1.7 and Quickmail seems to be picking up the same messages from old courses and dropping them in mdl_task_adhoc for processing. How can I stop this from happening? This has been happening since Moodle version 3.11
  • Peter Diedrichs
    Tue, Jan 16, 2024, 5:54 PM
    Has anyone used the 4.2 version with moodle 4.3?
  • Daniel Caixeta Queiroz Garcia
    Mon, Mar 4, 2024, 7:21 PM

    I am experiencing an issue when attempting to duplicate a message in Moodle version 4.3.3+ with the Quickmail plugin version v4.2.1 (2023070700). The error message I receive is as follows:

    block_quickmail\filemanager\message_file_handler::__construct(): Argument #1 ($message) must be of type block_quickmail\persistents\message, null given, called in [dirroot]/blocks/quickmail/classes/filemanager/message_file_handler.php on line 79.

    I would greatly appreciate any guidance or solutions to resolve this problem. Thank you in advance for your assistance.
  • Bruno Dura
    Fri, May 3, 2024, 6:46 PM
    Hi there
    Love this plugin, is there any way to add data fields? I would love to the username to this list. Given that our students have a student number as a username, a lot of them tend to forget it. Getting it as a reminder before start of a course would really help.
    Thanks in advance!
  • Allie Wrin
    Thu, Jun 6, 2024, 1:18 AM
    Is there an ETA for Moodle 4.3?
  • bao sebastiao sales
    Mon, Oct 14, 2024, 9:07 PM
    Dear, good morning. We're facing an issue after updating the Quickmail plugin. Previously, teachers were able to see all emails sent to students by other teachers. In the new version, each teacher can only see the history of emails they personally sent, without being able to view the email history sent by other teachers. Has this feature been removed from newer versions? Is this related to compliance with FERPA regulations?
  • Sharon Strauss
    Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 11:06 PM
    Hello, I am seeing the same issue as Belardo sales. When I check the log, I see a lot of failed Quickmail reports, similar to this one:

    Send all scheduled Quickmail messages
    \block_quickmail\tasks\send_all_ready_messages_task
    Scheduled 10/30/24, 00:45:01 0.02 secs moodle 361031
    9 reads
    0 writes
    Fail


    Veiwing the failed log shows:

    Execute scheduled task: Send all scheduled Quickmail messages (block_quickmail\tasks\send_all_ready_messages_task)
    ... started 00:45:01. Current memory use 21.0 MB.
    Debugging increased temporarily due to faildelay of 61440
    ... used 9 dbqueries
    ... used 0.019463062286377 seconds
    Scheduled task failed: Send all scheduled Quickmail messages (block_quickmail\tasks\send_all_ready_messages_task),groups_get_user_groups(): Argument #2 ($userid) must be of type int, null given, called in /mnt/data/moodle/blocks/quickmail/classes/repos/group_repo.php on line 92
    Backtrace:
    * line 92 of /blocks/quickmail/classes/repos/group_repo.php: call to groups_get_user_groups()
    * line 66 of /blocks/quickmail/classes/repos/user_repo.php: call to block_quickmail\repos\group_repo::get_course_user_groups()
    * line 335 of /blocks/quickmail/classes/repos/user_repo.php: call to block_quickmail\repos\user_repo::get_course_user_selectable_users()
    * line 193 of /blocks/quickmail/classes/persistents/message.php: call to block_quickmail\repos\user_repo::get_unique_course_user_ids_from_selected_entities()
    * line 222 of /blocks/quickmail/classes/repos/queued_repo.php: call to block_quickmail\persistents\message->populate_recip_course_msg()
    * line 241 of /blocks/quickmail/classes/repos/queued_repo.php: call to block_quickmail\repos\queued_repo::sync_course_recip_msgs()
    * line 49 of /blocks/quickmail/classes/tasks/send_all_ready_messages_task.php: call to block_quickmail\repos\queued_repo::get_all_messages_to_send()
    * line 405 of /lib/classes/cron.php: call to block_quickmail\tasks\send_all_ready_messages_task->execute()
    * line 208 of /lib/classes/cron.php: call to core\cron::run_inner_scheduled_task()
    * line 125 of /lib/classes/cron.php: call to core\cron::run_scheduled_tasks()
    * line 186 of /admin/cli/cron.php: call to core\cron::run_main_process()


    I am running QM version v4.2.2
    2024101701

    on Moodle 4.38, build 20241011. I did not have this issue before updating QM and Moodle on 10/15/24. I just updated QM again, but that did not fix the issue.
  • Jason deNobel
    Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 6:56 AM
    I have quickmail installed. I upgraded the moodle installation to version 4.5. I tried to update the quickmail version to 4.5.1 I have installed the plugin via, the install button here, the zip file to the direct server, and the zip file uploaded within the moodle installation. (and yes I deleted each version and install quickmail before trying the next way). But I am constantly getting this error. Exception - Class "question_bank" not found

    More information about this error

    And also within the plugin overview it says:

    v4.2.2 of quickmail
    2024101701

    any help ???
  • Sharon Strauss
    Sat, Nov 9, 2024, 5:01 AM
    Update to my message Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 11:06 AM

    I changed the group setting from the default for the "block_quickmail_ferpa" setting to "Respect Course Mode" rather than the default "Always Separate Groups". This appears to have fixed the problem.
  • Jorge Cruz
    Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 1:06 AM
    Hello! This plugin is really good! One question: are there plans to implement a filter that shows the student's final grade in the course? It is the value in the "finalgrade" field in the mdl_grade_grades table.
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