moodle-enrol_oss

enrolment plugin for moodle from 3.x to autoenrol in conjunction with the open school server or other ldap servers enrol_oss.

It is supposed to work with the

Open School Server (www.openschoolserver.net) other ldap servers that provide user and group information

servers.

It is crafted for their LDAP structure.

It needs the auth_ldap module working to get the users authenticated through LDAP and enrols those users to courses depending on the field $course->idnumber.

Dependencies

This module needs the Auth-Plugin auth_ldap and the enrolment plugin enrol_cohort to be active to work properly.

Cron-Job

This module is processed by cron on an hourly basis, as is enrol_cohort equally.

The module auth_ldap is not automatically processed by cron. There is a scheduled task available but it is deactivated by default.

Activate it and schedule it for hourly execution.

Parents

To use this new feature you need to create the parent role as outlined in https://docs.moodle.org/34/en/Parent_role. The role shortname needs to match configuration on the settings page.

The parents can be imported from file, which needs to be of certain structure.

username;lastname;firstname;email

E-Mail can be fake mail with example.com but needs to be unique, f.e. "nobody####@example.com" with student no. ####. There is a patch discussed on https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=96114 which makes non unique email addresses possible. This patch is very helpful, because parents of siblings get multiple parent accounts. In newer moodle versions there is the setting "allowaccountssmaeemail", which reduces the mentioned patch to the file emailupdate.php.

username must be "eltern_####", where #### is the student no. in ldap structure.

The number is used to create the relationship between parent and student automatically.

Changelog

2024-08-03 fix: cohort names are case sensitive and need to be 2023-10-25 compatibility with php 8.0 and ldap servers without wildcard search 2021-02-26 ignore whitespace around cohort names in idnumber list 2021-01-26 fix ccteacher context levels 2020-07-16 add all students and age groups classes 2018-02-06 add parent account management 2017-11-28 add classes creation/removing and enrolment 2017-08-19 fixed dn handling, coursecat movements 2016-11-30 added option member_attribute_isdn for dn handling 2016-11-30 initial port from enrol_openlml

Hildesheim, Germany Frank Schütte,2016-2024(fschuett@gymhim.de)