Moodle plugins directory: Socialwall Format | Moodle.org
Socialwall Format
A big thanks to a new Moodle 3.3 version which was patched and fixed by David Herney Bernal
If you have a fix or improvement we would love to include it. Please contact Chris Kenniburg.
Initial funding and support provided by the Regional Educational Media Center (REMC) Association of Michigan.
The Moodle Socialwall will transform your Moodle course into a social learning platform. This includes a familiar post interface, timeline of posts, filtering of the timeline, and integration with Moodle's activities and resources. A social learning format allows teachers to pick up the tool and begin using it right away.
Google Presentation for Moodle Socialwall Course Format
A super big thank you to REMC Michigan http://remc.org for supporting and funding this project.
Special thanks to Moodle Partner Synergy Learning http://www.synergy-learning.com for doing the hard work of developing this course format.
Special Notes:
- Do not change an existing course to the Socialwall format. It is possible and will work just fine, but will have undesired results/consequences due to how social wall puts all activities and files into topic one (behind the scenes).
- All activities and resources added to a Socialwall course will appear in Topic One if switched to the standard Topic Format of Moodle. It is possible to switch from Socialwall to Topic Format if a teacher wants to move into a more traditional online learning model. The teacher would then just need to arrange their activities and resources into the topic areas.
- Using CSS you can alter the appearance of the Socialwall. An example can be found in how the evolve-D theme displays the Socialwall and timeline. evolve-D Theme
- Be sure to activate the URL Resource filter to get automatic embedding of Youtube videos and links.
- The Alert Block is designed to display class alerts and other useful events in the course. It is recommended to add this to your sidebar.
Installation and Use
Watch a Google hangout we did explaining how to install and use the Socialwall Format.
Additional Information
The eCommunity Platform uses a new Moodle Course Format (called Socialwall) which alters the way a typical course looks and behaves. Most people use "Topic” or "Weekly” course formats in Moodle.
This is new course format offers a timeline, where teachers and students may post and/or comment on. It is fully integrated in Moodle, so teacher may:
- make different kind of posts (Alerts, sticky post)
- attach activities to timeline-posts (via Drag and Drop too)
- attach files and URLs to posts
- comment on posts or reply to comments
Students (depending on capabilites) may:
- make standard posts
- attach resources (files or links) to posts
- comment on posts or reply to comments
- view results and feedback of assignments in their timeline
The Socialwall-Package includes:
- a new Course Format (called socialwall, format_socialwall)
Optional:
- a new Filter (filter_urlresource) to alter the way a posted url-Resource will be displayed
- a local plugin (local_filterurlresbak) to backup and restore the filter data (unfortunately moodle doesn't support backup and restore for filter data).
- a new Block to display upcoming events and alerts related to the course (block_alerts).
Useful links
Screenshots
A couple of queries:
1. Is it possible that all students receive notifications by default? It looks like the default is 'Off'.
2. As an Admin - if I edit a post - the name of the person posting changes to me. Can it work like Forum Posts in that the original person posting remains the same and it shows an 'edited by' comment?
Thanks!
1. I believe you can change the defaults for the course format by changing the notification setting in the Site Admin Area under plugins>course formats. Change up the Socialwall defaults. Also at the course level you can change them too.
2. I can add this to a list of future updates. Thanks for the feedback!
Example, I needed two seconds worth of information: how to install. To get that information I had to load a 37min video and wait for the information (or jump around and try to find it).
If you want to use video, break them up into two to three minute pieces of content.
Thanks
Debug info: ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: ""
SELECT * FROM mdl_user WHERE id IN ($1,$2)
[array (
0 => 2,
1 => '',
)]
Error code: dmlreadexception
Stack trace:
line 443 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: dml_read_exception thrown
line 244 of /lib/dml/pgsql_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
line 785 of /lib/dml/pgsql_native_moodle_database.php: call to pgsql_native_moodle_database->query_end()
line 1309 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to pgsql_native_moodle_database->get_records_sql()
line 1282 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->get_records_select()
line 389 of /course/format/socialwall/classes/local/posts.php: call to moodle_database->get_records_list()
line 427 of /course/format/socialwall/classes/local/posts.php: call to format_socialwall\local\posts->add_posts_data()
line 820 of /course/format/socialwall/renderer.php: call to format_socialwall\local\posts->get_timeline_posts()
line 58 of /course/format/socialwall/format.php: call to format_socialwall_renderer->print_page()
line 280 of /course/view.php: call to require()
and this in the error logs
2016/05/28 15:46:22 [error] 31304#0: *9670 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: Default exception handler: Error reading from database Debug: ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: ""
SELECT * FROM mdl_user WHERE id IN ($1,$2)
[array (
0 => 2,
1 => '',
)]
Error code: dmlreadexception
* line 443 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: dml_read_exception thrown
* line 244 of /lib/dml/pgsql_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
* line 785 of /lib/dml/pgsql_native_moodle_database.php: call to pgsql_native_moodle_database->query_end()
* line 1309 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to pgsql_native_moodle_database->get_records_sql()
* line 1282 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->get_records_select()
* line 389 of /course/format/socialwall/classes/local/posts.php: call to moodle_database->get_records_list()
* line 427 of /course/format/socialwall/classes/local/posts.php: call to format_socialwall\local\posts->add_posts_data()
* line 820 of /course/format/socialwall/renderer.php: call to format_socialwall\local\posts->get_time" while reading upstream
Thanks guys for the great plugin.