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Auto Group
General plugins (Local) ::: local_autogroup
Maintained by Mark Ward, Emma Richardson, Arnaud Trouvé
A local plugin which automatically assigns enrolled users on a course into groups
dependant upon information within their user profile. (Now with custom profile field support - called User Info Field in settings.)
This plugin will create, update, and delete groups automatically
to match the users on your course. All behaviour is event-driven
and so will occur within page loads.
The system can also monitor manual group setting changes and
moderate them to ensure that groups are kept neat and tidy.
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A local plugin which automatically assigns enrolled users on a course into groups
dependant upon information within their user profile.
This plugin will create, update, and delete groups automatically
to match the users on your course. All behaviour is event-driven
and so will occur within page loads.
The system can also monitor manual group setting changes and
moderate them to ensure that groups are kept neat and tidy.
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Contributors
Mark Ward (Lead maintainer)
Emma Richardson: Maintainer
Arnaud Trouvé: Contributor
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In my course I have Group mode on > Separate Groups. Force group mode > Yes. Default grouping > None
Am I missing something?
I guess this is a common request but i haven't been able to find it. Would it be possible to create groups based on registerd Seminar (Face-2-Face plugin) sessions?
Where should i start if i would like to build a custom set of rules?
Thanks for any info.
We're seeing a case where changing the user profile isn't updating the group on the course. It worked once, going from no group to a named group, but won't work again when we update the profile field further. The profile listener is enabled.
Anything you can suggest to look for in troubleshooting would be very useful.
Can you also advise if the plugin will ever be updated to support MWP?
When I try to create an auto group using the Custom Profile Field then on the next page the 'group by' drop down list is empty.
Also is there a way to alter the columns used if Profile Field is chosen?
How do I create custom profile fields?
since the custom profile fields are related to the user not the course this is of limited use.
I did create (on the staging site) a new profile field "mainCourseGroup" (not all students have a 'main course' but it might have been useful for some).
I tried to upload users with this field added but Moodle , not surprisingly, rejects it: 'mainCourseGroup is not a valid field name'.
I don't see a use for this for us at the moment.
What I (and I suspect many, many others) would really like is for course teaching groups to be integrated into the External Database enrolment plugin.