General plugins (Local): eduMessenger
Robert SchrenkeduMessenger is an instant messenger for iOS and Android that's main purpose is connecting students and teachers in educational environments! eduMessenger uses Moodle as a background-tool to provide the messaging functionality to anyone who hosts their own Moodle instance as a basement for their groups and data.
We provide full data souverenity and privacy, as no message contents are stored on our servers.
This plugin sets up the communication between your Moodle and eduMessenger. You and all your users can use eduMessenger for free. We may introduce chargeable pro-features in future versions in order to maintain our server infrastructure, but this does not apply to the current version. Please find further information on our website.
For german-speaking visitors we have a video explaining how eduMessenger works
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Thank you for your interest to eduMessenger and I am sorry if the fact distracts you that eduMessenger is currently a commercial solution. Like many other plugins on moodle that connect to external services, eduMessenger too is an external service that needs maintenance, server capacity and further development. Unfortunately eduMessenger would not work without a centralized infrastructure that way.
There are many messengers out there that are free to use - and you pay with your data.
We wanted to create a messenger that is not selling your data to finance our services - who would pay? Currently we do not have a business angel that spends us a buck of money to make this free for some years and then .... ??? Would you charge the users themselves? I will look at all those children in impecunious schools that need their spare money for things of higher importance....
We are truthful and tell you that this is a service that helps your organization to spread the use of moodle. It is worth spending money for it. If you are interested as a school we offer special discounts, please just contact us using our form on https://www.edumessenger.org/access-to-edumessenger-as-school/
For other institutions we have the feeling that they could afford a little money - if you think you would deserve a special account too (NPO, ...) you can also fill in the form for schools and we look further.
Kind regards
Robert
please look at www.edumessenger.org - if you still have questions or issues please just contact me.
Kind regards