Meta-course group synchronization

Local plugins ::: local_metagroups
Maintained by Paul Holden
Automatically synchronize groups from child courses into meta-courses.
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Meta-course functionality in Moodle currently lacks the ability to synchronize groups from child courses in to a meta-course. This plugin implements this functionality by listening for relevant events related to groups.

After installing the plugin, any amendments to groups (add, update and delete) and their membership (add or remove users) from child courses will be automatically reflected in the linked meta-course.

Meta groups

See the project readme file for the most up to date instructions.

Supports Moodle version 4.1 onwards (up to and including 4.5).

Build status

The latest plugin release is 4.5 (8 October 2024):

  • Support for Moodle 4.5

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Paul Holden (Lead maintainer)
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  • Sarah Ricketts
    બુધ, 25 મે 2016, 8:14 PM
    Hi Paul, I know you kindly tested this plugin with early 3.0 back in July last year and it seemed to work ok. Is there an intention to officially release an update before Sept 2016 to work with 3x? Many thanks.
  • Paul Holden
    ગુરુ, 14 જુલાઈ 2016, 4:32 PM
    I've tested on latest 3.2 (dev) & all works as expected, so I've updated the list of supported versions to 2.6 -> 3.1 સ્મીત
  • Alexandre Scherbyna
    શનિ, 18 ફેબ્રુ 2017, 6:29 AM
    Hi Paul,
    Unfortunately your plug-in creates and synchronizes only groups, created AFTER meta-link is set. Plugin does not see any groups that were created EARLIER. Is it possible to make a change, so that ALL groups from the course can be synchronized?
  • Sarah Ricketts
    મંગળ, 21 ફેબ્રુ 2017, 5:31 PM
    Alexandre, if you follow the link 'more documentation on this plugin' it describes how you can run a script to sync existing groups, we've used this and it works fine. Hope this helps.
  • Alexandre Scherbyna
    બુધ, 22 ફેબ્રુ 2017, 12:50 AM
    Thank you, Sarah. The script has solved the problem.
  • jocelin Devalette
    શનિ, 16 ડિસે 2017, 11:57 PM
    Hi i upgrade my moodle to 3.3 and it seems the syncronization doesn't work
  • Sarah Ricketts
    શુક્ર, 16 માર્ચ 2018, 12:12 AM
    Hi Paul, any chance of a 3.3 release?
  • Sarah Ricketts
    ગુરુ, 7 જૂન 2018, 11:09 PM
    Hi, has anyone successfully tested this plugin on 3.4?
  • Dave Emsley
    મંગળ, 27 ઑક્ટો 2020, 10:20 PM
    Hi there, Just installed version 2018120701 on Moodle 3.3 - yes I know but that's where the client is and doesn't want to rock the boat - It doesn't seem to work. Should it have added some scheduled tasks to the list? Or is it supposed to be clever than that and trigger automatically?

    Best Regards
    Dave
  • Dave Emsley
    બુધ, 16 ડિસે 2020, 7:23 PM
    Hi there,

    Installed on a Moodle 3.9 and not working.

    The metacourse has two child courses. If I bulk upload the users with the groups created via the CSV file this works on the Metacourse, and the enrolments go to the child courses, but the groups are not created.

    I've tried running the cli/sync.php file as instructed and this doesn't seem to do anything; even in verbose mode.


    demsley@sc1430:/home/public_html/moodle/local/metagroups/cli$ sudo php sync.php -v
    demsley@sc1430:/home/public_html/moodle/local/metagroups/cli$


    I would appreciate some advice on what I'm doing wrong,


    Cheers
    Dave
  • Carly Born
    ગુરુ, 31 ડિસે 2020, 9:13 AM
    I am having the same issue as Dave, the cli tool does not seem to do anything at all. However, if I manually remove and then recreate the course meta-link, it appears to work.
  • Hugo Ribeiro
    બુધ, 27 ઑક્ટો 2021, 11:43 PM
    has anyone been able to get it to work on Moodle 3.9? The cli sync.php doesn't do anything here so it seems..
  • Mark Berthelemy
    ગુરુ, 2 જૂન 2022, 10:34 PM
    I'm testing this on Moodle 3.10, and haven't yet been able to get it working. I installed the plugin before setting up any metalinks or groups.
  • mamiko Minato
    બુધ, 21 સપ્ટે 2022, 12:33 PM
    Are you able to set up groups for meta-linked courses? I couldn't get it to work at first, but when I turned on group settings for meta-linked courses, it worked. (Moodle3.9)
  • Tom F
    રવિ, 13 એપ્રિલ 2025, 8:45 PM
    Hi, thanks for this great plugin. But, is it just me who's not able to use this plugin?
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