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Meta-course synchronization to groups
Local plugins ::: local_metasync
Maintained by
Willy Lee,
Charles Fulton,
Andrew Zito
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[SEEKING MAINTAINER] Metasync creates and populates groups in a course based on the enrollment of metalinked courses.
Latest release:
40 sites
11 downloads
13 fans
Current versions available: 5
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Metasync creates and populates groups in a course based on the enrollment of metalinked courses.
Upon adding a course metalink enrollment method, the plugin creates a group named after the linked course's shortname and adds the enrolled users of the linked course to that group. The plugin also watches enrollments in the linked courses to keep the groups up to date.
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Contributors
Willy Lee (Lead maintainer)
Charles Fulton
Andrew Zito
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There's no user facing interface for a useful screenshot. Relatedly, there's nothing to set, so documentation is really just the read me.
There's no user facing interface for a useful screenshot. Relatedly, there's nothing to set, so documentation is really just the read me.
I think for those making use of metacourses, this feature of auto-creating and updating groups can be very helpful. The code looks pretty straight forward.
Please provide a documentation URL. You are welcome to create your documentaiton in Moodle Docs, See http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Plugin_documentation for more information. If you think the README is sufficient you can just link to that (at least initially); however, I think a Moodle Docs page would be better.
One question I had that may come up is what if a teacher does not want the groups? Is there an option for a course to opt-out? I think this needs to be explained a bit more in the documentation. I am going to go ahead and approve this plugin. Perhaps for the screen shot you can just show the created groups. This would actually be better shown in Docs where you could show the enrolments from Math 101 and then the enrolments for Math 102 step through enabling enrol_meta and going to the Math Students course and adding Math 101 and Math 102 enrolments to it and then going to the groups section to show the automatically created groups with the students enroled.
Peace - Anthony
This is a great plugin - I've been looking for something like this for a while. One question or feature request I do have is; Some courses don't want to be used as groups. Is it possible to have an option to create a group when you link the metacourse up to the parent course?
Fantastic Work
Kieran