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Profile field based cohort membership
Moodle core provides a mechanim to manually fill cohorts with users (on Site administration -> Users -> Accounts -> Cohorts). This is fine for small Moodle installations where the cohort members don't change too often and where the Moodle admin has plenty of time to update the cohorts.
Now, larger or fragmented Moodle installations may have the need to manage a large number of cohorts which have a large amount of members and which may also change quite often. Managing cohorts by hand in such scenarios is simply unprofessional overkill - even / particularly if you distribute the work among multiple Moodle admins.
On the other hand these large or fragmented Moodle installations might already have some custom user profile fields which can be leveraged to decide which cohort(s) a user should be a member of. This plugin implements a simple solution to manage cohort memberships based on a users' custom profile field.
Please see README file for details about the usage and features of this plugin.
This plugin is considered feature-complete.
It will be maintained for the time being, but will not receive any substantial improvements or new features anymore. Please consider the more versatile plugin tool_dynamic_cohorts by Catalyst IT as an alternative.
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I would like to know if I can manage more than 500 cohorts with this plugin?
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just add :
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i think it would be interressent to make the change directly in the next release
The plugin is certainly very interesting and for me solves quite a bit of work. Unfortunately, since I have multiple criteria by which I have to place users in different cohorts, the current layout seem to be inefficient and also heavy. Would it be possible to improve the interface for creating rules, for example through the use of radio buttons or check buttons and AND/OR selectors?
Another interesting feature would be the possibility to handle exceptions, or better yet, manually add users to a group, even if it does not match the default automatic criteria.
In any case thank a lot for this plugin.
1) ameliorate the look and feel and apply the AND/OR logic
2) give the possibility to select the enrolment date
thank you
Andrea
In the screenshot above there appears to now be an option to have the rule to match a specific value within a field, e.g. "Mathematics" or "Computer Science" as shown above.
Does this mean the plugin can now identify specific values inside a field (rather than only identifying whether the field is empty or not) and most importantly, can it identify specific values in a drop down field?
If anyone can tell me if the plugin can now identify values within a drop down field and from which version of the plugin (4.1, 4.2 or 4.3) this option became available I'd be really grateful.
Thanks.