Moodle plugins directory: Profile field based cohort membership

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local_profilecohort

Maintained by

Ulm University,

Alexander Bias,

Kathrin Osswald

Moodle plugin which lets admins manage cohort memberships based on users' custom profile fields

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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.

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Ulm University (Lead maintainer)

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Alexander Bias: Developer

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Davo Smith
Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 8:30 PM
Nanda - please look at the description at the top of this page for details of how to sort out any problems with this pluign.
László Pauer
Thu, Feb 8, 2018, 11:00 PM
Hi!

What are the capabilities connected to this plugin? If I want to create a role with capabilities only to use this plugin, which would they be?

Thanks!
Davo Smith
Thu, Feb 8, 2018, 11:02 PM
Laszlo - the only capability used by this plugin is moodle/site:config. It is not possible to give a user access to this plugin without giving them site admin access.
Gerhard Schwed
Fri, Jun 29, 2018, 3:15 AM
Hi!
I like this plugin. But why is it limited to custom profile fields?
We need to create cohorts based on standard profile fields like 'institution' and 'department'.
Is it possible to allow also the default fields?

Thanks in advance,
Gerhard
Alexander Bias
Fri, Jun 29, 2018, 3:53 AM
Hi Gerhard,

if you scroll up, you will see that you already asked this question in Nov 2017 and that I answered it. Nothing has changed since then.

Thanks,
Alex
Tamar Alania
Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 4:40 PM
Hello,
I have some problem with the plugin. Cohort remains empty in every cases. Can someone help me with the case?

Thanks
Corey Dodge
Wed, Oct 3, 2018, 1:23 AM
Is there a way to add a different conditional rather than just "if matches". I would like to use "if not" match put into a certain cohort. Such as I have one cohort that only needs to match one conditional and I want everyone else (not including those in the other cohort) into a separate cohort. How can I accomplish this?
Tamar Alania
Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 5:33 PM
Hello Corey, there was a probe with cron and now it works. But i now i have another problem, when some user are divided in course by position, after changing position the activity results are losing about the user. for example the user's quiz information etc.
Majid Hussain
Fri, Jul 5, 2019, 8:16 PM
Hello, this plugin is very handy. The only problem we have with it is that it loads very slowly when there are lots of rules as in our case. We have nearly 500 rules (https://MYMOODLEURL.com/local/profilecohort/index.php) and the page takes a good minute to load all of the data. Can you add pagination as a setting so admins can choose to display let's say 50 rules per page? Regards, Majid
Edd Clementson
Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 2:15 PM
+1 If setting alot of rules the plugin becomes unusable unfortunately because the page won't load. Hopefully introducing pagination would resolve this problem we've experienced on a few occasions. Would be very grateful if a developer could investigate
Alexander Bias
Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 5:29 PM
Hi Majid, hi Edd,

thank you for your input.

If you look at the top of this page, you will find a note that feature requests and issues must be directed to https://github.com/moodleuulm/moodle-local_profilecohort/issues. If one of you could create an issue in Github, we will be more than happy to discuss the topic there.

Cheers,
Alex
Timothy Johnson
Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 5:16 PM
Allowing the user to skip the enrol page is great. It would be nice to have the option to specify a cohort to allow to Auto-Enrol.
Dianne Volek
Mon, Aug 10, 2020, 4:53 AM
This looks exactly the functionality I need - I do have a custom profile field I can use. I am on Moodle V3.9 - do you think it will work on that version?
Ricardo Caiado
Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 4:45 AM
Is it compatible with 3.9+ version of Moodle?
Leo Führinger
Tue, Nov 10, 2020, 11:54 PM
You can find an actual version here: https://github.com/moodleuulm/moodle-local_profilecohort

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