Event Reminders

General plugins (Local) ::: local_reminders

Maintained by

Isuru Madushanka Weerarathna

This plugin will automate sending reminders for calendar events.

Latest release: 4 weeks

2696 sites

864 downloads

147 fans

Current versions available: 10

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This plugin will automatically send email reminders for Moodle calendar events in a timely manner.

Reminders are very useful for both students as well as teachers to recall their scheduled events and activities before the actual moment.

Latest Feature (with plugin v2.5)

The plugin provides a way to customize the email header/footer with desired HTML content! This means now you can add your site branding to those email reminders too. (See updated screenshots)

New Features: (in v2+ which works in Moodle 3.5 or above)

Ability to send reminders after event completed for overdue students
Ability to enable/disable and schedule reminders per activity
Explicitly reminder enables: By default no reminders will be sent unless teachers enable them in course level.
Reminder email messages when calendar event created/changed/removed
Prevent sending more email reminders once a student has completed the activity
Added timezone/location to the email due dates
Support for course category events
Ability to customize email header/footer with the branding of the site
Additional cron task to clean old reminder data
Send reminders only to students who can submit the assignment

Features:

Supports site, course, activity, user, and group calendar events
Ability to customize the reminder schedule globally
Ability to customize enable/disable reminders per course
Ability to select reminders eligible user roles per calendar event type

Prerequisite for plugin v1.5.1 or prior:

Your moodle site must enable logging to make the plugin work properly.
The Cron job should be enabled
Cron job should not be lagged to send reminders for custom schedules which has tight schedules.

Note: Please report any issue or feature request at https://github.com/isuru89/moodle-reminders-for-calendar-events by specifying reproducible steps, cron logs (scheduled task logs), and affected moodle + plugin versions.

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Contributors

Isuru Madushanka Weerarathna (Lead maintainer)

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Rossiani Wijaya: Mentor

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David Kummerow
Sun, Mar 13, 2022, 11:52 AM
Hi Isuru,
Thanks for getting back and explaining the requirement of having activity completion enabled. I don't have activity completion enabled, so that explains why the reminders are sent. I've disabled the sending of overdue reminders for the time being.
Jochen Metzger
Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 7:16 PM
The plugin is great but I miss an additional functionality. Currently the reminder setting for the start and the end of an activity is coupled. In our case we use reminders 16, 7 and 1 day before an activity ends. That is not useful for the actvity start and annoying the course participants. We only need one reminder e.g. 1 day, 2 hours or 30 minutes before an activity start. Should it be possible that in a further revision the reminder setting for activity start and activity end could be decoupled?
Isuru Madushanka Weerarathna
Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 8:15 PM
@Jochen
Thank you for your feedback.
Would you be able to raise a github ticket as a feature request, so that I can allocate my time and see if I could work.
https://github.com/isuru89/moodle-local_reminders/issues
Frank Madison
Wed, Jun 29, 2022, 5:17 AM
Will this work with version 4.0.x?
Mike Wilday
Thu, Sep 1, 2022, 12:09 AM
Do you have plans for a 4.0 version?
John Anderson
Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 11:52 PM
Hi found how course reminders are set and managed within a course, it's great! Trying to understand how Site or Category events send reminders, or how are those set ? Thank you for this work.
puneet jhingan
Tue, Nov 1, 2022, 9:05 PM
Hello, I sincerely hope you are able to find time soon to upgrade the plugin to 4.0 .. not complaining, but its been a while since February
Isuru Madushanka Weerarathna
Sun, Nov 6, 2022, 1:54 PM
Upgraded to moodle v4
Adam Brooks
Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 12:33 AM
I very much appreciate this functionality. We have been presented with concerns about presenting the "Cut-off date" to learners within email notifications. This information may confuse learners from the actual deadline. How can this be removed or disabled? I do not see options via the visual admin interface. I am reviewing the recent code package and was hope you could suggest associated php files or config to update. Thanks!
Sebastien Jaffredo
Wed, Mar 8, 2023, 5:41 PM
Hello. I just installed the plugin. I want to limit reminders to only chosen assignments. I'm not sure how to set reminder for a given assignment. The documentation is not very clear for me on this matter. Could you help me ? Thanks.
Maimouna Abdallah
Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 10:19 PM
Hi Isuru, images are not displayed in notifications sent by the plugin. Do you know why. we only have an icon displayed instead.
THANKS
Bertrand Letot
Mon, Aug 28, 2023, 9:09 PM
Hello,
Have you test the plugin on a moodle 4.1 (.5+)
Regards
Евгений Мамаев
Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 6:13 PM
Hi! Is there some sort of queue for outgoing emails or will it send lots of emails at once?
Janie Vachon
Wed, Oct 11, 2023, 4:07 AM
Hi, Since I change my moodle site to another server, the messages from the event reminders plugins are sent with the wrong server, the last one. I changed the outgoing settings in the server section of the administration site. But, unfortunately, I did not resole my problem. Where can I make the modifications correctly?
Mandala Pati
Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 5:12 PM
Do I understand correctly that there are no individual settings for separate course? That means settings will be same for all courses I manage as admin. I want to have custom settings for different courses.