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Event Reminders
General plugins (Local) ::: local_reminders
Maintained by 
Isuru Madushanka Weerarathna
This plugin will automate sending reminders for calendar events.
Latest release:
2703 sites
1k downloads
151 fans
Current versions available: 10
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
- 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)
Rossiani Wijaya: Mentor
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Also, regarding suspended users. I was under the assumption that Moodle itself will discard outbound messages for suspended users. Because that's what mentioned in the help tooltip near the suspend option under a user.
Stay tuned for next release and progress can be seen in https://github.com/isuru89/moodle-local_reminders/issues/113
Users themselves should be able to turn off these reminders messages from their incoming messages. If they do not want reminders, they can turn off all messages matching the pattern of reminders_*
I would like you to report this as an issue in GitHub repository https://github.com/isuru89/moodle-local_reminders/issues , So I would be able to take an action on it.
I am unclear what you want to change if it is not the title. All the other details are taken from Moodle core event object. The description part is the event description the user has given when creating it.
Currently there is a limitation that you can't add custom texts in reminders email because managing them for each reminder will be a daunting task from the user perspective.
Thank you in advance,
Nige.
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I could able to release a new plugin version (v2.4) with a new feature that allows reminders to be explicitly enabled by teachers per course level. Currently, all reminders are enabled and teachers have to disable them and in a site where hundreds of courses, disabling all events, would be seemingly impossible. So, with this new feature, now Moodle admins can choose to disable activity reminders by default and let teachers enable/disable as desired.
Note: this will not affect the existing events if a teacher has enabled/disabled them on the course reminder page.
Thanks all for your feedback to make this feature complete.
KInd regards
This plugin is great, but I have four questions:
1. Are we able to enable this plugin only in specific Moodle categories?
2. Are we able to enable the reminder for opening sections (topics) within Moodle? (Notify for example that class 1 is being released today as we set the restrictions by date in this section).
3. What is the label "enabledoverdue" for, what happens if we leave it enabled or disabled?
4. How to enable the opening reminder for a task activity (assign) as we have in the quiz?
Thank you very much