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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:
2711 sites
1k downloads
152 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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Isuru Madushanka Weerarathna (Lead maintainer)
Rossiani Wijaya: Mentor
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I am expecting to do a major release (v2.0) of this plugin with below most requested features. Hopefully, you all can give me feedback and ideas in here https://github.com/isuru89/moodle-reminders-for-calendar-events/issues
1. Automatically send reminders when a calendar event is just ended, but a user has not completed the activity (assignment, quiz)
2. If a calendar event updated/created/removed, the status will automatically be notified to all respective users.
3. Add timezone and location information to the email
4. and many more bug fixing.
I am delight to announce that a new major version of plugin (v2) has been released for Moodle 3.5 or above. It has so many features. https://github.com/isuru89/moodle-reminders-for-calendar-events#changelog
Hope you find these features useful.
If you find any bug, feature or pull request please report it in here https://github.com/isuru89/moodle-reminders-for-calendar-events/issues
Cheers.
Not is v2.0 =, but sooner. I was already tracking it here https://github.com/isuru89/moodle-reminders-for-calendar-events/issues
The reason I postponed this enhancement is purely based on performance, where there can be a huge perf hit if somebody creates an event in the root category. And also needs special handling of not sending same reminder twice for a user who has enrolled in multiple roles.
Thank you for using the plugin.
Yes, ticking that option should not send reminders once a user has already submitted a file for grading. You can verify those users by viewing all submission for that assignment and see how has `submitted for grading` in light green color. After you said I double-checked with my local (testing) moodle setup and I can confirm its working. I am using same function as it is used by moodle assign plugin which used to render 'view all submissions' page.
Can you be more specific about the kind of assignment settings you have, and also confirming does this happen for all assignments or just this particular assignment.
If you think this is a bug in a special scenario, please be kind enough to raise an issue on the Github page with applied settings and reproducible steps.
The settings that I have applied to the assignment are as follows:
Due date is enabled.
Grade is set to 'scale' with the scale being a 2 option scale of 'Not yet competence, Competent'
Grade to pass is set to 2 (e.g. if Competent is selected as the grade item'
Activity completion is set to 'Student must receive a grade to complete this activity'
The item shows up in the student's calendar as a 'course item'.
Within the general settings for the Activity Events Reminders.
'No reminders once completed' is ticked
'Activity Overdue Reminders' is ticked
'Activity Reminders' is set to 'Only for activity closing'
Send before is set to '3 days'
'Allowed roles' is set to 'Student'
'Enable for Calendar Change Events' is unticked.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks for the info. I could reproduce it using your activity settings. Found out the issue, that reminders are still going when *custom* completion status has been assigned.
I have added this in my repo as a bug and will be fixed soon. https://github.com/isuru89/moodle-reminders-for-calendar-events/issues/62
Thanks for reporting.
I have released a fix in 2.1.1 after testing on Moodle 3.5+. Please verify and let me know if there is anything.
Thank you.