Sandbox

General plugins (Local) ::: local_sandbox
Maintained by Logo "Moodle an Hochschulen e.V."Moodle an Hochschulen e.V., Alexander Bias
Moodle plugin which programatically restores courses to predefined course states. It can be used to provide playground moodle courses which will be cleaned periodically.
Latest release:
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630 downloads
53 fans
Current versions available: 23

Providing sandbox courses to your users makes sense for simplifying live training courses or for letting new Moodle users explore the features of Moodle. However, manually resetting sandbox courses after a live training session or after a certain amount of time is a daunting task.

If you want to get rid of this senseless job of resetting courses periodically manually, this plugin is for you.

Please see README file for details about the usage and features of this plugin.

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We appreciate your commendation and reviews for this plugin in the comments. For bug reports and support requests, please read the extensive information in the plugin's README file first and create, if needed, a ticket in the bug tracker which is linked below.

Thanks for your cooperation.

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Contributors

Logo "Moodle an Hochschulen e.V."
Moodle an Hochschulen e.V. (Lead maintainer): Maintainer
Alexander Bias: Maintainer
Ulm University: Initial Maintainer
Kathrin Osswald: Former Developer
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  • Alexander Bias
    Wed, 13 Feb 2013, 3:22 PM
    Aparup, thanks for the Moodle Hat award smile
  • Germán and Temudgin
    Tue, 19 Feb 2013, 1:27 AM
    Hi Alexander,
    I just uploaded the mexican spanish translation of your sandbox add-on to AMOS in http://lang.moodle.org/.
    I think it is a very useful plugin.
  • Alexander Bias
    Tue, 19 Feb 2013, 3:08 PM
    German, thank you for the translation!
  • Work Photo 2014
    Wed, 11 Dec 2013, 7:46 PM
    Alexander, this looks great. Pardon my ignorance but I can't find any documentation on using the plugin once it's installed. I've installed and configured. Now, where do I and my users go to actually play in our sandbox? thanks!
  • Alexander Bias
    Thu, 12 Dec 2013, 3:45 PM
    Dear Carol,

    the purpose of the plugin is to programatically restore courses to predefined course states. It does _not_ create any sandbox course after installing, you have to do that yourself.

    Please see the README file (https://github.com/moodleuulm/moodle-local_sandbox/blob/master/README.md) for details.

    If you have any questions after reading, please let me know.
  • Work Photo 2014
    Mon, 10 Feb 2014, 9:11 PM
    Hi Alexander
    Thanks very much and sorry for not acknowledging your reply - I expected to get an automatic email but must not have correct settings in my profile. The readme file is helpful - and of course it is there in the plugin files, so sorry I failed to find it! I will go play with it now. Thanks.
  • Work Photo 2014
    Thu, 13 Feb 2014, 6:38 PM
    Sorry Alexander, I'm a bit stuck! Sandbox installed and configured, one course backup in moodledata/sandbox and I edited the course after taking the backup but it doesn't restore. Cron log shows:

    Processing customized cron scripts ...Processing cron function for local_sandbox...
    ... started 10:00:13. Current memory use 124.3MB.

    No need for restoring sandbox courses so far, let's wait for next cron run time, exiting...

    Have I missed something else simple?
    Thanks - Carol
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