Moodle welcome

General plugins (Local) ::: local_welcome
Maintained by Bas Brands
Sends a welcome message to new users, sends a notification to a moderator of the new user creation
Latest release:
1451 sites
391 downloads
136 fans
Current versions available: 3

Usage:

This plugin sends one email message to users that are new in Moodle and one email to a moderator.

This will work to all standard moodle authentication systems:

  • manually created users
  • users that signed up
  • users authentication through LDAP
  • all other standard authentication systems

Configuration can be done using:

Site administration->Plugins->Local plugins->Moodle welcome

Configurable fields are:

enable / disable welcome messages to users
enable / disable welcome messages to moderators

message send to user
message send to moderator

message subject for user
message subject for moderator

send from firstname
send from lastname
send from email address

moderator email address

Installation:

Download and install in your /local folder in moodle's wwwroot

Run Moodle notifications,

Configure your email messages / moderators etc

Screenshots

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Contributors

Bas Brands (Lead maintainer)
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  • Bas Brands
    Thu, 20 Feb 2014, 4:41 PM
    smile Of course the template fields need to have the square brackets around them (see comment before mine) ..

    Grrrrrr -> Markdown
  • Darrell Taylor
    Thu, 6 Mar 2014, 8:08 PM
    Hi Bas,

    Are there any further developments on this excellent plugin? I'd really like to see the ability to include the user's password. Also, when I tried your plugin the default Moodle new user email was sent as well; how do I ensure that only one email goes out to each user?
  • Salim Karim
    Mon, 12 May 2014, 11:50 PM
    emailing not sending
  • Bruno Ferreira
    Tue, 10 June 2014, 12:15 AM
    Hi all,

    This is a great plugin, but i'm having a little problem. When I register a new user he receives two welcome emails. Can anyone help me solving this problem?
  • Bruno Ferreira
    Tue, 10 June 2014, 12:16 AM
    I'm using the version for moodle 2.2
  • Aster Blistok
    Sun, 22 June 2014, 11:51 AM
    Hi, is there any way that we can include custom profile fields in the e-mail output? To define template fields based on custom user profile fields?

    Thanks
  • Bas Brands
    Mon, 23 June 2014, 3:43 PM
    Hi Aster, This is not a feature of the plugin at the moment. I will add it to the wish list.
  • wen photo
    Sat, 28 June 2014, 2:40 PM
    Bas, thanks for such a wonderful plugin! I wonder if you could add to the wish list for including a initial "randomized" password in the Welcome email? I know we can use "changeme" to force students to change their initial password, but with a generic initial password, it is not really secure. It would be great if each student gets an different randomly generated initial password and that password is included in the Welcome message. Thanks again!
  • Bas Brands
    Sun, 29 June 2014, 3:21 PM
    Hi Wen Hao Chuang, thanks! Moodle already supports sending out randomized passwords when uploading users, simply leave the password field empty when doing a CSV upload. This plugin cannot access the users passwords since it is triggered after the password has been encrypted and stored in the database.
  • wen photo
    Mon, 30 June 2014, 12:02 AM
    Thanks Bas for your reply!
    Yes I know that Moodle could send out randomized passwords when uploading users. Do you know of any "work around" that would be able to combine that initial password email WITH a customized "Welcome" message (e.g. using this plugin)? I think maybe two emails for each new student is a little bit too much for students. Thanks again!
  • Diego -
    Tue, 12 Aug 2014, 4:26 PM
    does anybody tried to use it in moodle 2.7.1?
  • Blair F.
    Thu, 9 Oct 2014, 4:56 AM
    I have a wishlist item to add: filter who the message goes to. Maybe I'm asking too much.

    My selfish reason-- I want to send it only to teachers. So, those with an email pattern unique to teacher accounts at our institution.
  • Daniel
    Mon, 13 Oct 2014, 2:14 PM
    hello,
    Soon for Moodle 2.7 ?
    cheers
    Daniel
  • Bas Brands
    Mon, 13 Oct 2014, 10:35 PM
    I have just added a update for Moodle 2.7
  • Daniel
    Sun, 19 Oct 2014, 4:35 PM
    Yes!
    Super ! (in french...)
    Your plugin is very useful
    Daniel
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