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Allocation form
Activities ::: mod_allocationform
Maintained by
The University of Nottingham,
Neill Magill
The Allocation form module is designed to allow instructors of a course to create slots that the students can sign themselves up to.
Latest release:
16 sites
13 downloads
18 fans
Current versions available: 7
The Allocation form can be used to provide more than one choice ("choose three workshops from the following selection") and/or to have students allocated to their choices fairly based on the overall choices/preferences made by all students using the Allocation Form you've set up.
Contributors
The University of Nottingham (Lead maintainer): Lead maintainer
Neill Magill: UoNDeveloper
Barry Oosthuizen: Original author
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I will look into fixing the SQL issue and check whether there is any agreement here to change to a capability instead of selecting a role. We do use that in most of our plugins so it might be ok with everyone.
Thanks for prompt fixes Barry. Unfortunately I found another cross-DB issue (reported to your tracker). Maybe you could test the plugin functionality on PostgreSQL before submitting for re-approval. I have to mark this as needing more work yet.
Oh I see. I did not understand the problem correctly then. Anyway, thanks for fixing it. It seems to work well now for me. I am going to approve this module. You are cleared to land, welcome to the plugins directory!
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Many thanks for sharing this wonderful plugins with us. The auto allocation is really a good idea. And it is also easy for us to export the result into an excel.
But after I installed this plugin in the latest version of Moodle, I found the allocation form is always waiting for process and no result comes out.
Following is the version information of our environment:
Version: 3.1 (2016052300)
Release: 05.23.2016
PHP: 5.6.20
MySQL: 5.7.12
Could you help with this issue?
Many thanks.
Best wishes,
Lina
On that note, please could I quickly query whether you have any plans to update the plugin to be fully compatible with Moodle v3.1, and its new Global Search feature in particular? To clarify: while we’ve tested the Allocation form plugin under v3.1 and all of the core functionality seems to work fine, we’ve found that instances of the activity are not searchable via v3.1’s Global Search feature. Please see the following screenshot for details, which lists all of the available areas that can searched under v3.1 (note that these settings are available via: Site Administration -> Plugins -> Search -> Manage Global Search):
http://imgur.com/lWWQByE
Note also that the above screenshot was taken on a v3.1 system where the Allocation form plugin is installed and available. However, as you can see, the Allocation form activity is not listed as being available to be searched. Obviously, this is likely to be a significant problem/cause of confusion for users who might want to search for specific instances of the Allocation form activity across Moodle.
I’m not a developer, but my understanding is that mod plugins can be made searchable relatively easily via the addition of a new search class within the plugin’s codebase (located at ../classes/search/activity.php). Please see the following for further details:
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=334938
https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Global_search
https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Search_API
We really hope this search capability can be added to Allocation form as I’m sure it would be a huge benefit to our users (as well as those of other v3.1 systems) and, again, many thanks for all your efforts to develop this plugin and share it with the community.
Best wishes,
Lina
Long Answer: The University of Nottingham plan to upgrade to a 3.x version of Moodle for our academic year 17-18 (by Sept 2017). Therefore we will fix any issues on 3.x as part of our upgrade preparation. This usually takes place Jan-Apr.
Best wishes,
Lina
Before I test this plugin, could you tell me whether it might (or not) address the following scenario :
We have several hundreds of students in health who must take part in a 3-month internship in either schools, hospitals, rest homes and so on all across the whole region, (different places).
These students all have a specialism (e.g. medicine ; nursery ; physiotherapy...) and their allocation should be made in such a way as to always end with interprofessional groups of 5 students, (i.e. groups should be made of 5 students max and include at least 2 different specialisms ; e.g. : group A could be made of 2 medicine students + 3 nurse students, while group B could be made of 2 med students + 2 nurse students + 1 physiotherapy student...).
Would you say this is something we could do using the allocation form plugin ?
Thanks for helping,
Best,
Yannick
The plugin will not handle that.
It is designed for scenarios where some options are more popular than the numbers of spaces on them and you want a way that is not fist come first served for allocating the places. The only thing it considers about the student during allocations are the choices they made.