Group self-selection

Activities ::: mod_groupselect
Maintained by Roger Barras
Lets students create and select groups.

Group self-selection 3.17

Moodle 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11
Released: Saturday, 7 March 2020, 5:11 AM

Changes for mod_groupselect

Version 3.17 (2020030600)

  • Fix that members where always hidden for students

Version 3.16 (2020020500)

  • Enable completion rule viewed
  • Remove deprecated text
  • Add the group picture in the main list
  • Provide a 'more help' link to Moodle docs in activity chooser
  • Fixed upgrade.php to match install.xml
  • Option to hide suspended students
  • Option to hide group members
  • Add button to manage groups
  • Fix in calender for MDL-58768
  • Fix for minimum members can now be higher than 9
  • Fix width of group description textarea

Version 3.15 (2018051900)

  • Implemented interface of the privacy api for GDPR (moodle 3.5)

Version 3.14 (2018031606)

  • New settings to allow participants to join or leave groups
  • Added navigation to manage groups for teachers
  • Supervisors could now be unassigned
  • Supporting course reset
  • Solved some issues for using groupselect in moodle 3.4
  • Placeholder "Click to edit" in group description now translatable
  • Fixed some translation strings
  • Removed the due validation, if it is not enabled
  • Supporting now the timeline in the course overview
  • Fixed issue, that the completion event was not visible in the calendar (since moodle 3.3)
  • Fixed buf of missing fields in backup: 'supervisionrole', 'maxgroupmembership'
  • Allow teachers to edit all group descriptions, if they have got the capability
  • Allow participants to create multiple groups
  • Fixed issue that the "teacher" role was nessesary in moodle
  • Removing now supervisors, if they got unenrolled from the course
  • Rearrange settings
  • update default capabilities for teachers, editingteachers and managers enable select, unselect group for teacher, editingteachers and managers enable create groups for editingteachers and managers

Version 3.13 (2017061302)

  • Better error messages for the module administration (via @phish108)
  • Allow to configure participation in multiple groups (fixes issue #8, via @phish108)
  • Allow administrators and teachers to set supervision roles (fixes bug #14, via @phish108)
  • Omit including unnecessary libraries (fixes bug #10, via @lucaboesch)
  • Better conformity with Moodle Coding and Packaging Standards

Older Versions

  • 2017.02.01: Default values for activity settings available
  • 2016.09.07: Export only current grouping if specified
  • 2016.08.26: Enabled show description feature and tableview improvements for longer groupnames
  • 2016.06.11: New option to disable notifications if the open until date is reached
  • 2016.06.06: New option for students to define the group name; New option to avoid that students can define passwords; Fixed validation messages for creating groups, fixed install.xml
  • 2016.06.02: Fixed wrong instance_id in table groupselect_groups_teachers; Backup and restore works now; Added new logging events for adding non-editign teachers and creating a downloadlink; Some small fixes.
  • 2016.05.09: Removed general setting 'requiremodintro', not supported anymore
  • 2015.03.25: Fixed: password was asked when joining group without password (if upgraded from older versions), sql queries should now work with oracle
  • 2014.12.17: Migrated to new logging system
  • 2014.12.15: Small fixes
  • 2014.12.01: Fixed upgrade.php, project renamed as groupselect
  • 2014.11.07: Non-editing teacher assignment, group description editing, improved csv-export, small optional features added
  • 2014.09.11: Fixed mysql insertion related bug, added some notifications and small fixes

Version information

Version build number
2020030600
Version release name
3.17
Maturity
Stable version
MD5 Sum
fbfd8f906ae37b55a7055c2675b5d6e7
Supported software
Moodle 3.5, Moodle 3.6, Moodle 3.7, Moodle 3.8, Moodle 3.9, Moodle 3.10, Moodle 3.11
  • Latest release for Moodle 3.5
  • Latest release for Moodle 3.6
  • Latest release for Moodle 3.7
  • Latest release for Moodle 3.8
  • The more recent release 4.0 (2022112400) exists for Moodle 3.9
  • The more recent release 4.0 (2022112400) exists for Moodle 3.10
  • The more recent release 4.0 (2022112400) exists for Moodle 3.11

Version control information

Version control system (VCS)
GIT
VCS repository URL
VCS branch
GROUPSELECT_3_17_STABLE
VCS tag
v3.17-1

Default installation instructions for plugins of the type Activities

  1. Make sure you have all the required versions.
  2. Download and unpack the module.
  3. Place the folder (eg "assignment") in the "mod" subdirectory.
  4. Visit http://yoursite.com/admin to finish the installation