Activities: Grouptool
mod_grouptool
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AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
The grouptool module (mod/grouptool) enhances the functionality of Moodle default groups. Two of the additional features are the possibility for students to enrol themselves in groups with waiting lists, and the transfer of grades within groups.
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Grouptool module
The Grouptool module (mod/grouptool)
enhances the functionality of Moodle default groups. Two of the
additional features are the possibility for students to enrol in groups
with waiting lists on their own, and the transfer of grades within
groups.
The grouptool module features the following functionalities:
- automatic creation of groups with simultaneous enrolment of participants (optional)
- 1-person groups
- groups with pre-defined numbers of persons or groups
- groups with certain pre-defined group names, consisting of [lastname], [firstname], [idnumber], [usernumber], numbers, alphabetical indexes, and pure text
- simultaneous creation of groupings for each group created
- self-enrolment of participants in exisiting groups:
- activate the groups and specify their order for each grouptool instance
- use a waiting list system with optional limitation of the number of participants
- define the maximum number allowed per group or for all available groups
- allow each participant to enrol in several groups (min./max.)
- group grades - transfer awarded grades to other group participants
- automatically for all groups or just for some
- select the participant from whom the grade is to be transferred
Example
Create groups and allow students to form groups of no more than five members each to work on a joint project during the semester.
Installation
Copy the module code directly to the "mod/grouptool" directory. Open the messages page in the administration area to automatically start the installation.
Admin settings
As an administrator you can set the default values instance-wide on the settings page for administrators in the grouptool module:
- default naming scheme (text field)
- allow self-enrolment (checkbox)
- show group members (checkbox)
- immediate enrolment (checkbox)
- allow unenrolment (checkbox)
- general default group size (text field)
- limited group size (checkbox)
- define different group sizes (checkbox)
- use waiting lists (checkbox)
- maximum number of waiting lists a participant can be on at the same time (checkbox)
- multiple enrolments (checkbox)
- minimum number of groups to be selected (text field)
- maximum number of groups to be selected (text field)
- sync behaviour:
- when adding a group member (drop down)
- when deleting a group member (drop down)
- when deleting a group (drop down)
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But please be aware that the master branch is subject to possible rebases/resets in the current state of our development process.
And if you need the changes right now and are familiar with PHP or have at least access to the Moodle's source code, you can replace line 254 of "YOURMOODLEDIR"/mod/grouptool/locallib.php with
$data[$key] .= substr($member->$tag, 0, 5);
(Attention: The line number is only valid for the Version v3.3.1 and may differ in other versions!)
"immediate enrolment (checkbox)" - are you talking about enrolling into a group, becoming a member to group? I'm confused by your use of 'enrollment' here. Thanks
with the "immediate enrolemnt" checkbox we talk about enrolling into a group (yes, becoming a member of the Moodle group). Wording in mod_grouptool is a little bit tough due to us having a second layer over the Moodle groups.
Each Moodle group is represented in mod_grouptool and we can register students either in mod_grouptool only - until a teacher transfers the (de)registrations to Moodle itself, or we have the registrations transparent and immediatly also done in Moodle's groups. The mentioned checkbox ensures that every (de)registration in mod_grouptool is immediately done in Moodle's corresponding group too. If it isn't activated the teacher has to press a button to have the current status of mod_grouptool's group registrations transfered to Moodle's groups.
I hope I could clarify the setting and just ask further if there are any questions!
cheers,
Philipp