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Newsletter
Activities ::: mod_newsletter
Maintained by David Bogner, Wunderbyte GmbH
This is a newsletter module for moodle. First stable release. It provides the basic features of common newsletter tools. Using it with moodle VERP bounce processing is recommended. But we will add an additional bounce processing feature that will be easier to configure.
Latest release:
292 sites
147 downloads
52 fans
Current versions available: 6
Newsletter module
This is a typical newsletter module for moodle. The features are:
- Subscription methods: Opt in, opt out, forced
- Management of subscribed users: Cohort (un)subscription, Ajax user (un)subscription, filtering users
- Auto generated unsubscribe link
- Subscription of not yet registered users
- Multiple attachments
- Stylesheet: Attach a stylesheet and it will be converted to inline CSS (this is necessary for mail clients)
- Report of sent issues
- Resuming sending newsletter if there was a problem so that all recipients will get the newsletter
- Prevent duplicate message sending
- Issues overview with sort options: year/month/week
- Uses moodle internal VERP bounce system, if it is configured correctly
- Easy to use bounce processing: Just setup the mailbox for the noreply adress defined in the moodle configuration and it will automatically add bounce processing to all the newsletters
- Personalised newsletters: Supported replacement are (The pattern format starting with news:// makes it possible to use in in links without being modified by the editor):
- issueurl (URL pointing to the current issue for web view)
Pattern for replacement: news://issueurl/ - issuelink (a full html link pointing to the web view of the current issue)
Pattern for replacement: news://issuelink/ - firstname (First name of the user, the newsletter is sent to)
Pattern for replacement: news://firstname/ - fullname
Pattern for replacement: news://fullname/
- issueurl (URL pointing to the current issue for web view)
Upcoming features
- Tracking of read newsletter issues
- Statistics
- Templates engine
Useful links
Contributors
David Bogner (Lead maintainer)
Wunderbyte GmbH: Product owner
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yes, in fact we are working on that feature. We will upload a new version this spring.
Kind regards,
David
That's great news. Thank you so much.
Best regards,
Tumer
thanks for plugin.
Is it possible to import newsletter subscribers via the csv file?
Best regards,
Sofia
what you can do is to upload user via CSV Upload in site administration and add the users to a cohort and subscribe the cohort to the newsletter.
Kind regards,
David
What is not possible right now is to have a short version sent out and a long version for online reading. That could be implemented though. We can send you a quote if you are interested in that feature.
In any case where I found the setting about the Auto generated unsubscribe link?
Thank you.
Kind regards,
David
To make sure I have understood you correctly, I ask a further question.
When it says in the plugin description:
" The features are:
- ...
- Management of subscribed users: Cohort (un)subscription, Ajax user (un)subscription, filtering users
- Auto generated unsubscribe link
- ...."
What is meant?
Kind regards,
Sofia
Kind regards,
David
I.e. Atto, or Tiny editor are no longer available. I can only enter plain text.
If I call up an older newsletter, I no longer see the comfortable editor either and the text is currently displayed just in HTML format.
For all other entries and files in Moodle, the editor works normally.
Is this a problem with the plugin running under 4.2?
we only supported 2 text editors (tinymce and plain text) because we needed some JavaScript to interact with the editor and there was not enough resources to support all editors. Now Moodle removed tinymce and replaced it with tiny (tinymce is a legacy version of tiny). That's the reason you only see plain text because tiny is not supported. The JavaScript applies the CSS file to the editor so that you see how your newsletter looks with the CSS file that you selected.
We would need to rewrite the JavaScript (it is still in YUI instead of ES6) and add support for tiny. As none of our clients uses Moodle 4.2 right now we did not do that yet. There is a todo in the code already:
https://github.com/Wunderbyte-GmbH/moodle-mod_newsletter/blob/c43e34f1a6dcfeafc87db5c12f703f2ecf551505/classes/newsletter.php#L934
That's the JS that has to be rewritten as AMD module:
https://github.com/Wunderbyte-GmbH/moodle-mod_newsletter/blob/c43e34f1a6dcfeafc87db5c12f703f2ecf551505/module.js
Kind regards,
David
However, what does it mean for the future of the plugin? Are you going to update it in due time, or will you not be able to modify it recently?
Actually, I'm not able to use it – therefore I need to find a solution soon. Does it make sense to wait and overcome the waiting time with a temp solution, or should I better go for anything new?
Kind regards
Walter