The Plenary meeting activity module organizes online and in person meetings following traditional rules of parliamentary procedure. It may be used as a tool to teach skills to conduct a meeting or to structure and administer faculty, staff, student or other organizational meetings.

Users are granted the privileges to speak, make motions, vote or chair meetings through Moodle capabilities and roles. The activity maintains a record of motions to provide meeting minutes. User actions are logged in Moodle log system.

The activity can be used with an in person event or as an online event. It has a integration with Deft response block to allow audio and video to be shared based on whether the user is recognized to speak in the activity. There are two meeting forms provided integrating with Jitsi meet. Other web conference or media servers also can be used as long as users can be managed by them manually.

Dependencies

The Deft response block is required as a dependency to install. The basic functions for the plugin will work without any external dependencies. However, the video conferencing options require external services to work.

The Deft video meeting form requires that Deft response block is configured to work with the service from deftly.us. See Deft response block documentation for more information. A free account can be created at deftly.us to obtain a sample course there with this plugin configured.

The Jitsi Meet meeting forms require access to a Jitsi Meet server that is secured with a shared secret.  One can choose a Jitsi hosting provider or install a local copy of Jitsi meet. Configuration is compatible with the Jitsi activity module.