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Recommendation letters and appraisals
Activities ::: mod_recommend
Maintained by 
Marina Glancy
Allows participant to request recommendations or appraisals. Recommending person receives a link to fill the form online without logging in to moodle. Teacher can set up questions, view and accept responses.
Latest release:
27 sites
6 downloads
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Current versions available: 1
This module can help with admission process when prospective students are required to provide recommendation letters as part of application. Another possible use case is the appraisal by the external person, for example, for summer work experience.
Teacher can set up questions in the recommendation form, maximum number of requests, minimum number of completed recommendation for activity completion.
Students can request recommendations/appraisals using the web form specifying only the name and the e-mail of the recommending person. An e-mail with unique link will be sent to recommending person asking to fill the form online. After the recommendation form is completed teacher will receive notification and can accept or reject recommendation.
Student can not see his recommendations but is able to see the current status (pending, completed, accepted, rejected).
Teacher can set up questions in the recommendation form, maximum number of requests, minimum number of completed recommendation for activity completion.
Students can request recommendations/appraisals using the web form specifying only the name and the e-mail of the recommending person. An e-mail with unique link will be sent to recommending person asking to fill the form online. After the recommendation form is completed teacher will receive notification and can accept or reject recommendation.
Student can not see his recommendations but is able to see the current status (pending, completed, accepted, rejected).
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Marina Glancy (Lead maintainer)
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I'm starting reviewing your plugin on behalf of Moodle plugin guardians. I should get back with results later on today
Regards,
Ivan
I'm having a usage issue with the plugin. In the Edit question -> add question -> Collection of radio buttons -> help for Options it says,
"Specify one option per line, prefix each line with the weight and / sign"
Now, "weight" becomes not obvious, as when i add 4 options with weight 1, they all are reported as checked when a person giving the recommendation selects any one of them
Apparently, they (weights) must be unique as they are used as indexes, but here the question is - why specifying them at all as it can be the line numbers?
If it still makes sense (so they are the weights and the weights cannot be same), a change to the help is needed
Ivan
Another thing, the email the plugin sends, is multipart mime type that contains text/plain and text/html messages, and in the text message the html line break tags < br /> are present
Ivan
Thanks Marina for sharing this plugin with the community, and thanks Ivan for the detailed peer-review. So far none of the reported issues sounds like a blocker for the plugin approval. Ivan, can you please report such findings as individual issues into the plugin's issue tracker? Thanks in advance.
I have not finished my review yet, could you please wait until i report that explicitly?
I did not report any of issues i found in the bug tracker as i do not think they are real issues, rather my doubts and notes for Marina
Thanks,
Ivan
Hi Ivan. Sure, I was going to wait, I did not mean it as a final comment - sorry for not being clear. Using github for tracking individual issues just seems to work better for keeping track and focus than replying to comments here - for both us and the maintainer (who can mark such issues as resolved or keep them open for working on them later).
Marina, can you please review my notes above? As already stated, there is nothing serious, but maybe you will find something to improve, including the coding style errors, which seems to be very easy to do
Best regards,
Ivan
Regarding the autosave error on the guest form - it is a [known] problem with Atto. I knew about it for a long time but could not find an issue now and had to create a new one - MDL-55744
Thanks Ivan for the detailed peer-review and thanks Marina for the replies. Please note the plugin has been put into the "needs more work" status. Once you believe all raised issues were addressed, do not forget to schedule it for re-approval. Thanks for your patience with the review and approval process.