Auto Group

General plugins (Local) ::: local_autogroup
Maintained by Mark Ward, Emma Richardson, Arnaud Trouvé
A local plugin which automatically assigns enrolled users on a course into groups dependant upon information within their user profile. (Now with custom profile field support - called User Info Field in settings.) This plugin will create, update, and delete groups automatically to match the users on your course. All behaviour is event-driven and so will occur within page loads. The system can also monitor manual group setting changes and moderate them to ensure that groups are kept neat and tidy.

Auto Group 2.4

Moodle 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
Released: Tuesday, 3 July 2018, 9:58 PM
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AutoGroup Local Plugin

Automatically assigns enrolled users on a course into groups dependant upon information within their user profile.

This plugin will create, update, and delete groups automatically to match the users on your course. All behaviour is event-driven and so will occur within page loads.

The system can also monitor manual group setting changes and moderate them to ensure that groups are kept neat and tidy.

Changelog

v2.4 *Fixed unnecessary processing on profile update. Thanks to Luuk Verhoeven for this addition. * v2.3   Added support for custom profile fields. Thanks to Arnaud Trouvé for this addition. * v2.2 * Performance enhancement: Event listeners now check to see whether triggered by AutoGroup * v2.1 * Switched to individual toggles for event listeners * Minor change to settings structure for improved usability * Fixed compatibility with Moodle 3.1 and onwards * v2.0 * Added support for defining multiple grouping sets on one course * Sort modules are now fully modular * Added new sort module for Totara positional assignments * v1.1 * Fixed a bug which would have resulted in roles being removed from all groupsets across a site * Changed default permissions for plugin files * v1.01 * Added event handler for course_restored and related setting * v1.0 * Stable release. Tested for compatibility with Moodle 2.7 and 2.8

Install

Install the plugin, like any other plugin.
See http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_plugins#Installing_a_plugin for details on installing Moodle plugins.

Maintainer

The module was authored by Mark Ward (me@moodlemark.com). It is now being maintained by Emma Richardson.

Thanks to

Development for v1.0 of the plugin was funded by East Central BOCES (http://www.ecboces.org/)

Many ideas and suggestions for the functionality of the plugin were contributed by Emma Richardson at East Central BOCES.

Thanks to Arnaud Trouvé for the addition of custom profile field support.

Technical Support

Issue tracker can be found on GitHub. Please try to give as much detail about your problem as possible and I'll do what I can to help.

License

Released Under the GNU General Public Licence http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Version information

Version build number
2018070300
Version release name
2.4
Maturity
Stable version
MD5 Sum
4d144226b22aaacd0b53a905a6e79061
Supported software
Moodle 3.1, Moodle 3.2, Moodle 3.3, Moodle 3.4, Moodle 3.5, Moodle 3.6

Version control information

Version control system (VCS)
GIT
VCS repository URL

Default installation instructions for plugins of the type General plugins (Local)

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