Moodle plugins directory: Auto Attendance

Can't wait to try the new options, thanks! Have customized this plugin a bit though so updating will be tricky.

Suggestion: Emailing teachers when attendance "manual" attendance isn't taken?

Also the list of sessions can grow very long. Maybe change the way sessions are listed (i.e. by month)

updated and tested. backing up/importing now seems to be working! Thanks Fumikazu!

Have another request for you

Think it would be possible to add a feature for manual and semi auto sessions that alerts teachers when a class attendance hasn't been taken (modified) by the time the session ends? Something along the lines of if a no student has checked in and a teacher hasn't signed in any student.

I know for semi auto sessions the session automatically sets students to absent if they haven't checked in by the end of the session so that may be difficult.

also if along with notifying teachers, if it can also be noted beside the session on the sessions page so teachers/admins can skim through the list and see any missed sessions.

Hope that all makes sense. I appreciate all the work you have done with this plug in.

Dear Fumikazu
Our network staff has given me a much simpler way of writing Allowed IP (10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) which works for us. So I am pulling the request to give the Allowed IP field more characters.
This might still be an issue for others - but my problem is solved. I am sorry if I caused you to work on this issue.

Oh!
I corrected allow IP filed length to 250 now.
But it was very easy work!

Thanks.

Hi Fumikazu,
I'm doing some test of the newest version of your plugin, specially the new backup feature (Great!!). Now backing up a course with autoattend activities doen't break the grades, congrats!! But i can't get the autoattend sessions to be restored into the new course ¿?¿?

The autoattend block and activity are restored succesfully but empty: autoattend item in gradebook is there with all users grades, but there is no sessions defined in the block in the restored course, and there is no data about users states in each session.

Tested in Moodle v2.6

Hi again,
please check line 43 of [MOODLE]/blocks/autoattend/backup/moodle2/backup_autoattend_stepslib.php. I'm not sure of the meaning of "backupblock" field in DB, but its value in the table autoattendmod is always 0. In the line 43 there is an "if" that aborts all backup process returning an (almost) empty xml.

...
36 //$block = $DB->get_record('block_instances', array('id' => $this->task->get_blockid()));
37 $courseid = $this->get_courseid();
38 $backup_block = $DB->get_field('autoattendmod', 'backupblock', array('course'=>$courseid));
39
40 //
41 // Define each element separated
42 $autoattend = new backup_nested_element('autoattend', array('id'), null);
43 if (!$backup_block) return $this->prepare_block_structure($autoattend);
...

Removing the "!" in line 43, Moodle executes all backup script correctly.

Can you confirm this fix??

Regards.

Hi,

Autoattend's main data is managed by Autoattend Block rather than Autoattendmod Module.

If you want to backup block data, please check "Backup of Attendance Data"

Backup of Attendance Data" is at "Setting of Autoattendmod" (module) -> "Options of Auto Attendance module"

Thanks.

Ah, OK!!!
Now i know what is the meaning of that field XD
Sorry for my lack of attention!

Thanks!

is mod_autoattendmod required for block_autoattend?

It is not required, but I recommend to install it.

Just so anyone having the same issue as me (Potential coding error - existing temptables found when disposing database. Must be dropped!) when doing a backup, you must have both the block and module installed to be able to backup a course. We get the functionality we want with just the block, so I wish there was a way to use the plugin without the module installed!

How the automatic attendance is taken ? The students must be online during all the session ?

Hi,
Please see https://docs.moodle.org/25/en/Autoattendance_block

Dear Fumikazu

Thank you for your good work.

I would like to ask you what do you do in relation to summer time (daylight saving time)?
I discovered that if I create sessions that - cross the date where we are supposed to reset the clock - all sessions are pushed one hour forward.
(That is in the Fall - in the spring sessions will be moved one hour later than intended).

If I take this into account and compensate this hour - will the "session start" remain correct when we pass 30th of October 2016?

Sorry, I have no ideas now.