Course Contacts Block

Blocks ::: block_course_contacts

Maintained by

Mark Ward,

Richard Oelmann

The Course Contacts block displays a list of users on your course, various methods for communicating with them, and their current activity status.

Latest release: 11 months

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Release 3.9.0.2

Moodle 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10

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The Course Contacts block displays a list of users on your course and various
methods for communicating with them.

The block is highly customisable and allows you to choose specific roles which
you wish to display users from. By default the block will show teachers on the
course but this can be changed however you wish.

You can also configure which communication types you wish to show, the block
can provide quick links to Email, Message or Telephone each user.

The block also shows whether the user has been active in the last five minutes.

Potential privacy issues

This block can publish contact details for users; be careful when using it on a course with guest access enabled.

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Contributors

Mark Ward (Lead maintainer): Co-author

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Richard Oelmann: Co-author

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Mat Cannings: Tester

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Vladimir S
Mon, May 7, 2018, 10:10 PM
Hello, it seems that it doesn't work very well with "Group mode: Separate groups" and "Force group: Yes" (course settings). All users/students see each other, where they should see people only from their own group. Can this be fixed?
Richard Oelmann
Tue, May 8, 2018, 1:54 AM
Well, It's a course contacts block rather than a group contacts block, so I would think that may need quite a lot of attention and is not something I have time to do at the moment. If someone would like to work on it and send me a pull request I'd be happy to consider it.
alain kerv
Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 4:05 PM
Hello,
I use your plugin CourseConstacts and it's a really good tool. But I have a question about it : I created a new role (duplicate from teacher role), but it's not active by default and I must activate it for every new course on "Roles to show" part.
Where can I change this property for all courses on my moodle site ?
Thanks.
Alain
Richard Oelmann
Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 5:53 PM
Hi Alain, If you have access to your database, and if the settings are the same for all of your courses then one way I have achieved something similar to this in the past is to use the database directly. The plugin creates a string that represents the settings - its in mdl_block_instances as the configdata. You could make the change on one know context, then take that config string and apply it to all the other contexts (either manually or using an UPDATE sql - but PLEASE backup, test, etc before doing that!)
alain kerv
Mon, Jul 16, 2018, 4:32 PM
Hello Richard,
about role activation with an update sql, it's ok, I understand (but it's not really easy !!). another problem : Email option is activate on blocks, but it's not a "mailto" and we need to config email options for any user in the lists of the course_contacts. Is it possible to automate this feature or is it better to use the notification option (and then, how to deactivate email option for all the blocks course_contacts) ?
Thanks,
Alain
alain kerv
Mon, Jul 16, 2018, 5:19 PM
Hello,
I have a question about firstname/lastname on block course_contacts : Sometimes, we have this kind of name (ex : Delphine ARVEN-MOUSLI). With limitations of 18 characters, this name is not correctly shown, But if I exchange the dash (-) with an underscore (_), it's ok !! How I can adjust this problem ?
Thanks !
Alain
LMS Factory
Tue, Nov 27, 2018, 10:20 PM
Hello

i'm using your block in several courses, its very usefull, student really apreciate it. For the first time I have created separated groups in a course, But even if groups are separated i can see users profiles who are not in my groups. Is there any solutions to hide users who dont belongs to my groups (i'm using Moodle 3.5.2)
Thanks
Bruno
Richard Oelmann
Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 2:45 PM
The block is designed as a course contacts block and does not currently support groups. As suggested previously, if someone would like to provide a pull request for group support, I'd be happy to review and implement it, but it is not on my road map to develop at this time.
LMS Factory
Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 3:18 PM
Richard,
Thanks for your answer? I'll pull a request, and understand that it wont be available short term.
Vladimir S
Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 4:51 PM
Hi Richard, I've made a pull request for group support, when you have time, please take a look.
Lastern Nom
Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 10:03 PM
Hi,

I have a question, when I click the messaging button in your "course contact block" it seems to go to a the "message" page and open the side panel there.
Is it possible to open the messaging side panel on the page itself without going to the "message page" ?
Qualis Products
Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 4:18 PM
nice post
Carlos Vazquez
Mon, May 25, 2020, 6:32 PM
You cannot install the version for 3.5 by git because that branch is missing. I have installed it on a 3.5.12+ and with the debug activated it comes out: Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$description in /var/www/moodle/blocks/course_contacts/block_course_contacts.php on line 268
Richard Oelmann
Wed, May 27, 2020, 3:06 PM
So what version have you installed?
Jayden Tyronian
Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 5:35 AM
I had been using this on our 3.8 site. I’ve upgraded us now to 3.10.

The block appears but no longer shows the teaching staff. It will show students perfectly fine.

I am seeing if it’s something I can manually and easily tweak, but wondering if a 3.10 update to this one was coming and when? I haven’t seen many like this and we heavily utilise the block.

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