Moodle plugins directory: Mass Actions block

Blocks: Mass Actions block

block_massaction

Maintained by

Clem Smith

This block allows instructors to perform actions upon multiple resources or activities, rather than having to perform repeated actions on individual items.

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Release v1.2.10

Moodle 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7

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This block allows instructors to perform actions upon multiple resources or activities, rather than having to perform repeated actions on individual items.

To use this block, Javascript must be enabled in your browse and you must be in editing mode in the course home page. The user must have capability "block/massaction:use". The block may now be used with a course in any course format. However, the OneTopic format is not properly supported at this time. The work-around is to change course formats to another format (Weekly or Topics are well-tested), move the course content around, then change the course format back to OneTopic. I will try to fix the interaction between OneTopic and Mass Actions in the future.

Supported actions include mass selection, indentation, deletion, hiding, showing, and moving. To select items to perform actions on, simply click the checkbox to the right of it in the course home page or use select functionality, then click the action you would like to perform in the block.

Note: the original block for Moodle 1.9 is on http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-20213; this is the version for Moodle 2.

If you encounter bugs or have suggestions for improvement, please use the bug tracker URL and I will work on those as quickly as possible.

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Contributors

Clem Smith (Lead maintainer)

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Huy Hoang: Original maintainer

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Jon Marthaler: Former developer

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Dominic Hanzely: Former developer

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Sal Iacono
Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:21 AM
Nevermind... it is magically working now... (I'm so happy)
Sal Iacono
Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:26 AM
OK... now there is weirdness I can't understand... so far it is working in 4 of my courses but I have one where it won't work. It is doing exactly as I described in my Aug 15 comment...???
Daniel Antonio da Silva
Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 3:35 AM

Checkbox does not appear on all topics
If I click on 'select all', nothing gets selected.
version is the Moodle 3.5+ (Build: 20180628)
Donald Barrett
Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 4:27 AM
Hey Clem,

There are a few issuse when use the onetopic course format that has multiple parent sections with child sections.

1. Bulk move activities between sections that have child sections between the transition:

A course has 5 parent sections, Section 3 and 4 have 4 child sections each (Total of 13 sections)
Move a bunch of activities from Section 1 to Section 5
These activities will be moved to a child section in section 3 instead of section 5

2. Can't bulk move activities that are in a child section

Thanks
Simon Taylor
Fri, Feb 8, 2019, 6:14 PM
Hi guys, My Apologies to Clem Smith I directly messaged and then noticed the comments section, Are there any plans to update this for 3.5? My workplace won't allow me to use it unless it is at the same version as the Moodle.
Vicke Denniston
Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 7:05 AM
I am also wondering about 3.5. We have it installed, and it kind of works. It can take 5 minutes or more to delete even a couple of items.
Tim Scholl
Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 5:58 AM
Would it be possible to add activity completion options to this block? As in Select all in section (Even if it was just labels) and have the option to turn it off?
John Provasnik
Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 6:46 AM
Tim - that's a moodle feature as of 3.4: https://docs.moodle.org/36/en/Activity_completion_settings#Changing_activity_completion_settings_in_bulk
Sean Mullins
Tue, Mar 5, 2019, 5:56 AM
Would anyone know why Mass Actions is working on some of our courses and not others? I have checked two courses side by side and they match up in everything that I can see. One course works normally, and the other errors out when you click on the "select all in section" dropdown menu and does not display any of the topics. Additionally, if I click on a few boxes next to activities and then choose an option to, say, indent, it does not complete the action. But in the other course...it all works perfectly. It's driving us nuts!
John Provasnik
Tue, Mar 5, 2019, 6:39 AM
If seen this a bunch of times and am not sure what causes it -- sometimes you can see checkboxes next to each activity in the course and then all of a sudden they stop appearing. At the stop where the stop appearing, I typically edit that Topic, make sure there's no wacky HTML in the description/title of that topics, and then that sometimes helps. You could also check our JavaScript console in the web browser to see if any error appears on that course page where it isn't fully loading.
Frankle Lee 李智高
Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 9:33 AM
any Plans to upgrade to work on 3.7?
Karl Kaemingk
Tue, Aug 6, 2019, 4:19 AM
I would love to use this in Moodle 3.7. Any plans to update?
Karl Kaemingk
Tue, Aug 6, 2019, 4:20 AM
I would love to use this in Moodle 3.7. Any plans to update?
Brian Merritt
Thu, Aug 8, 2019, 4:00 PM
On github, the branch master has not been updated much but moodle_34_master has been updated regularly.
Which Moodle versions are supported please.

Of those, which massaction branch should be used for 3.4? 3.5? 3.6? 3.7?

Many thanks
Debbie Unterseher
Tue, Sep 3, 2019, 12:30 AM
I have gotten this to work in Moodle 3.6. If for some reason a topic doesn't have the select buttons on the side, if you edit the name of the topic, they will magically appear.

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