Moodle plugins directory: Auto Group

General plugins (Local): Auto Group

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.

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Release 2.4

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A local plugin which 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.

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Emma Richardson
Fri, 9 Feb 2018, 3:52 AM
Thanks for the feedback - adjusted description above.
Vladimir Miranovic
Fri, 9 Feb 2018, 4:06 AM
Thank you, for the chance to contribute even a little to this great plugin.
Emma Richardson
Fri, 9 Feb 2018, 4:10 AM
Always good to know I am not the only one using it. When I funded this originally it was out of need in my job working with multiple K12 districts. I can't even imagine how many hours it has saved me!
Arnaud Trouvé
Fri, 16 Feb 2018, 6:20 AM
Thanks for your feedback Vladimir.
I agree that « custom profile field » is more understandable for users so I created https://github.com/emmarichardson/local_autogroup/issues/2 where i explain the problem.
I’ll try to work on it when I’ll have free time.
Emma Richardson
Thu, 22 Feb 2018, 7:09 PM
What version of Moodle? Can you screenshot your settings - both admin and course level?
Erin Melvin
Fri, 16 Mar 2018, 3:40 AM
Hi Mark and Emma,

This is a great plugin! I'm currently using it in Totara to auto create groups in courses members of audiences who are enrolled in programs and not directly to courses, which is a common request. Do you have plans to update the plugin for multiple job assignments in Totara (Totara 9 and onwards)? It would be really great to be able to use this with positions!

Thanks,
Erin
Emma Richardson
Fri, 16 Mar 2018, 4:46 AM
Sorry, don't use Totara. Will try and keep it upgraded for new Moodle releases though.
Robert Schrenk
Sat, 31 Mar 2018, 5:07 AM
Hey there, this is a totally useful plugin! What be nice if one could specify a grouping where the created groups should reside!
John Anderson
Tue, 3 Jul 2018, 2:48 AM
Hi - I'm just looking to add all learners automatically to a group I choose. I don't really use the profile fields. Could this plugin help do that ?
Rodrigo Brandão
Fri, 6 Jul 2018, 2:06 AM
Amazing plugin! This saved a project in my department ... THANK!
Sergio R. B. Junior
Wed, 22 Aug 2018, 3:19 AM
I'm trying to use this plugin with custom profile field but doens't work in Moodle 3.5+ (Build: 20180614). If i change for group by institution or other optional field it works. Anyone experiencing the same problem?
Arnaud Trouvé
Wed, 22 Aug 2018, 2:39 PM
Just tested on Moodle 3.5.1+ (Build: 20180810) it works correctly.
Which custom profile field type (Checkox/Dropdown/Text...) do you use ?
Could you create an issue in the bugtracker (https://github.com/emmarichardson/local_autogroup/issues) please ?
Georg Wiesinger
Mon, 8 Oct 2018, 3:05 AM
Good evening,
I came across this plugin a couple of minutes ago and it's indeed awesome! Thanks for sharing such wonderful things!

Kind regards,
George
Ben Haensel
Fri, 30 Nov 2018, 2:55 AM
I noticed that if I have an API event or if I manually change a custom user profile field in the UI, that will update the groups assigned using the auto group plugin. However, if I make a DB change or have a MySQL recurring event that runs a script to make a DB change, the groups are not updated.

Would you consider setting up a scheduled task to run to check if there were DB changes to the user profile fields that are linked to the auto groups?

-Ben Haensel, BlueSky Online School, MN
Arnaud Trouvé
Fri, 30 Nov 2018, 5:34 PM
Hi, could you create an issue in the bugtracker to discuss about it please? At first sight I'm against such feature which will encourage developer's bad practices by not using API. If you have a script which add or remove users in group directly in DB you should trigger the corresponding event.

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