Moodle plugins directory: Auto Group

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.

Hello, I'm using this plugin in a couple of sites that I maintain. I don't have editing teachers so they don't have access to the settings of the courses neither group settings. I have Moodle 3.6.1 installed which includes a feature of group messaging between users in a course. It can be enabled only in the group settings. Can you add this feature in your auto group plugin in the default settings? Right now I need to do it manually for each teacher that wants this feature enabled to his group.

Thanks for your feedback Teo
! I have created https://github.com/emmarichardson/local_autogroup/issues/15 about it.
I do not have time to work on it for now but I'd be happy to review pull request if someone implements this feature

Are there any settings you must enable to get this plugin to work? I've installed it and adjusted the settings but it doesn't seem to be doing anything. I'm having students enroll in a course to test and it's not creating groups or placing new course enrollments into groups.

Have you added it to the course? And set it up there?

Wow. That was a huge miss. Thank you for your quick reply. Is there any setting at this time that will allow a user to only be apart of 1 group even thought they may have profile fields to be apart of two. To ask a different way, is there a feature that will set 1 profile feature higher than another and put the person in the higher group.

Hello,

Thank you for contributing this plugin; it has proven useful for some of our clients in both Moodle and Totara. One thing we noticed is that when an auto group is edited, the Group by field always defaults to the custom profile field that was created first. The expected behavior is that the Group by setting would default to the profile field that is being used by that group. IF the user is not paying much attention, they could actually change the profile field without realizing. Let me know if you need any additional clarification.

Again, thank you for maintaining this plugin.

Geoff Brewster

Please add it as an issue to the github...

Can anyone point me to the explanation n how to add the plugin to an existing course?

Once the plugin is added and activated at the site level, you will see a setting for autogroup in the course settings under users/groups

Hi Emma, thank you. We are using Totara but need this feature. The totara menu is not showing the plugin. What would be te url the link would point to?

https://"yoursite"/local/autogroup/manage.php?courseid=“yourcourseid"

Hello and thanks in advance for this nice plugin.

I have a question:

Can I config Auto Group to create one group per user enrollment? (group limited to one user only)

Thanks!

Hello, I haven't tried the plugin yet but I have a question - when it seperates the users into groups based on the field, what name(s) does it use? Can it be set up to label the group after the field? For example, if the institution field was London School, could it be set up so that London School is also automatically the group name?

@Kathryn Woodhead Hi!

Yes you are right. If you set "Group by: Department" it uses Department name for naming groups.