Activities: Group choice
mod_choicegroup
This module allows students to enrol themselves in a group within a course. The teacher can select which groups students can chose from and the maximum number of students allowed in each group.
Maintained by: 
Nicolas Dunand
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The latest version (2013071000) is available on GitHub (see "Source control URL" link) and should be available here shortly. This version fixes all known bugs.
thanks for this plugin, we're using it extensively and it is extremely useful! The updated version on Github does indeed fix the multiple groups problem, more thanks for that!
An issue we have (but hard to know if students are giving us an accurate report or if they're just trying to get a "seat" in a group that is closed), is that some students' choices seem to disappear. From the reports, all I can see for those students is that they made a choice, then chose again, usually in the same minute or the next - I do however get the same report results from some other students, and they seem to be in a group; SO, just asking whether you know about this. i'll investigate from my side, try to reproduce the issue and let you know...
Just a few questions/suggestions,
- is it possible to see the history of choices of a student? In the reports, I can see the "choose" and "Choose again", but not what the choices were (might be handy in some cases).
- A feature suggestion - it'd be great if it were possible, in the "view X responses" page, to select students and send them a message. Right now, it is only possible to delete choices, we'd love the possibility to select the students who haven't made a choice yet, and send them a reminder; (seems like the completion report indicates the students who have made then removed a choice are considered as having done the activity) Or if students' e-mail addresses were included in the excel export of the file, that'd solve it as well (right now I DL the choices, then export the gradebook, and merge the two files, but that's a little trickier for some colleagues)
TIA and Thx again
I reported the bug here: CONTRIB-4645
Regards
JLD
Thanks a lot for taking the time to make thorough tests and for reporting it so clearly.
CONTRIB-4645 has been dealt with. Moreover, I improved the logging feature, so that the reports actually show into/from which groups the students have enrolled or left.
The latest version is as of now available on GitHub (see "Source control URL" link above) and should land here shortly.
Best regards,
Nicolas
From my (not extensive) testing, everything seems to work fine in 2.6. If will promptly correct any bugs filed here or on GitHub ("Source control URL" link above).
I like the group choice add-on. I think it will improve if you change one English language string:
2.5 [modulename_help,choicegroup] The choice module enables the teacher to ask a question and specify a choice of multiple responses.
to something like:
2.5 [modulename_help,choicegroup]
The Group Choice module allows students to enrol themselves in a group within a course. The teacher can select which groups students can chose from and the maximum number of students allowed in each group.
Which clearly states the use of this module.
Thanks in advance.
I consider this hasn't to be done within the plugin (most plugins don't do this), but rather with the theme. If the breadcrumbs are not usable enough for any reason, you could consider using another theme or adapting the one you're using.