Moodle plugins directory: Dialogue

Hi all,

I know that this plugin was intended as a two way discussion and has supposedly been replaced, but it /almost/ serves a purpose that no other activity does. It's extremely useful as a learning journal, as long as you give the view all privilege to teachers. It:

* Allows for discreet posts, instead of one huge post as the journal plugin does
* Supports attachments which messaging and the journal plugin does not do
* Allows for posts to be hidden from students, while letting teachers (or which ever role is given view all) which neither the forum or blog module does

So, as a request given that the plugin has been supposedly been replaced by messaging, do you think it would be possible to set some permissions layer in each instance of the activity itself. For example, set a dialogue to be 1:1, 1:m (e.g, one student and all teachers), maybe even go the whole hog and have a public setting.

Regards

Bob Gilmore

Hi Bob,

Unsure if this is exactly what you require but you may be able to somewhat pseudo achieve this by overriding role capabilities per dialogue instance for “one student and all teachers” and using a bulk opener rule.

Override capability “mod/dialogue:open” to allow teacher role and prevent student role.
Override capability “mod/dialogue:replyany” to allow teacher role and prevent student role.
Create bulk opener rule that opens a new dialogue with each enrolled student.

This should allow "teacher to student" dialogue that any teacher can reply to.

Let me know if this works or not?

Regards,

Troy

Hi, will they update to version 3.4 and 3.5 of moodle? When?

Best Regards, Miguel Angel.

Hi Miguel Angel,

It will be in 2 weeks time. I will test the plugin for 3.4 and 3.5. I have started working on a plan for a refactor but other commitments had pushed to the side. This is to take advantage of global search, templates, bootstrap 4 support, clean up recipient picker. I will post to the community once get it in a reasonable state. But for now, I will make it my priority to make sure current code works in 3.4 and 3.5.

Thanks for your patience

Kind regards,

Troy

Hi

Is there any progress on the 3.4 and 3.5 versions?

Hi Kimmo,

3.4 has been released. There is an issue in 3.5 with sorting conversation listing due to Bootstrap 4. All the other functionality works... just sorting is broken. I am currently investigating a fix which involves using traditional HTML select over Bootstrap 3 component which has been used.

Cheers,

Troy

Is it compatible with 3.6?

Hi Dinis,

I haven't tested under 3.6 yet, but it will have the same sorting issues as 3.5.

Troy

Eagerly waiting for the 3.6 version ;)

Hi Troy!

Are there any plans to include any searching functionality in the dialogue? We have users who have 100 students (and therefore 100 or more dialogues) and they're having trouble searching through the dialogues to find particular users, topics, or key words.

Brenda

Hey Brenda,

There is a request to add global search support https://github.com/troywilliams/moodle-mod_dialogue/issues/41. My main priority at the moment is moving front-end type code into templates etc and making sure it works in 3.5, 3.6. As sorting is broken due to older bootstrap CSS.

Troy

Hi Troy

Sorry to reiterate the question, when will it be compatible with Moodle 3.6?

Best Regards, Miguel Angel

Hi
Will we have update for moodle 3.6 an 3.7?, please do not forget this plugin, it is very useful for moodle.

Best regards, Miguel Angel

Update for Moodle 3.6, 3.7? It's possible?

Hello,
I am getting this error, but the message is saved and works fine. Any idea what it can be? using moodle 3.7

Exception - Argument 1 passed to message_send() must be an instance of core\message\message, instance of stdClass given, called in [dirroot]/mod/dialogue/classes/message.php on line 357