Moodle Plugins Directory: Scheduler

We have installed Scheduler 2.5 on Moodle 2.5.1. While email from a Forums go out as expected, no messages are being sent out when reservations are made or cancelled. Since mail on the site seems to be working normally, it looks like there is something wrong with the code. Can anyone shed some light on this? As anyone experienced the same problem?

@Thomas Robb: The e-mail notifications work for me in 2.5. However, they need to be enabled on a per-activity basis. In the Scheduler settings, have you set the field "Notifications" to "Yes"?

We use your scheduler very much at the University of London, but we noticed that the number of slots available was reduced from 24 (in Moodle 1.9) to 9 (in Moodle 2.n). We've made many attempts to work with the limit of 9, like using multiple schedulers and setting the limit to infinity. Unfortunately, for our use, these solutions create as many problems as they solve. Could the max number of slots be returned to 24 again? Since we use the scheduler a lot, it would really help us out.

One challenge we're facing is that we're in the process of upgrading to Moodle 2.4. We use an external 'Moodle Service Provider' to host Moodle for us, which is the University of London Computing Centre, so I also hope the change I'm hoping for can apply to Moodle 2.4. Thanks for any help you can provide.

@Steven Malikowski
For the number of slots available, there's now a global configuration setting (scheduler_maxstudentsperslot). The default is 9 but you can increase this if you wish. This is available in the MOODLE_23_STABLE and MOODLE_25_STABLE branches. For Moodle 2.4, you would use the MOODLE_23_STABLE branch.

Thanks very much. I'll pass that on to our 'Moodle Service Provider'. This small change will make a big difference for us.

As a teacher, tested scheduler in 2.6. Whenever I click the scheduler added to my course page, I get a blank page . I'm able to see the slots scheduled and tabs for adding and deleting slots when my course page is on editing mode! No issues in 2.5.

@Dr. Indira Koneru
Try the latest version from github, where this problem has been fixed.

in version 2.5 found an error in the execution of cron
I think it is connected with your plugin

"Processing customized cron scripts ...Processing cron function for local_reminders...
... started 12:49:21. Current memory use 77.8Мбайт.
[Local Reminder] Time window: Пятница, 17 Январь 2014, 06:40 to Понедельник, 20 Январь 2014, 14:49
[Local Reminder] Found 54 upcoming events. Continuing...
!!! Error reading from the database !!!"

sorry for my english

The plugin "local_reminders" is not mine; this page is for mod_scheduler. Instead please see
https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=local_reminders

Hi Nenning,

Thanks for making this very useful plugin available to the Moodle community.

Please note that I created CONTRIB-4845 tracker issue to request that an issue where the use of print_continue() in Scheduler is causing a deprecation warning to appear on the Statistics pages when debugging is turned on.

According to the message, $OUTPUT->continue_button() should be used instead.

Best regards,

Michael Milette

Just noticed... sorry for the typo in your name above Henning.

Hi Henning,
Thanks for the great plugin. We're using it quite a lot.
However - a potential feature request - is there any way to book a timeslot with a room rather than a teacher? This is much requested at the moment and I think that this plugin works and looks a lot better than certain other specific room booking plugins, (It would also mean teachers don't need to learn another plugin).

Hopefully this is an easy feature to implement (or an easy workaround that someone is aware of)?

Many thanks

Hi Jona,
no, this isn't a current feature (and I'm not currently planning to add it on the short term). However, you may want to comment here:
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-4690
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-4199

Hi Henning:

I installed the module without any problem in moodle 2.52. I entered the information required to use the module in one of my courses but when I pulsed the button Save and Display, got the following error message
[an error occurred while processing this directive]. What are the possible causes and what should I do to solve it?

Thanks, Luis

Hi Luis,
sorry, I haven't ever seen this error message before. It might have to do with the file permissions in your Scheduler installation. If that doesn't help, would you mind opening a ticket on the Moodle Tracker and add some more details - exact version of Scheduler (from mod/scheduler/version.php), PHP version that you use, operating system and version?