Faces

Blocks ::: block_faces
Maintained by Kyle Goslin, Daniel McSweeneyDaniel Mc Sweeney
Faces is a simple block that allows you to print or view a collection of user profile pictures for your moodle course. Its very useful for those of us who need to put a name to a face. Faces can be viewed/printed for the entire class or by group.
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It can be difficult to put a name to so many faces! Faces is a simple Moodle block that allows teachers to print out a collection of names and profile photos of those students who attend their classes. 

 

Faces can print a collection of profile photos in grid format for the entire class or by group. It can be useful for use in the classroom or meetings when its useful to 'put a name to a face'

Its a quick and easy block to use and install. All feedback welcome

Development of this block is currently ongoing, so please feel free to make any suggestions.

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Kyle Goslin (Lead maintainer)
Daniel McSweeney
Daniel Mc Sweeney
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  • Alex Egea Guirado
    Tue, 24 Feb 2015, 6:15 PM
    Very good block.
    You can add the option to export to excel?
    thanks a lot
  • Oam
    Wed, 25 Feb 2015, 1:32 AM
    Hi ! Thanks for this.

    I added an issue : https://github.com/Kylegoslin/moodle-block_faces/issues/1

    Why don't you merge this plugin with Roster ? (and with attendance plugin by the way ? ^^)

    https://moodle.org/plugins/view/report_roster
    https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_attendance
    https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_autoattendmod
  • Alex Egea Guirado
    Wed, 25 Feb 2015, 3:45 PM
    Helo
    I tried all. report_roster,mod_attendance and autoattendmod but when you export to excel the images are not.
    wink
  • Alexandro Fonsêca
    Sat, 23 Jan 2016, 7:39 PM
    Erro version Moodle 3.0
    Validating block_faces ... Erro
    [Error] Plugin does not declare its component name [null] Ajuda com Plugin does not declare its component name
    Installation aborted due to validation failure
  • Michael Zwahlen
    Fri, 29 Jan 2016, 3:08 AM
    Hi
    Please make it Moodle 3.0 ready. After that it will be very helpful.
    What I'm looking for is an option to learn my student names just like with flashcards: Profile-Picture as question - lastname as answer. And not allways beginning with name a-z but shuffeld. Any hint how to do that? In Moodle? With export via Excel to a flashcard-App
  • ebelio martinez
    Tue, 16 Feb 2016, 1:18 PM
    Hola, ¿cómo puedo corregir este error?
    Erro version Moodle 3.0
    Validating block_faces ... Erro
    [Error] Plugin does not declare its component name [null]

    Gracias al quien me pueda ayudar. El bloque se ve muy interesante.
  • Kris KIm
    Sat, 9 Apr 2016, 5:53 AM
    in the archive file version add a line $plugin->component = 'block_faces';
  • Lee Keller
    Thu, 14 Apr 2016, 10:20 PM
    Installing through the Moodle interface, I first get "Unable to detect plugin type...". I selected manually to do "Block" as the type. At that point I get the following error.

    Debugging output enabled
    ZIP /data/web/ecampus/data/temp/tool_installaddon/4e0288a6-9118-4805-aee2-f51c8f194fa1/plugin.zip
    Validating block_faces ... Error
    [OK] Name of the plugin to be installed [faces] Help with Name of the plugin to be installed
    [OK] Plugin version [2015052915]
    [OK] Required Moodle version [2011070110.00]
    [Error] Plugin does not declare its component name [null] Help with Plugin does not declare its component name
    Installation aborted due to validation failure
  • Bjørn Rosell
    Mon, 13 Feb 2017, 8:21 PM
    Are there any plans for a M3.2 version?
    Has anybody tested the current version (1.6) against Moodle 3.2?
  • Sheldon Kelly
    Fri, 10 Mar 2017, 6:40 PM
    I second the need for a M3.2 version.
  • Bert van der Hooft
    Tue, 20 Mar 2018, 9:23 PM
    Kyle, Daniel,

    Your plugin is highly appreciated. Any change for a 3.4 edition?

    Bert
  • Ricardo Caiado
    Fri, 29 June 2018, 11:15 PM
    Hi,

    Any updates to 3.5?

    Ricardo
  • Bert van der Hooft
    Tue, 13 Nov 2018, 9:45 PM
    Works nice and smoothly in our 3.5. Compliments for Kyle for quick response on an issue!
  • Ben Gottfried
    Mon, 4 Feb 2019, 11:51 PM
    This looks like a useful plugin. We've used Roster but our faculty find it cumbersome. We had a homegrown "name quiz" solution that presented student photos in random order minus names for faculty quiz themselves. They loved this method of learning student names for their face-to-face courses, but we've moved away from this in favor of Roster. Any chance a change to your plugin along these lines is in the works? Thanks!
  • willem stempvoort
    Wed, 16 Feb 2022, 8:00 PM
    Hi
    The block is very convenient to make a "who is who" for groups on a course page. Thank you for making it!

    We found a possible privacy issue Even when the block is not installed/active on a specific course page a member of that page can make a faces page when he copies the page id (XXX) to the faces URL

    yoursite/course/view.php?id=XXX

    To make an overview of all the members of that page (even with separate groups) you can visit this url:

    yoursite/blocks/faces/showfaces/show.php?cid=XXX

    There is no difference whether the block is installed or not on page XXX. The use of the block anywhere on the site makes this possible.
    Is there a way to prevent or fix this?

    It would be more privacy friendly
    if the block only showed faces on the pages it is installed
    if the block only showed faces of the groups to which the user belongs
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