Moodle

User Management Improvements

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Description

The main working directions established in the GSoC 2007 proposal are:

  • Improve the User features in moodle to allow bulk-operations.
    • Create an interface to do bulk operations on users (e.g. delete users, reset passwords etc) This could potentially use an AJAX implementation for multiple filtering/selection of required students for bulk operations.
    • Overhall the CSV upload features to allow more flexibility (more options, features to auto-generate more fields such as usernames)
  • Enrolment
    • Specify time of manual enrollments (MDL-8877)
  • Notes
    • Allow teachers to put notes for each student in every course, much requested feature

Issue Links

This issue has been marked as being related by:
MDL-11160 Cron exhausts memory on "Removing expired enrolments ..." Minor Closed
MDL-3982 Searching by username Minor Closed

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Lorenzo Nicora added a comment -

Interface for bulk operations on users should also allow enrolling (and unenrolling) to courses (or assigning role in a context)

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Lorenzo Nicora added a comment - Interface for bulk operations on users should also allow enrolling (and unenrolling) to courses (or assigning role in a context)
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Chris Fryer added a comment -

Following Lorenzo's suggestion, I've put together an interface for assigning roles to a single user in multiple contexts. It's hacked together from /admin/user.php and /admin/roles/assign.php

It isn't anything like as ambitious as the project you've outlined, and may in fact be superseded by the full release of Moodle 1.9. At the very least, the functions in userassignroleslib.php might prove useful. They get contexts in which the user is assigned a given role, and the contexts in which the user is not. Perhaps they should really go into /lib/datalib.php

I haven't put any of the new messages into a language pack, and don't know if I need to make special allowances for MNET users. My concerns should be fairly obvious in the comments.

I hope it's useful to you. If not, maybe it could at least go into an upcoming 1.8.x release.

Regards,

Chris

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Chris Fryer added a comment - Following Lorenzo's suggestion, I've put together an interface for assigning roles to a single user in multiple contexts. It's hacked together from /admin/user.php and /admin/roles/assign.php It isn't anything like as ambitious as the project you've outlined, and may in fact be superseded by the full release of Moodle 1.9. At the very least, the functions in userassignroleslib.php might prove useful. They get contexts in which the user is assigned a given role, and the contexts in which the user is not. Perhaps they should really go into /lib/datalib.php I haven't put any of the new messages into a language pack, and don't know if I need to make special allowances for MNET users. My concerns should be fairly obvious in the comments. I hope it's useful to you. If not, maybe it could at least go into an upcoming 1.8.x release. Regards, Chris
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Koen Roggemans added a comment -

I hope I'm posting in the right bug here ...

I noticed that it is possible to include default values for uploading users from a text file - great idea.
But I don't see the point in having an account name in this form. I suggest to take it out. Also the help file needs replacing (not updating) since the page contains new functionality

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Koen Roggemans added a comment - I hope I'm posting in the right bug here ... I noticed that it is possible to include default values for uploading users from a text file - great idea. But I don't see the point in having an account name in this form. I suggest to take it out. Also the help file needs replacing (not updating) since the page contains new functionality
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Andrei Bautu added a comment -

> I don't see the point in having an account name in this form.

Values of fields in "Default values" section are proccesed as templates where some special character sequences are replaced with other values (eg. %f is replaced by the first name of the user). This way, if you want so, your CSV file can contain only the first and last names of users, and all other fields, including the username, will be generated based on them.
The help file has been updated to present this features, while the other (basic) features information are still there.

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Andrei Bautu added a comment - > I don't see the point in having an account name in this form. Values of fields in "Default values" section are proccesed as templates where some special character sequences are replaced with other values (eg. %f is replaced by the first name of the user). This way, if you want so, your CSV file can contain only the first and last names of users, and all other fields, including the username, will be generated based on them. The help file has been updated to present this features, while the other (basic) features information are still there.
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Koen Roggemans added a comment -

Thanks, see it now.
I would have preferred that the helpfile was replaced one with another file name (uploadusers2.html).
This way the (rather important) changes will never make it to the translated help files.

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Koen Roggemans added a comment - Thanks, see it now. I would have preferred that the helpfile was replaced one with another file name (uploadusers2.html). This way the (rather important) changes will never make it to the translated help files.
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Yu Zhang added a comment -

Hi Koen,

Sorry I let this one slip. Reverted uploadusers.html and added uploadusers2.html.

Cheers,

Yu

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Yu Zhang added a comment - Hi Koen, Sorry I let this one slip. Reverted uploadusers.html and added uploadusers2.html. Cheers, Yu
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Mitsuhiro Yoshida added a comment -

Hi Yu,

The contents of help file en_utf8\help\filters\date.html seems to be duplicated.
Could you please check the help file?

Mits

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Mitsuhiro Yoshida added a comment - Hi Yu, The contents of help file en_utf8\help\filters\date.html seems to be duplicated. Could you please check the help file? Mits
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Yu Zhang added a comment -

Hi Mits, thanks, removed now =)

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Yu Zhang added a comment - Hi Mits, thanks, removed now =)
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Yu Zhang added a comment -

Thanks Andrei for the good work, all code in 1.9, closing now. Please file separate bugs (if any).

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Yu Zhang added a comment - Thanks Andrei for the good work, all code in 1.9, closing now. Please file separate bugs (if any).

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