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Key: MDL-15916
Type: New Feature New Feature
Status: Open Open
Priority: Minor Minor
Assignee: Martin Dougiamas
Reporter: Ralf Hilgenstock
Votes: 7
Watchers: 5
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Moodle

New field in course settings for individual welcome messages to new students

Created: 02/Aug/08 05:26 PM   Updated: 19/Aug/08 08:20 PM
Component/s: Course, Enrolments
Affects Version/s: 1.9.3
Fix Version/s: 2.0

Participants: Chris Collman, Eloy Lafuente (stronk7), Martin Dougiamas and Ralf Hilgenstock
Security Level: None
QA Assignee: Eloy Lafuente (stronk7)
Affected Branches: MOODLE_19_STABLE
Fixed Branches: MOODLE_20_STABLE


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students get a welcome message when they go to a new course. The welcome message is a standard text defined in the lang/en_utf8/moodle.php Students added by teachers as students in courses didn't get such a message and it is not possible to define individual messages for each course.

It will be good to give the teacher the option to create an welcome message individual for the course.

1. new field for individual welcome messages in course settings. If the field is empty the standard text is used.
2. option to send this welcome message to all students that are added to the course by the teacher.



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Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) added a comment - 04/Aug/08 05:23 AM
Assigning this to Martin for his consideration, and addressing it for 2.0 because it requires, for sure, DB changes.

Ciao


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Chris Collman added a comment - 19/Aug/08 08:04 PM
Wonder if we could use the 'news forum' , put a course settings switch to send the opening thread message to all who enrol in the course. That would not be a database change but probably some fancy programming

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Chris Collman added a comment - 19/Aug/08 08:20 PM
Or how about something in the course files? If ./files/data/coursewelcometext.txt (html?) exists when course settings is checked, then use that as welcome message. Want to make it hidden from students in file structure, yet editable by teacher.

Sure some teachers will want to get carried away with HTML and other stuff. So they could create it via a resource link.
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