Moodle

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

Details

  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 1.9.3
  • Fix Version/s: 2.0
  • Component/s: Course, Enrolments
  • Labels:
    None
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_19_STABLE
  • Fixed Branches:
    MOODLE_20_STABLE

Description

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 -

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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Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) added a comment - 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 -

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 - 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 -

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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Chris Collman added a comment - 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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Allison Soo added a comment -

some teachers want to show and display their own welcoming message, while others would like to disable this. This feature will certainly help in addressing this common request. Will this feature be available in moodle 2 release ?

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Allison Soo added a comment - some teachers want to show and display their own welcoming message, while others would like to disable this. This feature will certainly help in addressing this common request. Will this feature be available in moodle 2 release ?
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Petr Škoda (skodak) added a comment -

I have finished the implementation in new enrol/self plugin, the welcome message sending is controlled from the enrol instance setting form. Thank you for the report.
Please test.

Petr Skoda

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Petr Škoda (skodak) added a comment - I have finished the implementation in new enrol/self plugin, the welcome message sending is controlled from the enrol instance setting form. Thank you for the report. Please test. Petr Skoda

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