Moodle

RSS Feeds of REcent Activity and Latest News (or a combined feed for both)

Details

  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 1.9, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Blocks, General, Other, RSS, Unknown
  • Labels:
    None
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_19_STABLE

Description

It would be very handy if students could get latest news forum updates, course updates, recent activity, quiz result, almost any course update (whatever can be reported on) via an RSS feed.

I suppose that the feed URL would have to include the course ID, user ID (or other unique identifier) of a valid and enrolled user and also to check that the course was available and so on.

Course tutors could choose which elements of the course updates can be shown within the feed (e.g. choose to exclude quiz results, for example, even if anonymous) but may default to show everything.

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Stacey Walker added a comment -

Hi,

Attached is a patch that we developed for Moodle 1.9 that enables basic RSS feeds from the recent activity block based on the blogs current rss functionality.

Teachers and administrators can enable the RSS feed per block and then a url is developed using the course, userid and block instance information for the xml file.

See also our - gitweb http://git.catalyst.net.nz/gitweb?p=moodle-r2.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/mdl19-york-rssfeed - for this.

Thanks,
Stacey

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Stacey Walker added a comment - Hi, Attached is a patch that we developed for Moodle 1.9 that enables basic RSS feeds from the recent activity block based on the blogs current rss functionality. Teachers and administrators can enable the RSS feed per block and then a url is developed using the course, userid and block instance information for the xml file. See also our - gitweb http://git.catalyst.net.nz/gitweb?p=moodle-r2.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/mdl19-york-rssfeed - for this. Thanks, Stacey

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