Moodle

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.7
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: Messages
• Labels:

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On our university Moodle site, messaging has been disabled sitewide in order to discourage mis-use of it.

However, it is still possible for a teacher to send a message to selected students. In a course, I go either to Participants or to Reports and I check the names of the students I want to send a message to. The selected users (students and, possibliy teacher) do receive the message through their personal e-mail system, not on the Moodle messaging system, since it is disables. This is fine.

Just one small hitch: at the bottom of the message received through their normal e-mail system, there is a link: This email is a copy of a message sent to you at "UniversityMoodleSite" something like this: <a href="http://UniversityMoodleSite/message/index.php?popup=1">

However, if one clicks on that link, one is taken to the Uni. moodle site and the following error message is displayed:

Messaging is disabled on this site

Suggestion: In order to retain the "collective messaging" facility when messaging is disabled site-wide, there should be a mechanism in Moodle to detect this disabling and to not print the This email is a copy of a message sent to you at "MoodleSiteName" link a the bottom of messages sent to e-mail systems.

What do you think?

See forum discussion http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=58468

• Assignee:

  Martin Dougiamas

  Reporter:

  Joseph Rézeau

  Tester:

  Helen Foster

  Participants:

  Joseph Rézeau, Martin Dougiamas

• Created:

  14/Nov/06 6:22 AM

  Updated:

  11/Jan/07 11:15 PM