Communication: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 15:35, 23 February 2024

New feature
in Moodle 4.3! If the experimental setting 'Enable communication providers' (enablecommunicationsubsystem) is checked, admins can offer a way for teachers and learners to communicate within the courses.

Currently, there are two communication providers available:

Matrix - This creates a Matrix Element room accessible from a Moodle course and with related user management.
Custom link - This offers a field to add a URL to an existing service (e.g. an existing Matrix room, Telegram or Google Meet).

Course communication

Course settings

Teachers can access course communication options by navigating to a course and selecting More > Communication. To enable communication for your course, ensure your admin has enabled and configured the feature (see 'Site administration settings' below).

The different communication integrations are known as providers. Each provider can have their own settings and can be modified in a course from Course navigation > More > Communication.

After saving the changes, a Communication room will be automatically created when the ad-hoc tasks are run.

Any changes to communication settings will not be immediate. Changes are also handled via ad-hoc tasks and will be determined by how frequently these tasks are run on the site.

Pending status

When your Communication room has been saved, but the ad-hoc task has not yet completed, you will see a notification indicating that your room will be ready soon.

Ready status

When viewing the course page after the ad-hoc task has run, you should see a notification indicating that the Communication room is now ready. To access the newly created room, look for the communication icon towards the bottom of the page (refer to 'Room/service access' section below for more details).

Room/service access

Once all the ad-hoc tasks for communication have finished running, and the room is created, the room will be available from a 'sticky' icon on the relevant course pages. Look for the icon towards the bottom of you screen above the information icon. This icon is available to anyone who has access to the course, regardless of their capability.

Site administration settings

Communication providers are currently an experimental feature and must be enabled by an admin. To enable communication providers:

Navigate to Site administration > Development > Experimental > Experimental settings.
Check the 'Enable communication providers' checkbox (enablecommunicationsubsystem).
Click the 'Save changes' button.
Once the communication providers experimental setting is enabled go to Site administration > Plugins > Communication > Manage communication providers to configure your provider.

Managing communication providers

Admins will be able to access a new section: Site administration > Plugins > Communication > Manage communication providers. From this page, admins can configure the installed communication provider plugins. See the sub-pages for more info, eg Matrix

Capabilities

Configure course communication settings.

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-{{New features}}
+{{Managing a Moodle site}}
-If the [[Experimental setting]] Enable communication providers (enablecommunicationsubsystem) is checked, admins can offer Matrix rooms or custom links to existing rooms for teachers to use with learners in their courses.
+{{New features}}If the [[Experimental settings|experimental setting]] 'Enable communication providers' (enablecommunicationsubsystem) is checked, admins can offer a way for teachers and learners to communicate within the courses.
-'''==VIDEO COMING SOON=='''
+Currently, there are two communication providers available:
+#[[Matrix]] - This creates a Matrix Element room accessible from a Moodle course and with related user management.
+#[[Custom link]] - This offers a field to add a URL to an existing service (e.g. an existing Matrix room, Telegram or Google Meet).
+{{MediaPlayer | url = https://youtu.be/kVQNFqvpbR8 | desc = Course communication}}
 ==Course settings==
-* Teachers can access course communication options from Course navigation > More > Communication.
+Teachers can access course communication options by navigating to a course and selecting ''More > Communication''. To enable communication for your course, ensure your admin has enabled and configured the feature (see 'Site administration settings' below).
-* If the admin has set up a Matrix server for the site, a Matrix room will automatically be created when a new course is created. Teachers can configure the room settings by ensuring Matrix is selected as the provider.
-* If desired they can give the room a name and a topic. If they don't give the room a name then the course name is used instead.
-[[File:MatrixProvider.png|center|700px]]
+The different communication integrations are known as providers. Each provider can have their own settings and can be modified in a course from ''Course navigation > More > Communication.''
+[[File:course_provider.png|alt=Course communication providers|700x700px]]
-*A teacher will automatically have the moderator capability in the Matrix room.
+After saving the changes, a Communication room will be automatically created when the ad-hoc tasks are run.
-If there is no Matrix server on the site, teachers can add a link to a Matrix room of their own or to a room in another messaging service such as Telegram by selecting Custom link as the provider and adding the relevant URL.
+Any changes to communication settings will not be immediate. Changes are also handled via ad-hoc tasks and will be determined by how frequently these tasks are run on the site.
-[[File:CustomLink.png|center|700px]]
+=====Pending status=====
+When your Communication room has been saved, but the ad-hoc task has not yet completed, you will see a notification indicating that your room will be ready soon.
-Once saved the room will be available from a 'sticky'icon, present on all pages at the bottom of the screen above the information icon.
+[[File:Room creation pending.png|alt=Room creation pending|700x700px]]
-[[File:CommIcon.png|center|700px]]
+=====Ready status=====
+When viewing the course page after the ad-hoc task has run, you should see a notification indicating that the Communication room is now ready. To access the newly created room, look for the communication icon towards the bottom of the page (refer to 'Room/service access' section below for more details).
+[[File:Room creation done.png|alt=Room creation complete|border|700x700px]]
+===Room/service access===
+Once all the ad-hoc tasks for communication have finished running, and the room is created, the room will be available from a 'sticky' icon on the relevant course pages. Look for the icon towards the bottom of you screen above the information icon. This icon is available to anyone who has access to the course, regardless of their capability.
+[[File:CommIcon.png|alt=Access your room/service|700x700px]]
 ==Site administration settings==
-* The feature
+Communication providers are currently an experimental feature and must be enabled by an admin. To enable communication providers:
+#Navigate to ''Site administration > Development > Experimental > Experimental settings.''
+#Check the 'Enable communication providers' checkbox (enablecommunicationsubsystem).
+#Click the 'Save changes' button.
+#Once the communication providers experimental setting is enabled go to ''Site administration > Plugins > Communication > Manage communication providers'' to configure your provider.
+===Managing communication providers===
+Admins will be able to access a new section: ''Site administration > Plugins > Communication > Manage communication providers''. From this page, admins can configure the installed communication provider plugins.   See the sub-pages for more info, eg [[Matrix]]
+[[File:Manage_communication_providers.png|alt=Managing communication providers|700x700px]]
+==Capabilities==
+*[[Capabilities/moodle/course:configurecoursecommunication| Configure course communication settings]]. [[es:Comunicación]]
+[[de:Kommunikation]]

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