Quiz submission email notification

When a student clicks 'Submit all and finish' to end a quiz attempt, you can configure Moodle to send email notifications. There are two types of notification: a confirmation to the student that their attempt has finished successfully, and a notification to the teacher(s) that someone has submitted an attempt. Emails are never sent for preview attempts.

How to turn on confirmation emails

To turn on confirmation emails for all students on all quizzes, edit the Student role and give it the capability mod/quiz:emailconfirmsubmission.

To turn on email confirmation for all students on one particular quiz, use the Roles override feature to give the Student role the mod/quiz:emailconfirmsubmission capability on that quiz. Similarly, you can override the role at the course level to turn on notification for all quizzes in that course.

How to turn on notification emails for teachers

To turn on confirmation emails for all teachers on all quizzes, edit the Teacher role and give it the capability mod/quiz:emailnotifysubmission.

To turn on email confirmation for all Teacher on one particular quiz, use the Roles override feature to give the Teacher role the mod/quiz:emailnotifysubmissionon capability on that quiz. Similarly, you can override the role at the course level to turn on notification for all quizzes in that course.

Note that if the quiz is set to separate groups, then teachers will only get a notification if either

• the student is in the same group as the teacher, or
• the teacher has moodle/site:accessallgroups.

How to configure the text of the emails

The subject and body of the emails are defined in the quiz.php language file. The strings are 'emailconfirmsubject', 'emailconfirmbody', 'emailnotifysubject' and 'emailnotifybody'. The $a string passed in when these language strings are loaded contains all the following information:

$a->coursename

The name of the course

$a->courseshortname

The shortname of the course

$a->quizname

The name of the quiz

$a->quizreporturl

The URL of the results overview for this quiz (.../mod/quiz/report.php?q=quizid)

$a->quizreportlink

The URL of the results overview URL and quiz name as a HTML link

$a->quizreviewurl

The URL of the review page for this attempt (.../mod/quiz/review.php?attempt=attemptid)

$a->quizreviewlink

The attempt review URL and quiz name as a HTML link

$a->quizurl

The URL of the main page of the quiz (.../mod/quiz/view.php?q=quizid)

$a->quizlink

The URL of the quiz and the quiz name as a HTML link

$a->attemptsubmissiontime

The time the attempt was submitted, formatted using userdate().

$a->timetaken

How long the quiz attempt lasted.

$a->studentname

The name of the person who submitted the quiz.

$a->studentidnumber

The idnumber of the person who submitted the quiz.

$a->studentusername

The username of the person who submitted the quiz.

$a->username

The name of the user the email is being sent to.

$a->useridnumber

The idnumber of the person who submitted the quiz.

$a->userusername

The username of the user the email is being sent to.