Face-to-face module

Face-to-face activities are used to keep track of in-person trainings which require advance booking.

Each activity is offered in one or more identical sessions. These sessions can be given over multiple days.

Reminder messages are sent to users and their managers a few days before the session is scheduled to start. Confirmation messages are sent when users sign-up for a session or cancel.

Walk through (users experience)

The following is the walk through of the implementation of the Face to Face module at Inland Revenue in New Zealand.

Below, when staff visit the PowerPoint course page they are presented with three separate classroom based PowerPoint courses (101, 201 & 301). Each is listed in its own topic on the same Moodle course page. The screen shots below only shows the first topic - PowerPoint 101.

Below, the staff member has clicked on the session offered on 15 August and is then asked to sign up or cancel. Note, in this screen shot the duration time has not been entered - this needs to be manually set as the booking can be for multiple days and varying time slots)

Below, the staff member has clicked on sign up and is asked to confirm their manager's email address. In the screen shot below this information is already known and the staff needs only to confirm that it is correct.

Below, on-screen confirmation of the completed booking.

Below, the course page is now redrawn and in place of the upcoming session dates is the session they have booked.

Below, from here they can see, who else has booked on this session.

Below, and they can cancel their booking.

Below, they also receive an email message confirming the booking. This email message is re-sent with the header "Reminder" a settable number of days in advance of the session.

Creating a new session

Once you have added the Face-to-face activity to a course, you can add new sessions (as a teacher in that course or an administrator) by:

clicking on the Face-to-face activity to get to the page of "upcoming sessions"
clicking on the "add session" link at the bottom of the table

Signing-up for a session

Students can sign-up for one of the sessions by clicking on the Face-to-face link in the course page (which brings them to the "upcoming sessions" page) and then clicking on the signup link next to the session they want.

Integration with the course page

To display the session dates directly on the course page, add the following code to the print_section() function in course/lib.php:

--- /cvs/moodle18/course/lib.php 2007-10-05 20:19:29.000000000 +1300
+++ course/lib.php  2007-11-06 21:14:08.000000000 +1300
@@ -1382,6 +1382,10 @@
                         echo "";
                     }

+                } elseif ($mod->modname == 'facetoface') {
+                    include_once($CFG->dirroot.'/mod/facetoface/lib.php');
+                    echo facetoface_print_coursemodule_info($mod);
+
                 } else { // Normal activity

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Documentation

Face-to-face module

Contents

Walk through (users experience)

Creating a new session

Signing-up for a session

Integration with the course page

See also