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Revision as of 02:49, 2 August 2012
Introduction
Reminders plugin is about creating a set of reminders for Moodle calendar events and sending them automatically to relevant users on timely manner via Moodle message interface. This is a local plugin.
Features
- Reminders can be customized by message content or delivering time/methods according to the event types.
- Plugin is responsible to send reminders for calendar events.
- Automatic sending of reminders.
Installation
- 1. Fetch the plug-in from following location.
- Goto Reminders and download the latest version from the repository.
- 2. Go to the 'local' directory inside Moodle root directory.
- 3. Now extract the downloaded zip file inside to this folder. After it is extracted, all files and folders must compliance with given structure as shown in developer documentation.
- 4. Log into the Moodle site as the admin user. Usually the new plug-in must be identified and notified you when logged-in. If not then go to Site Administration -> Notifications to detect and automatically install the local plug-in.
- 5. Now you can change the plug-in specific settings via Site Administration -> Plugins -> Local Plugins -> Reminders.
Screenshots
Sample e-mail reminder
Administrator settings page
Tips and tricks
- If you want to change the cron frequency of reminders plugin, open version.php file in the reminders directory and change the value corresponding to $plugin->cron. That value must be in seconds and it is the interval between two cron cycles.
Credits
- Mentors: Michael de Raadt and Rossiani Wijaya
- Special thanks goes to Luiggi Sansonetti who translated the plugin into French language.
See also
- Download location from plugin repository, Local Reminders
- CONTRIB-3647 Automating Email reminders for calendar events.
- Plugin development Repository
- Forum post Local Plugin - Email Reminders for Calendar Events
- RSS Feed from Personal Blog, RSS Feed.