Event reminders

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.

Documentation