Dialogue 2.0 specification

This page tracks and summarises the progress of rewrite of the Dialogue module for Moodle 2.0. Moodle 2.0

Dialogue 2.0 specification
Status	Draft

Introduction

The Dialogue module allows students or teachers to start two-way dialogues with another person. They are course activities that can be useful when the teacher wants a place to give private feedback to a student on their online activity. For example, if a student is participating in a language forum and made a grammatical error that the teacher wants to point out without embarrassing the student, a dialogue is the perfect place. A dialogue activity would also be an excellent way for counsellors within an institution to interact with students - all activities are logged and email is available but not necessarily required.

Implementation plan

Database structures

dialogue

Field	Type	Default	Description

Capabilities and Permissions

Capability	Description	Role permissions	Notes
mod/dialogue:open	TO-DO	TO-DO
mod/dialogue:receive	TO-DO	TO-DO
mod/dialogue:reply	TO-DO	TO-DO
mod/dialogue:deleteown	TO-DO	TO-DO
mod/dialogue:openmultiple	TO-DO	TO-DO	can open same(template) dialogue with multiple recipients
mod/dialogue:viewany	TO-DO	TO-DO
mod/dialogue:replyany	TO-DO	TO-DO
mod/dialogue:closeany	TO-DO	TO-DO
mod/dialogue:deleteany	TO-DO	TO-DO

Event API

user_enrolled()

Can be used for any automated opening of dialogues for new course participants when all participants were selected in a multi-open dialogue.

groups_member_added()

Can be used for any automated opening of dialogues for new group members when group(s) were elected in a multi-open dialogue.

user_unenrolled()

Cleanup function, delete any dialogues that user is a recipient.