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| {{Work in progress|forumurl=https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=261660}} | | {{Work in progress|forumurl=https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=XXX}} |
| The Event Monitor report will allow users to select events and receive notifications in real time* when the chosen event happens.
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| This report will be built on top of the new [[Event 2]] infrastructure.
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| == How it works ==
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| * The user or site admin creates a specific set of “rules” that can be subscribed to.
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| * Each rule defines an event and frequency parameters.
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| * The users select the rules they are interested in and then subscribe to it at course level for a specific module or all modules.
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| * Whenever the event occurs in the system , in the frequency specified in the rule, a message is sent out to all the subscribers.
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| * Since we are using Moodle messaging system to send out these notifications, it can be delivered in any format supported by Moodle (Mobile notification, popup, email etc)
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| * There would be some default rules that would be shipped with the report, that users can subscribe to straight away.
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| === User interface mock-ups ===
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| ==== Subscribe to a rule ====
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| This is the main page of the Event Monitor report where users can see a list of rules and their current subscriptions. This also lets users to subscribe to new rules or delete their current subscriptions.
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| [[File:subscriptions.png]]
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| ==== Manage rules ====
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| This page lets you manage the rules if you have appropriate permissions (create/edit/delete/copy)
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| This is roughly how the page will look like:-
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| [[File:listrules.png]]
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| ==== Add/Edit a rule ====
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| This is the form where users can create a new rule, customise the filters (frequency and time) and personalise the notification message.
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| [[File:addrule.png]]
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| === A specific example ===
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| One scenario may be that you wish to be notified when discussions are becoming active in the forums.
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| The figure above shows the creation of a new rule called 'My Student Discussions', which is set to monitor 'Post Created event' on 'Forum Module'.
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| In this case, any user subscribed to this rule will receive notifications whenever '30 posts are created in 60 minutes' on the forum they are subscribed to.
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| The notification will contain the customised message as configured in the rule.
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| == Benefits ==
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| * Real time monitoring of events happening in Moodle.
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| * Admin can be notified when there is heavy activity on the site or they can monitor specific actions that interests them (ex:- course delete).
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| * A notification can be sent straight to a user's mobile if there is a situation that needs immediate attention.
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| * The report will be designed to trigger an event when a given subscription criteria are met. This will allow developers to build really powerful scripts on top of the report. For example, a block displaying “Hot forums”, or something more complex like load balancing when there is lot of activity in the forums or quiz.
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| == Usage scenarios ==
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| * Send notification when more than X posts in any forum are made in a given course in Y minutes.
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| * Send notification when new chapters are created in a book.
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| * Send notification (to admin) when a course is deleted.
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| * Send notification (to students) that a particular activity has been updated.
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| * Send notification (to admin) when potential security risk might happen due to change in system setting.
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| == Future work == | | == Future work == |
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| * Allow events to be subscribed by only certain roles
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| * Forced subscriptions for students for certain rules
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| * An activity stream for messages
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| * An facebook style notification system for notifying logged in users
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| == See also == | | == See also == |
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| * [[Event 2]] | | * XXX |
| * Moodlerooms developed a "[http://kb.moodlerooms.com/article/81/administrator Personalized Learning Designer]" that has some of these features (mostly for individual students only).
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| * Real time means “as soon as possible” - this depends on the cron configuration of the site. (For further information refer to [[https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Task_API#Adhoc_task_usage Adhoc tasks]])
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