Development:How groups work in Moodle - Revision history

TimHunt at 15:40, 12 December 2007

2007-12-12T15:40:21Z

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			'''IMPORTANT:''' This page is now obsolete! see [[Development:Groups]] instead.


	'''IMPORTANT:''' This documentation does not refer to current (1.6/1.7) versions of Moodle		'''IMPORTANT:''' This documentation does not refer to current (1.6/1.7) versions of Moodle
	and is here at the moment purely in order to obtain comments. Descriptions of		and is here at the moment purely in order to obtain comments. Descriptions of

Tmarcais: /* An example */

2007-05-03T17:29:09Z

An example

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	* You put Alice and Bob in Group X, Charlie and David in Group Y and Eve in Group Z.		* You put Alice and Bob in Group X, Charlie and David in Group Y and Eve in Group Z.
	* You put Alice and Charlie in 'English students' and Bob and Eve in 'Scottish students' (David is Welsh so we don't put him into a group at all).		* You put Alice and Charlie in 'English students' and Bob and Eve in 'Scottish students' (David is Welsh so we don't put him into a group at all).

			[[Image:Groupexample.jpg]]

	* You now create a wiki and a forum. You assign Grouping 1 to the wiki and Grouping 2 to the forum.		* You now create a wiki and a forum. You assign Grouping 1 to the wiki and Grouping 2 to the forum.
	* The wiki now uses the groups Group X, Group Y and Group Z. The forum now uses the 'English student' and 'Scottish students' groups. As David isn't in any of the groups for Grouping 2, he doesn't even see that the forum exists.		* The wiki now uses the groups Group X, Group Y and Group Z. The forum now uses the 'English student' and 'Scottish students' groups. As David isn't in any of the groups for Grouping 2, he doesn't even see that the forum exists.

Barryjoyce: /* Future plans? (Things I'd like to do or you can do for me!) */

2007-02-08T05:30:04Z

Future plans? (Things I'd like to do or you can do for me!)

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	* Bug fixing I guess :-)		* Bug fixing I guess :-)
	* Global groups - I want it to be possible to set up groupings for course 1 and for these to be visible for all ~~course~~ on the site, but not editable or deletable. I think this code should actually be quite easy to write now and I might even do it before this code is put in, just haven't done it yet.		* Global groups - I want it to be possible to set up groupings for course 1 and for these to be visible for all courses on the site, but not editable or deletable. I think this code should actually be quite easy to write now and I might even do it before this code is put in, just haven't done it yet.
	* A nicer user interface (that doesn't break the back button :-) Ajax separates the back and front end of the code really well, so if anyone has good ideas on this, it should be quite easy for someone else to do without having to know how the internals of the groups code work.		* A nicer user interface (that doesn't break the back button :-) Ajax separates the back and front end of the code really well, so if anyone has good ideas on this, it should be quite easy for someone else to do without having to know how the internals of the groups code work.
	* Integration with roles and permissions		* Integration with roles and permissions

Barryjoyce: /* An example */

2007-02-08T05:26:16Z

An example

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	* You create two groupings - 'Grouping 1' and 'Grouping 2'. You create three groups for Grouping 1 called Group X, Group Y and Group Z and you create two groups in Grouping 2 called 'English student' and 'Scottish students'.		* You create two groupings - 'Grouping 1' and 'Grouping 2'. You create three groups for Grouping 1 called Group X, Group Y and Group Z and you create two groups in Grouping 2 called 'English student' and 'Scottish students'.
	* You put Alice and Bob in Group X, Charlie and David in Group Y and Eve in Group Z.		* You put Alice and Bob in Group X, Charlie and David in Group Y and Eve in Group Z.
	* You put Alice and Charlie in 'English students' and Bob and Eve in 'Scottish students' (David is Welsh so we don't put him a group at all).		* You put Alice and Charlie in 'English students' and Bob and Eve in 'Scottish students' (David is Welsh so we don't put him into a group at all).
	* You now create a wiki and a forum. You assign Grouping 1 to the wiki and Grouping 2 to the forum.		* You now create a wiki and a forum. You assign Grouping 1 to the wiki and Grouping 2 to the forum.
	* The wiki now uses the groups Group X, Group Y and Group Z. The forum now uses the 'English student' and 'Scottish students' groups. As David isn't in any of the groups for Grouping 2, he doesn't even see that the forum exists.		* The wiki now uses the groups Group X, Group Y and Group Z. The forum now uses the 'English student' and 'Scottish students' groups. As David isn't in any of the groups for Grouping 2, he doesn't even see that the forum exists.

Dougiamas: How groups work in Moodle moved to Development:How groups work in Moodle

2006-12-12T09:07:17Z

How groups work in Moodle moved to Development:How groups work in Moodle

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Jonathannewman: /* An example */

2006-11-14T21:23:06Z

An example

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	* You put Alice and Charlie in 'English students' and Bob and Eve in 'Scottish students' (David is Welsh so we don't put him a group at all).		* You put Alice and Charlie in 'English students' and Bob and Eve in 'Scottish students' (David is Welsh so we don't put him a group at all).
	* You now create a wiki and a forum. You assign Grouping 1 to the wiki and Grouping 2 to the forum.		* You now create a wiki and a forum. You assign Grouping 1 to the wiki and Grouping 2 to the forum.
	* The wiki now uses the groups Group X, Group Y and Group Z. The forum now uses the groups ~~X, Y and Z~~. As David isn't in any of the groups for Grouping 2, he doesn't even see that the forum exists.		* The wiki now uses the groups Group X, Group Y and Group Z. The forum now uses the 'English student' and 'Scottish students' groups. As David isn't in any of the groups for Grouping 2, he doesn't even see that the forum exists.

	=== More details ===		=== More details ===

Jvvw at 15:06, 24 October 2006

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	'''IMPORTANT:''' This documentation does not refer to current (~~August 2006~~) versions of Moodle		'''IMPORTANT:''' This documentation does not refer to current (1.6/1.7) versions of Moodle
	and is here at the moment purely in order to obtain comments. Descriptions of		and is here at the moment purely in order to obtain comments. Descriptions of
	how groups work refer to how they hopefully work not how they will work now! This document is also written in the present tense even though it doesn't refer to the current version of Moodle. This is so I don't have to go through and change it all in a month or two's time.		how groups work refer to how they hopefully work not how they will work now! This document is also written in the present tense even though it doesn't refer to the current version of Moodle. This is so I don't have to go through and change it all in a month or two's time.

Rcollman: current=August 2006 :)

2006-10-14T11:13:19Z

current=August 2006 :)

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	'''IMPORTANT:''' This documentation does not refer to current versions of Moodle		'''IMPORTANT:''' This documentation does not refer to current (August 2006) versions of Moodle
	and is here at the moment purely in order to obtain comments. Descriptions of		and is here at the moment purely in order to obtain comments. Descriptions of
	how groups work refer to how they hopefully work not how they will work now! This document is also written in the present tense even though it doesn't refer to the current version of Moodle. This is so I don't have to go through and change it all in a month or two's time.		how groups work refer to how they hopefully work not how they will work now! This document is also written in the present tense even though it doesn't refer to the current version of Moodle. This is so I don't have to go through and change it all in a month or two's time.

Jvvw: /* Future plans? (Things I'd like to do or you can do for me!) */

2006-08-23T20:52:15Z

Future plans? (Things I'd like to do or you can do for me!)

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	* Putting in search_users functionality for group permissions as well as just members of groups.		* Putting in search_users functionality for group permissions as well as just members of groups.
	* Cool ways to set up groups automatically for particular pedagogical reasons - things like minimising overlap with groups in another grouping, creating groups just from the users all in another group and creating groups which merge pairs of groups from another grouping.		* Cool ways to set up groups automatically for particular pedagogical reasons - things like minimising overlap with groups in another grouping, creating groups just from the users all in another group and creating groups which merge pairs of groups from another grouping.
			* Allow settings for groupings which restrict users from being in more than one group, number of people per group, etc.

	[[Category:Groups]]		[[Category:Groups]]

Jvvw at 20:27, 23 August 2006

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 a look (''note: you can't currently do this obviously as the code isn't released
 yet!'').
 Once there is at least one grouping created for a course, when an editor adds an