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==Administration Alert Block== | ==Administration Alert Block== | ||
The Administration Alert block provides an alert about particular areas of concern for a Moodle administrator. The block can be restricted to an administration | The Administration Alert block provides an alert about particular areas of concern for a Moodle administrator. The block can be restricted to an administration course and will show a list of alerts including: duplicated course ID numbers; courses without a teacher; courses with many backup files; inactive courses; and inactive users. This block does not require the creation of additional tables in the Moodle database. | ||
If placed in a course, this block shows for the teacher the inactive users in the course and in writting messages in foruns, if the block is restricted to one administration course. | |||
If the block is not restricted to a course, the block in any course shows also all alerts, but it can local configured to show only a subset of alerts from those allowed in global configuration. | |||
In any case, this block is only seen by users that have editing capability in the place the block is in. | |||
===Installation=== | ===Installation=== | ||
*Download the last version from moodle.org: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=1540 | |||
*Copy the admin_alert folder into the \blocks folder of your Moodle site | *Copy the admin_alert folder into the \blocks folder of your Moodle site | ||
*Login in to Moodle as an administrator and go to the \admin page (Notifications) to install the block | *Login in to Moodle as an administrator and go to the \admin page (Notifications) to install the block | ||
*When prompted, set the default settings for the block | *When prompted, set the default settings for the block | ||
*Add the Administration Alert block to the | *Add the Administration Alert block to the front page or another course of your choice | ||
===Languages=== | ===Languages=== | ||
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Thanks to the generosity of translators, the Administration Alert Block is available in: | Thanks to the generosity of translators, the Administration Alert Block is available in: | ||
*English | *English | ||
*Portuguese | *[[:pt:Bloco Alertas de Administração|Portuguese]] | ||
*German | |||
Other translations are welcome. If you would like to provide a translation of this block, please create an issue in the tracker with the language file attached to the issue. | Other translations are welcome. If you would like to provide a translation of this block, please create an issue in the tracker with the language file attached to the issue. | ||
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===To Do List=== | ===To Do List=== | ||
Feature requests and bug reports can be filed in the Moodle Tracker (http://tracker.moodle.org). Please use the | Feature requests and bug reports can be filed in the Moodle Tracker (http://tracker.moodle.org). Please use the '''Non-core contributed modules''' project and select '''Components''' and the '''Block: Admin_alert''' component. Your suggestions and feedback in improving this block are greatly appreciated. | ||
===Contributor/Maintainer=== | ===Contributor/Maintainer=== | ||
Latest revision as of 10:21, 20 October 2008
Administration Alert Block
The Administration Alert block provides an alert about particular areas of concern for a Moodle administrator. The block can be restricted to an administration course and will show a list of alerts including: duplicated course ID numbers; courses without a teacher; courses with many backup files; inactive courses; and inactive users. This block does not require the creation of additional tables in the Moodle database.
If placed in a course, this block shows for the teacher the inactive users in the course and in writting messages in foruns, if the block is restricted to one administration course.
If the block is not restricted to a course, the block in any course shows also all alerts, but it can local configured to show only a subset of alerts from those allowed in global configuration.
In any case, this block is only seen by users that have editing capability in the place the block is in.
Installation
- Download the last version from moodle.org: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=1540
- Copy the admin_alert folder into the \blocks folder of your Moodle site
- Login in to Moodle as an administrator and go to the \admin page (Notifications) to install the block
- When prompted, set the default settings for the block
- Add the Administration Alert block to the front page or another course of your choice
Languages
Thanks to the generosity of translators, the Administration Alert Block is available in:
- English
- Portuguese
- German
Other translations are welcome. If you would like to provide a translation of this block, please create an issue in the tracker with the language file attached to the issue.
To Do List
Feature requests and bug reports can be filed in the Moodle Tracker (http://tracker.moodle.org). Please use the Non-core contributed modules project and select Components and the Block: Admin_alert component. Your suggestions and feedback in improving this block are greatly appreciated.
Contributor/Maintainer
The Administration Alert Block was contributed and is maintained by José Coelho.
