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Mass Actions block

Maintained by Matthew Davidson
This block allows instructors to perform actions upon multiple resources or activities, rather than having to perform repeated actions on individual items.
Price option: Free

Supports Moodle 2.8-5.2 See all versions
Latest release: 2 months ago
Installations: 2320
Downloads (last 90 days): 506

Frankenstyle name: block_massaction
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I have made a pull request that should fix 3.9 and retain backward compatibility. You can find the branch here; https://github.com/Syxton/moodle-block_massaction/tree/Moodle-39-version
I was looking for a similar tool, but I could not find any. Does anyone know how? My workaround idea will be to install a separate Moodle with 3.8.3+ and install mass action plugin there.
Unfortunately it doesn't work anymore with Moodle 3.9.1 Are you planning to upgrade the plugin?
It was working fine with Moodle 3.8.3+, but we updated to Moodle 3.9.1 and it stopped working.
This is a long shot, since it appears that the developer of this plugin hasn't logged in since 2018 - but has anyone successfully used this Mass Actions plugin on a m3.8 instance as yet?
... finally, I hope, purging the site cache also appears to (usually) fix the issue of the MA block suddenly becoming non-functional.
Further to my above comment, I now notice if I add another (unwanted) topic then the Mass Actions block seems to start working again. Something about adding/editing topics is throwing this off. Again, posting in case it's useful to the author or others.
Hmmm, this is a fabulous tool (well done) but I'm having some issues in 3.5. I restored a mid-sized course of about 30 topics/weeks with 2-3 activities per week. I added the Mass Action block to try to re-order/organize content. It worked perfectly until I added and renamed a new topic. After that, nothing shows up in the 'Select all In Section' drop-down and obviously from there none of the still selectable items can be manipulated at all. I wonder if this helps provide any clues as to what might be underlying problems?
I have gotten this to work in Moodle 3.6. If for some reason a topic doesn't have the select buttons on the side, if you edit the name of the topic, they will magically appear.
On github, the branch master has not been updated much but moodle_34_master has been updated regularly.
Which Moodle versions are supported please.
Of those, which massaction branch should be used for 3.4? 3.5? 3.6? 3.7?
Many thanks
I would love to use this in Moodle 3.7. Any plans to update?
I would love to use this in Moodle 3.7. Any plans to update?
any Plans to upgrade to work on 3.7?
If seen this a bunch of times and am not sure what causes it -- sometimes you can see checkboxes next to each activity in the course and then all of a sudden they stop appearing. At the stop where the stop appearing, I typically edit that Topic, make sure there's no wacky HTML in the description/title of that topics, and then that sometimes helps. You could also check our JavaScript console in the web browser to see if any error appears on that course page where it isn't fully loading.
Would anyone know why Mass Actions is working on some of our courses and not others? I have checked two courses side by side and they match up in everything that I can see. One course works normally, and the other errors out when you click on the "select all in section" dropdown menu and does not display any of the topics. Additionally, if I click on a few boxes next to activities and then choose an option to, say, indent, it does not complete the action. But in the other course...it all works perfectly. It's driving us nuts!