Cohort external database

Maintained by Dan Marsden, Catalyst IT

This plugin creates site-level cohorts using a connection to an external database. (similar to enrol_database plugin but instead of creating enrolments it creates site-level cohorts.)

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Supports Moodle 3.1-4.3 See all versions

Latest release: 1 year ago

Installations: 133

Downloads (last 90 days): 34

Frankenstyle name: tool_cohortdatabase

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Dan Marsden

3 April 2022

@Otaku - yes. Probably best that you try it out and see if it meets your needs.

Otaku Dude

1 April 2022

Thank you @Dan, one last question if I may, if we can sort out a db connection, if a student is listed twice with 2 or more different cohort requirements, will the plugin create all cohorts?

Dan Marsden

30 March 2022

I haven't used the adodb CSV connnector before - not sure if it works, but you could give it a go - it might be ok - just sounds extremely fragile.

Otaku Dude

30 March 2022

Thank you for the response Dan. I saw the csv option in the drive list and had hoped it was a file.

Dan Marsden

30 March 2022

@Otaku Dude - this plugin does not support the use of CSV files - it requires access to a database server and queries the database server directly for the information - thanks.

Otaku Dude

30 March 2022

Hi,
This looks super-useful, thank you. I have tried to search for documentation that covers setting up csv as the database driver. Is this simply a csv output from our database? How is it accessed? Many thanks, Nigel.

Dan Marsden

2 March 2021

works fine for us in 3.9 - as we don't use the plugins database ourselves for managing plugins, we do not regularly update the plugins db with the latest version of all our plugins due to the administrative overhead the latest versions of all our plugins are always in github.
Hopefully when MDLSITE-4781 is resolved it will allow us to automate this.

Ricardo Caiado

2 March 2021

Is this plugin still supported?

Kehinde Adeoya

9 June 2020

I'm curious this might be the answer to my yearning. Hosting cohorts in external database should mean that should mean that each externalised cohorts can be separate without users of each cohorts knowing they exist on the Moodle insurance, right?