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Course Contacts Block

Maintained by Richard Oelmann, Mark Ward
The Course Contacts block displays a list of users on your course, various methods for communicating with them, and their current activity status.
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Supports Moodle 3.5-3.10 See all versions
Latest release: 6 years ago
Installations: 814
Downloads (last 90 days): 166
Frankenstyle name: block_course_contacts
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Mark Sharp
That's cool. I knew you worked for them, so wondered if they had adopted your plugin.
Richard Oelmann
Ah, apologies Mark, just seen that the Catalyst NZ team have indeed forked from my primary repo - Yes, feel free to swap, although now I'm aware of it, I will probably pull all/most of their changes across to this master as soon as I have chance.
Richard Oelmann
Hi Mark, Catalyst are not involved in managing the plugin, this and the delays updating the plugin database are entirely on me personally, outside my role with Catalyst. I'll try to get the plugin database updated in the next few days.
Mark Sharp
Looking at the github insights page, it appears that updates are being made by Catalyst on their repo but not on this repo. Are Catalyst maintaining this plugin now? Should I switch?
Andriy Semenets
No scrolling nor pagination in case of large number of participants
Jayden Tyronian
I had been using this on our 3.8 site. I’ve upgraded us now to 3.10.
The block appears but no longer shows the teaching staff. It will show students perfectly fine.
I am seeing if it’s something I can manually and easily tweak, but wondering if a 3.10 update to this one was coming and when? I haven’t seen many like this and we heavily utilise the block.
Richard Oelmann
So what version have you installed?
Carlos Vazquez
You cannot install the version for 3.5 by git because that branch is missing. I have installed it on a 3.5.12+ and with the debug activated it comes out: Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$description in /var/www/moodle/blocks/course_contacts/block_course_contacts.php on line 268
Qualis Products
nice post
Lastern Nom
Hi,
I have a question, when I click the messaging button in your "course contact block" it seems to go to a the "message" page and open the side panel there.
Is it possible to open the messaging side panel on the page itself without going to the "message page" ?
Vladimir S
Hi Richard, I've made a pull request for group support, when you have time, please take a look.
LMS Factory
Richard,
Thanks for your answer? I'll pull a request, and understand that it wont be available short term.
Richard Oelmann
The block is designed as a course contacts block and does not currently support groups. As suggested previously, if someone would like to provide a pull request for group support, I'd be happy to review and implement it, but it is not on my road map to develop at this time.
LMS Factory
Hello
i'm using your block in several courses, its very usefull, student really apreciate it. For the first time I have created separated groups in a course, But even if groups are separated i can see users profiles who are not in my groups. Is there any solutions to hide users who dont belongs to my groups (i'm using Moodle 3.5.2)
Thanks
Bruno
alain kerv
Hello,
I have a question about firstname/lastname on block course_contacts : Sometimes, we have this kind of name (ex : Delphine ARVEN-MOUSLI). With limitations of 18 characters, this name is not correctly shown, But if I exchange the dash (-) with an underscore (_), it's ok !! How I can adjust this problem ?
Thanks !
Alain