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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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Richard Oelmann
@Mark - I see this plugin is not being actively developed right now. Are you looking for someone to take over as plugin maintainer?
Richard Oelmann
I have a version working on Mdl3.0 and 3.1 - you can get it from https://github.com/roelmann/moodle-block_course_contacts
Apologies but I'd already made the changes on my local site before I considered adding it to github, but when I get chance I'll go back and do a proper fork of the original and add the changes as commits so they can be seen more easily.
Neil Stapleton
So I managed to get a bit further with 3.0, looks like MSSQL isn't an issue. Just need to update the block code to meet current Moodle requirements. So I now have the block showing the users.
Had to add the required db/access.php to the plugin folder.
https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Blocks#db.2Faccess.php
Not it appears there's a small issue with the functions that pull the user contact fields... I going to do some more on it today. Anyone fancy helping ?
Neil Stapleton
Great plugin. But I am trying to get this working on 3.0 running under IIS and MS SQL. Anyone managed it? I am happy to help test and contribute if someone can give me a starting point.
Emma Richardson
To install on 3.0, you need add the following line to version.php - $plugin->component = 'block_course_contacts'; (I didn't have an issue with this on 2.9)
That allows it to install and it appears to be working as normal.
Rhys Gannell
Hi Mark, we've gotten your block running on 2.5 and it's excellent! We're in the process of upgrading to 2.9, or even 3.0, but this block isn't up there yet. Is there an update in the works?
Joaquin Herrero
Hi, Can I somehow configure this block so that I can set in advance which roles will show up when I add the block to a course? Thanks!
Yousuf Tafhim
Same issue here as "German Vaiero" and "John Love". Moodle 2.5+ (Build: 20130621)
John Love
Same comment as "German Valero":
"...error "Missing English Language folder" when trying to install this add-on directly on a recent Moodle 2.5.2 local server (build 20130927)".
Any suggestions for how to resolve this error please? Thanks!
Alan Coats
Anyone tried this with Moodle 2.6 ?
Germán and Temudgin
Hi Mark,
I also got a "Missing English Language folder" when trying to install this add-on directly on a recent Moodle 2.5.2 local server (build 20130927), but by using the ZIP file it did install correctly, but it took 5 minutes to do it, which is way too long.
Could you please install a local test server and test the block behavior ? Thanks in advance.
Mark Ward
Hi Scott, we have been running this on Moodle 2.5 since mid-August without any problems. Has anyone else had any problems installing this?
Scott Hardwick
Has anyone gotten this to successfully install on Moodle 2.5? I tried both using the Install button and downloading it and put installing directly and both times I get "Missing English language folder" -- which is odd, in that the zip does have a lang folder with an en folder and its associated file.
Mark Ward
I've just uploaded V2 with a whole bunch of changes including a new quick email form and support for sorting contacts and displaying inherited role assignments.
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Hello Mat,
I am also happy helping in the testing. We launched new online courses for the September presentation on Friday, so it has been very busy for the last two days.
Please let me know where I could find the beta version. I work for the Medical School of the University of Dundee, we have our own learning platform in Moodle and course contacts is a very popular block among our tutors.