Group choice

Maintained by Nicolas Dunand
This module allows students to enrol themselves in a group within a course. The teacher can select which groups students can chose from and the maximum number of students allowed in each group.
Price option: Free

Supports Moodle 2.1-5.1 See all versions
Latest release: 5 months ago
Installations: 7847
Downloads (last 90 days): 1948

Frankenstyle name: mod_choicegroup
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Could you try updating to the latest version (1.4.4, Build 2014010100) and confirm the bug still exists?
Sorry: I use Moodle 2.4.6 & Group choice 2013090100
I have another problem: When viewing choices made, selecting a student and trying to delete his group choice with "Choose an action..." and "Delete", I get a blank page at the same address. The student is not removed from the group.
Hello Mike,
I consider this hasn't to be done within the plugin (most plugins don't do this), but rather with the theme. If the breadcrumbs are not usable enough for any reason, you could consider using another theme or adapting the one you're using.
any way to add a link/button to return to the course? users are not sure how to get back. the breadcrumbs are not obvious enough.
Thanks German for the notice, I've just corrected it in the latest version on GitHub (see "Source control URL" link above).
Hi,
I like the group choice add-on. I think it will improve if you change one English language string:
2.5 [modulename_help,choicegroup] The choice module enables the teacher to ask a question and specify a choice of multiple responses.
to something like:
2.5 [modulename_help,choicegroup]
The Group Choice module allows students to enrol themselves in a group within a course. The teacher can select which groups students can chose from and the maximum number of students allowed in each group.
Which clearly states the use of this module.
Thanks in advance.
The updated version of the Group Choice plugin now officially supports Moodle 2.6!
Hi Colin,
From my (not extensive) testing, everything seems to work fine in 2.6. If will promptly correct any bugs filed here or on GitHub ("Source control URL" link above).
Hi Nicolas - Do you have plans for officially supporting Moodle 2.6?
Hi jean-Luc,
Thanks a lot for taking the time to make thorough tests and for reporting it so clearly.
CONTRIB-4645 has been dealt with. Moreover, I improved the logging feature, so that the reports actually show into/from which groups the students have enrolled or left.
The latest version is as of now available on GitHub (see "Source control URL" link above) and should land here shortly.
Best regards,
Nicolas
OK, did some testing and digging in the forums (this link https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=174424#p965504 was the hint).
I reported the bug here: CONTRIB-4645
Regards
JLD
Hi Nicolas,
thanks for this plugin, we're using it extensively and it is extremely useful! The updated version on Github does indeed fix the multiple groups problem, more thanks for that!
An issue we have (but hard to know if students are giving us an accurate report or if they're just trying to get a "seat" in a group that is closed), is that some students' choices seem to disappear. From the reports, all I can see for those students is that they made a choice, then chose again, usually in the same minute or the next - I do however get the same report results from some other students, and they seem to be in a group; SO, just asking whether you know about this. i'll investigate from my side, try to reproduce the issue and let you know...
Just a few questions/suggestions,
- is it possible to see the history of choices of a student? In the reports, I can see the "choose" and "Choose again", but not what the choices were (might be handy in some cases).
- A feature suggestion - it'd be great if it were possible, in the "view X responses" page, to select students and send them a message. Right now, it is only possible to delete choices, we'd love the possibility to select the students who haven't made a choice yet, and send them a reminder; (seems like the completion report indicates the students who have made then removed a choice are considered as having done the activity) Or if students' e-mail addresses were included in the excel export of the file, that'd solve it as well (right now I DL the choices, then export the gradebook, and merge the two files, but that's a little trickier for some colleagues)
TIA and Thx again smile
Hi Peter,
The latest version (2013071000) is available on GitHub (see "Source control URL" link) and should be available here shortly. This version fixes all known bugs.
Logged in as a student I get this message when changing group, and it results in the student becoming member of both groups:
Did you remember to make the first column something unique in your call to get_records? Duplicate value '18' found in column 'gid'.
line 1032 of /lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php: call to debugging()
line 327 of /lib/conditionlib.php: call to mysqli_native_moodle_database->get_records_sql()
line 1698 of /lib/modinfolib.php: call to condition_info_section->is_available()
line 337 of /lib/modinfolib.php: call to section_info->__construct()
line 1341 of /lib/modinfolib.php: call to course_modinfo->__construct()
line 2789 of /lib/moodlelib.php: call to get_fast_modinfo()
line 26 of /mod/choicegroup/view.php: call to require_login()
I'm using Moodle 2.4.5 and the 2012111400 version of the plug in.