Site Notice
This plugin displays notices to users.
Features
- Site wide notices displayed in a modal pop up.
- Ability to limit your notices to a specific cohort.
- Re display a notice in a configurable period of time.
- Set a start date and expiry date for a notice
- Keep displaying a notice until a specific course is completed.
- Optionally request users to accept a notice, or they will be logged out from LMS.
- Force users to be logged out after seeing a notice.
- Reporting on who accepted / dismissed a notice.
Branches
| Moodle version | Branch |
|------------------|-------------------|
| Moodle 3.9 - 4.1 | MOODLE_39_STABLE |
| Moodle 4.3+ | MOODLE_403_STABLE |
Configuration
Enable the plugin
Site administration > Site Notice > Settings: "Enabled"
Allow updating notices
Site administration > Site Notice > Settings: "Allow notice update"
If the config is enabled, user will be able to update existing notice.
Allow deleting notices
Site administration > Site Notice > Settings: "Allow notice deletion"
If the config is enabled, user will be able to delete existing notice.
Clean up other related data when deleting a notice
Site administration > Site Notice > Settings: "Clean up info related to the deleted notice"
If the config is enabled (and "notice deletion" is also allowed), when deleting a notice, other records related to the notice
in hyperlinks, hyperlinks history, acknowledgement, user last view will also be deleted.
Usage
Create new notice
- Go to Manage Notices: Site administration > Site Notice > Manage Notice
- Click on "Create New Notice"
- Enter Title
- Enter Content
- Set up reset interval ('reset every') if required. The notice will be displayed to user again once the specified period elapses.
- Set up start and end dates if required. Set "Is perpetual" to "Yes" and start/end dates will become available.
- Requires Acknowledgement: If enabled, the user will need to accept the notice before they can continue to use the LMS site.
- Forece logout: If enabled, the user will be logged out of the site after closing the notice.
If the user does not accept the notice, he/she will be logged out of the site.
- Set up target cohort(s).
Edit Notice (Requires "Allow notice update")
- Go to Manage Notices: Site administration > Site Notice > Manage Notice
- Click on the gear icon to view existing notice.
Disabled Notice
- Go to Manage Notices: Site administration > Site Notice > Manage Notice
- Click on the 'eye' icon to disable/enable notice
Reset Notice
- Go to Manage Notices: Site administration > Site Notice > Manage Notice
- Click on the 'load/reload' icon to reset notice
Delete Notice (Requires "Allow notice deletion")
- Go to Manage Notices: Site administration > Site Notice > Manage Notice
- Click on the 'trash' icon to delete notice
View/Download Notice Acknowledgement Report
- Go to Manage Notices: Site administration > Site Notice > Manage Notice
- Click on the 'chart' icon to view notice report
- Apply "Date range" filter if required
- Choose a file format and click on download button
View/Download Notice Dismiss Report
- Go to Manage Notices: Site administration > Site Notice > Manage Notice
- Click on the 'risk' icon to view notice report
- Apply "Date range" filter if required
- Choose a file format and click on download button
Crafted by Catalyst IT
This plugin was developed by Catalyst IT Australia:
https://www.catalyst-au.net/
Contributing and Support
Issues, and pull requests using github are welcome and encouraged!
https://github.com/catalyst/moodle-local_sitenotice/issues
If you would like commercial support or would like to sponsor additional improvements
to this plugin please contact us:
https://www.catalyst-au.net/contact-us
