Message My Teacher

Hi,
How can I quit the default name plugin "MESSAGE MY TEACHER", to none or change? we speak in other language.
thanks

Tony, the newly released version 2.2.2 fixes the upgrade bug.
Guido, thanks for the suggestion, it's also in the new release!

Just a small recommendation: adding a " ORDER BY u.firstname ASC, u.lastname" to the query in line 68 of blocks_messageteacher.php makes a longer list far easier to scan (our course has 20+ tutors, so this is relevant). Otherwise - good job!

Hi Tony,
Thanks for your report, I have found this and fixed it locally but not yet released the fix. I've added your report to the issue tracker with more infomation: https://github.com/marxjohnson/moodle-block_messageteacher/issues/11

Followup. Upgraded to Moodle 2.5, reinstalled the block, and it went in fine. Perhaps an issue with that particular build of Moodle 2.4 that I was using?

I'm getting an error trying to upgrade to this latest version:
block_messageteacher
Unknown error upgrading block_messageteacher to version 2013031301, can not continue.
Debug info:
Error code: upgradeerror
Stack trace:
line 249 of /lib/upgradelib.php: upgrade_exception thrown
line 821 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_block_savepoint()
line 362 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins_blocks()
line 1544 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins()
line 349 of /admin/index.php: call to upgrade_noncore()
Moodle version is Moodle 2.4 (Build: 20121203)
I'm going to just remove the block and upgrade to Moodle 2.5 anyway, and when I've got that done and tested I'll try this block again, but I thought I should at least point out the issue. We had been using the previous version of the block, which had no problem.

Chris,
Your site's Message system will need to be enabled for this block to do anything useful - all it really does is display a link to certain users' Message pages.
Jay,
Please refer to this issue on the tracker: https://github.com/marxjohnson/moodle-block_messageteacher/issues/6

How can I change the title of the block? I use "Tutors" instead of "Teachers" but I don't find the way to change this. I modified the php in the language folder and also introduced $string['blockname'] = 'Message the tutors'; but it is not working. Do you know how to change the title of this particular plug in? Thank you :D

does site wide messaging have to be enabled? i would like student to be able to message teachers but not each other and i thought this maybe able to complete this? Thanks

I've installed it on Moodle 2.3 and I'm having the same problem as Logan

Hi Mark, for some reason the plugin is only visible when I am in editing mode. It does not show up on the student view at all. I have gone into the block config and changed the setting for it to show on all pages. I have also modified and added the permissions to the student, but still no luck. Any ideas why this might be happening?

Hi Daemon,
This would be possible - you'd need to find all of the parent contexts from the path field of the course's context, then iterate up the tree looking for users assigned the selected roles in each context.
I've created an issue for it on the tracker
https://github.com/marxjohnson/moodle-block_messageteacher/issues/2

Hi Mark,
Would you have the time to help me? I would appreciate it if you could, and all our teachers would be thankful!
'Site Admin->plugins->blocks->Message My Teacher' allows me to assign the roles of those who will show up in the block.
In my case, course administrators wish to be added to the block along with teachers. It seems that any role that I have assigned to a course at the category level does not work. This is problematic for us as we have many courses or 'papers' under each sub/category or 'programme' which makes assigning course admins at a paper level retrospectively to each and every paper very time consuming and error-prone.
Is it possible for you to come up with a way for me to tweak my MMT code which propogates roles assigned at the category/sub category level instead of ONLY at the paper level?
I'm not a fluent PHP/MySQL coder, so don't know where to start.
With Thanks

Hello Mark,
thank you so much for your response. This feature is extremely valuable to us so if you could find the time to do this little hack I'd gladly pay you for it!

Hi Peter,
I've added this to the Issue Tracker[1], although it's unlikely I'm going to get time to work on it in the near future as our institution handles classes rather differently to yours - we have a separate page altogether for each class, so students are only enrolled on a page with their own teachers.
If anyone wishes to contribute this feature it would be most welcome!
[1] https://github.com/marxjohnson/moodle-block_messageteacher/issues/1