Help Me Now Block

Maintained by Jérôme Mouneyrac, Karen Eng, David Zaharee, Matt Oquist, Jonathan Doane
This moodle block creates a chat interface for students and teachers to connect. It also provides a help desk chat interface for students to ask questions of the teachers/admins who are assigned as helpers and currently logged in. It also has plugins for multiple sharing tools that can be enabled.
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Supports Moodle 1.9-2.7 See all versions
Latest release: 12 years ago
Installations: 14
Downloads (last 90 days): 7
Frankenstyle name: block_helpmenow
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Tristan Pease
This block looks like exactly what I need, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be up to date for v2.9+. Are you intending to support it going forward, or is this an orphaned plugin? If so, do you know of any good plugins / workarounds to achieve a similar effect? Wish I knew enough to help maintain it myself!
Bill Steele
We were hoping to use this block next academic year but on testing we found that an unanswered chat has resulted in the teacher being repeatedly emailed and no obvious means to respond and stop the email. The message received is shown below with the chat history link having no response window.
Hello Bill Steele,
You may have missed these messages in Help Me Now from student02 student02 while you were offline:
student02 student02: Hi can you help me?
Sent: 02:39:07 PM
Link to chat history page
Daf Rees
I have a few questions regarding this plug-in. Who is best to contact
Sarah Jane
looking forward to trying out 2.x version
Karen Eng
We are starting work on a 2.x version soon, as we are working on upgrading our site to 2.x.
Anthony Borrow
Karen (and companions) - Many thanks for sharing this plugin with the Moodle community. I have reviewed and installed the plugin on Moodle 1.9 and it seems to function fine. I did not test the plugins to Adobe Connect, Wiziq or GoToMeeting. Any thoughts of having a version for 2.x? Please consider providing a URL for documentation and a screenshot or two when you have a chance to do so. Peace - Anthony