Custom Certificate - Assignment Feedback Comments

Features

• Automatic Truncation Handling: Includes a configurable character limit setting with automatic "Read more online" URL appended if threshold limits are exceeded. This text string can be altered in Language configuration.
• Rich Formatting preservation: Preserves safe inline HTML tags (like bolding, italics, paragraphs, and list layouts) when rendering onto PDFs instead of bulk stripping.
• Performance Cache Integrates: Uses indexed fast-queries with local cache storage pipelines built natively into database configurations to boost layout loads.
• Compatibility V2 ready: Wired correctly out-of-the-box with conditionals supporting upcoming core `Element System v2` layout specifications node.

Requirements

Dependency: Version

• Moodle: 4.1+
• mod_assign: Must be installed and enabled
• mod_customcert: 4.1+ (supports Element System v2 for 5.2+)

Configuration & Usage

Once installed to your moodle build, the element will appear as "Assignment Feedback Comments" inside the template bundle items menu.

Upon adding the element to a cert template:

1. Assignment ID: Choose the target assignment mapping from the dropdown directory.
2. Character Limit: (Optional) Enter the maximum allowed characters. Type `0` to display full feedback length boundaries.

Screenshots

1. Overview
2. Element Configuration
3. Text Truncation
4. Text Formatting

Limitations & Fallbacks

This element reads **only** from the *Feedback comments* sub-plugin (`assignfeedback_comments`).

Situation > Text Shown on Certificate

• • Assignment deleted / uninstalled > _Feedback not available_
  • Grader has not graded user yet > _Feedback not available_
  • Graded but with NO comment filled > _No feedback provided_
  • HTML tags exceed threshold > Safely closes open tags during shorten pass