Developers: Ponlawat Weerapanpisit, Adam Jenkins
This plugin is
mainly for institutional Moodle administrators.
At the end of a
semester, courses are typically full of user content: submitted
assignments, quiz attempts, forum posts etc. If the same course is to
be reused in a following semester, it then becomes necessary to clear
out the data and unenrol the previous semester’s students. Moodle
has the built-in course reset function that serves this purpose,
however it must be done course by course. Even with course upload
with CSV files, there is no way to specify what is to be reset. For
small sites this may not be a problem, but for sites that are
centrally administered with several hundred courses, the task of
resetting courses becomes unfeasible. This plugin solves the problem
of centrally resetting courses by enabling the administrator to reset
multiple courses simultaneously.
First, the courses
to be reset are selected from a list of all courses. They can be
selected one by one or by categories. Next, the options for resetting
every module in the selected courses are set. Also, the date and time
when the reset should happen is set. Clicking continue sets a
scheduled task that will reset all the selected courses at the
specified time. The reset is run as a scheduled task and cannot be
run directly through the interface. This is by design as running the
reset by cron prevents problems with PHP timeouts.
※ A second plugin to allow defaults for course resets to be pre-specified by the admin has also been developed. ↓
https://github.com/ponlawat-w/moodle-tool_resetsettings
Development of this plugin was funded by a 2019 MAJ Research Grant.
