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