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A better sitewide calendar

Hello everyone. I have a customers who is not that thrilled with the standard calendar in Totara/Moodle. Does anyone know of any other calendar plugins out there that they would recommend? Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Best

Matt

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Hi Matt

Completely agree, the use of the standard Moodle calendar is hopeless and not business ready. In addition to being awful it's based on supporting term/semester length courses and overly interested in exam and assessment dates and not connected to F2F sessions.

We created a heavily customised calendar in Moodle 1.9 and recently migrated it to Totara 2.4. It’s based on Face-to-face events in the site and has the right-hand side panel that shows matching waitlisted (un-dated) sessions. I’d be keen on sharing and hopefully further refinement in its use.

Does this look like it might solve your issue?

Cheers
Austen

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Hi guys,

Developing the calendar in this way is a good idea - Ill put in an enhancement request - if you have any suggestions or functionality requirements then please let us know.

regards,

George.

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Hey Austen

That looks pretty close to what they were describing they wanted. Would I be able to get ahold of this? Do you offer it as a plugin? How can I work with you?

Best

Matt

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Hi Matt

I'll ask our vendor on how to get the code to you (they’re strong on open source so it be about the mechanics of distribution rather than a permissions thing). Although, I’m not sure how good the documentation is and I’ve attached a piece of our F2F guide we have for course owners - it shows that to make the Calendar work each session has to have some mandatory values (Business Area, Topic, and Region) which I’m sure you can re-name in the code to suit.

Cheers
Austen

Add a new F2F Session.pdf

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Austen

I appreciate it. Who is your vendor? We are partnered with many of the Totara partners so I may already have a contact over there.

Thanks a ton

Matt

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If this is implemented in a generic way then we could look at including it in a future release if you are happy to share.

Simon

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Cool! Yes, very happy to share and I'll ask our vendor to follow up with you!

Cheers
Austen

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Hi Austen - We can see this working very well for a client we have now. If you could put your vendor in touch with us also (or us with them), we'd appreciate it. Best, Kathie

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Hi Kathie

Awesome, further demand & interest should help push this into core Totara! As I done for Matt, I'll ask our vendor to get the code to you.

Cheers
Austen

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Note: attached is our original paper about the Calendar we had developed - despite being from 2009 it is still a valid and accurate description of what & why.

Calendar Paper for Business Funding.pdf

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Turns out the Calendar functionality (based on Face-to-face events) is already in core Totara!

You can see it on the demo site:

https://demo.totaralms.com/blocks/facetoface/calendar.php

and probably on your own site: via .. /blocks/facetoface/calendar.php

In the new year I’ll write a ‘how to’ and see if it can get incorporated into the Totara documentation.