Moodle Toolbox by sergxerj

Moodle Toolbox Firefox Extension
A firefox extension to automate some common moodle tasks.
Made to empower the teachers that lack platform rights to install plugins or manipulate themes that that add some of these functionalities.

========= Tools and their functionalities =========

= Attendance tool =

• Accepts emails, and names for setting attendance.
  • Can be configured to accept only one of these or a mixed list of both.
• Email-matching is always an exact, case-insensitive coincidence.
• Name-matching is configurable:
  • Names and last names can be out of order, or specified to be in forward (names lastnames) or backward (lastnames names) order.
  • The minimum required limit of name-terms to match can be configured (no need to match all name(s) and lastname(s))
• Can set attendance from:
  • Plain text list of names/emails in a large text input on the tool's window
  • MSTeams exported meeting attendance report (will try to determine if the meeting report's date matches the attendance date and warn if not)
  • Plaintext file with list of names/emails
• Will show a summary of students:
  • In the provided attendance list, but missing on the moodle attendance page
  • In the moodle attendance page, but missing on the provided attendance list
• Configurable default status values for students present/missing in the attendance, mappable to:
  • A specific value (the specified column header)
  • A specific index (the nth column)
  • Configurable amount of students to show per page in the attendance list (defaults to zero and is recommended to leave as that for the tool to properly work)

= Gradebook (single activity view) grading tool =

• Can mass-set grades from:
  • Plaintext list of names and grades in a large text input on the tool's window
  • Plaintext file with a list of names and grades
• Configurable separators for student-grade and student-student
• Reports:
  • Missing students in the list
  • Missing students in the page
• Can mass-set grades for:
  • All students
  • All students with empty grades only
  • Students in the list
  • Students in the list with empty grades only (including from a list of individual grades)
• Can set the list of students to be an established group course (after importing groups with the course data tool)

= Course view editor tool (Topics format, all sections/topics in one page) =

• Adds checkboxes to modules (activities, labels, etc.) for mass processing:
  • Move right (indent)
  • Move left (unindent)
  • Duplicate
  • Delete
  • Hide/Show
  • Open settings (in new tab, might need to allow opening popups in the browser, look for a browser warning)
  • Move to specified position
• (Un)Selection engine by inclusive (OR) and exclusive (AND) processing of:
  • Module's name (as displayed on the course)
    • With plain or JS regexp-matching
  • Section the module belongs to
  • Module visibility status
  • Module type (forum, assignment, etc.)
  • Ctrl+enter run filters shortcut
• Can shift+click checkboxes to (un)select ranges
• Shows a list of selectable sections for mass processing:
  • Hide
  • Show
  • Duplicate (only available in Moodle 4)
  • Remove
  • Move to specified position

= Course data tool =

• Prompts for getting currently useful course data when extension popup is opened
• Gets the course long and short names (for populating the tools' window footer and making extra sure you're working on the proper course)
• Gets course group data, useful for enabling the single activity view grading tool groups functionality.