[Year 12 IT Apps] FW: room change

[Stephen Digby]

We have the moodle message "hacked" so that it automatically and immediately emails every message so people
get the message either online or in their inbox.  Thus we d not have to reply on staff visiting moodle alone,
they also get the students request by email BUT have to reply through moodle as they are not told the students
email address.
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Stephen Digby, Learning Technology Manager
mailto:admin at cheltsec.vic.edu.au 
Cheltenham Secondary College www.cheltsec.vic.edu.au Ph: 613 955 55 955  Fx: 9555 8617
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moodle/ message/ lib.php
///commented out the lines that check the users preferences and the online staus so that all messages get seny
by email immediately

/// Check to see if anything else needs to be done with it

    $preference = (object)get_user_preferences(NULL, NULL, $userto->id);

///    if (!empty($preference->message_emailmessages)) {  // Receiver wants mail forwarding    Commented out
by DIG to force all message to be emailed
///        if ((time() - $userto->lastaccess) > ((int)$preference->message_emailtimenosee * 60)) { //     
            $message = stripslashes_safe($message);
            $tagline = get_string('emailtagline', 'message', $SITE->shortname);

            $messagesubject = message_shorten_message(strip_tags($message), 30).'...';

            $messagetext = format_text_email($message, $format).
                           "\n\n--\n".$tagline."\n"."$CFG->wwwroot/message/index.php?popup=1";

            if ($preference->message_emailformat == FORMAT_HTML) {
                $messagehtml  = format_text($message, $format);
                $messagehtml .= '<hr /><p><a
href="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/message/index.php?popup=1">'.$tagline.'</a></p>';
            } else {
                $messagehtml = NULL;
            }

            $userto->email = $preference->message_emailaddress;   // Use custom messaging address
            email_to_user($userto, $userfrom, $messagesubject, $messagetext, $messagehtml);
 ///       }  ommented out by DIG to force all message to be emailed
 ///   }   Commented out by DIG to force all message to be emailed

    return $savemessage->id;


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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:52 PM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] FW: room change


I guess that it is just part of how we work, no one method suits every need or is 'better' than another.
Students either page me with the Moodle chat option or post an e-mail with our Internal e-mail system (soon to
be upgraded to Zimbra).

I answer the door if somebody says hello, read my faxes and snail mail standing over a rubbish bin, answer the
phone if somebody calls and .. (sigh) read my e-mail when and where I can. The office enjoys paging me over
the school PA system (my difficult to correctly pronounce name has devolved to Mr G), my colleagues enjoy
sticking bits of yellow paper on my monitor and forests fall as others fill up my pigeon hole. A collaborative
and integrated team effort, each to his own modus operatus.  My productivity and pace has gone up, my
attention span has decreased. 

I explain taht e-mail is the new snail mail and I may take a day or two to get back to them, phone only if I
am near a phone or call my mobile if urgent (* chime sound *) .. must go another e-mail to read.

Regards Roland


On 22/03/07, Brendyn Hancock <hancobr at nagle.sale.catholic.edu.au> wrote: 

Michael
 
Your blunder may be just the catalyst to start a thread on how schools communicate with there students.
 
It would appear that you communicating with your students via email is a very 'normal' thing for you.
 
How do others see this? Progressive or 'normal'?
 
 
Regards
 
 
Brendyn
 
 
 
Brendyn Hancock
IT Manager
bhancock at nagle.sale.catholic.edu.au





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