What is it?
Date manager is a one-page report that allows the viewing and editing of dates and names associated with the more common date-sensitive activities in Moodle. The report includes:
- Moodle assignments
- Turnitin assignments
- Quizzes
- Moodle Workshops
Why use it?
Date manager brings activity dates together on one page, it's a quick and simple way to review and amend them. It's particularly useful for courses that have large numbers of date-sensitive activities distributed across many different topic areas or tabs where it's time consuming to locate and check names and dates individually.
The report includes direct links to the settings pages of listed activities where, if necessary, other activity details can be changed. Note these links are called Add restricted access or Edit restricted access but they both link to an activity's general settings.
In addition a graphic timeline of the reported activities appears at the bottom of the report.
This allows a quick visual inspection of the spread of activities and their dates, each activity icon in the timeline is also a link to that activity's settings.
How do I set one up?
| No set-up is required. Date manager can be found within any course's Administration block by expanding the Reports link. |
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Cautions and limitations
Date manager allows activities to be filtered by type i.e. you can select just quizzes, just Turnitin assignments etc. If you make edits and change the filter selection before saving, your changes will be lost.
Date manager will only save changes if the dates of all activities in the report are legitimate. For instance, attempting to save a report with one or more Turnitin assignments having due dates greater than a year in the past will cause the report to be returned with the error message 'Warning! there are form validation errors error below. Your changes have NOT been saved yet' - to help you identify the problematic dates additional error messages will appear within listed activities
Further information
If you have a specific question about the tool please contact the Digital Education team.
