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Rather than performing complicated upgrade procedures from the old (broken) logic in three activity modules, we are adding new capabilities to those three modules to make them all consistent, and using them in a callback from the Ratings API. This is the same as the Comments API. The downside is that two sets of capabilities need to be enabled for ratings to work. Hopefully this can be mitigated somewhat when build some sort of shortcuts on the module settings forms to set capabilities. In the meantime, the effect is reduced somewhat by having all the rating capabilities enabled by default for student and teacher roles. This means control is in the hands of whatever the modules have set, giving very close backward compatibility. This is not the perfect solution, but neither were the other two.
ACTIVITY MODULES
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These are main modules in Moodle, allowing various activities.
Each of these modules contains a number of expected components:
mod_form.php: a form to setup/update a module instance
version.php: defines some meta-info and provides upgrading code
pix/icon.gif: a 16x16 icon for the module
db/install.xml: an SQL dump of all the required db tables and data
index.php: a page to list all instances in a course
view.php: a page to view a particular instance
lib.php: any/all functions defined by the module should be in here.
constants should be defined using MODULENAME_xxxxxx
functions should be defined using modulename_xxxxxx
There are a number of standard functions:
modulename_add_instance()
modulename_update_instance()
modulename_delete_instance()
modulename_user_complete()
modulename_user_outline()
modulename_cron()
modulename_print_recent_activity()
If you are a developer and interested in developing new Modules see:
Moodle Documentation: http://moodle.org/doc
Moodle Community: http://moodle.org/community