Automate various teaching actions in the Moodle of the university of Lübeck.
Almost all scripts take these environment variables as input:
course Course id
section Weekly section in the course
user Username
pass Password
Upload file "exercises.pdf" with title "Exercise Sheet":
name="Exercise Sheet" description="Exercise Sheet" ./upload.sh exercises.pdf
Create a heading in a course:
description="<h5>Some heading text</h5>" descriptionformat=html ./add.sh label showdescription=1
The examples assume the above environment variables have been set, so it knows in which course the content should be created.
You only need bash and Xidel >= 0.9.9 installed.
The scripts can then be called without installation.
Xidel is searched as ~/xidel. You can edit common.sh to adjust this and other configuration.
Adds something to a moodle course
Input as environment variables and parameters
course
section
name
description -> long description
descriptionformat -> format as you can choose in the Moodle: html, moodle, markdown, text
$1 -> the thing to add
e.g. label, url, page, etherpadlite, moodleoverflow
$2 -> additional options (url encoded or JSON)
Adds a link to $1
Input as environment variables and parameters
course
section
name
description -> long description
descriptionformat -> format as you can choose in the Moodle: html, moodle, markdown, text
$1 -> link target
$2 -> additional options (url encoded or JSON)
Print the results of a choice activity, sorted by first name (results in the moodle are unsorted)
Input:
$1 -> Id
Loads the moodle configuration, user and password, xidel path. Used internally by every other script
Post message STDIN to forum $1
$1 is the forum post id not the id from the forum view url. (look at the hidden input with name "forum" in the form code of the forum)
options:
$2 -> subject
$3 -> additional options (url encoded or JSON)
messageformat
Downloads the list of students from a course
Input as environment variable
course
Downloads submissions from an assignment
Input as environment variables
exercise Assignment id
Im Moodle muss die Zahl der angezeigten Abgaben auf 100 gesetzt werden (oder die Zahl der Studenten), da nur die erste Seite heruntergeladen wird.
Sets the grade of a list of students
Input:
$course
$1 -> itemid from url
$2 -> grade
stdin -> list of students (name or id=1234)
Create a "merged" subdirectory containing:
all files of the current directory
all files removed by moveduplicates.sh, but replaced by the file that has replaced the duplicate in the current dir (assuming all duplicates are named GROUP...-).
Move duplicated files in the current directory to a "duplicates" subdirectory
Hides some activities
Input as environment variables and parameters
course
$1 title of activities to hide
Hides activities with caption "Vorlesungsfolien"
Input as environment variables
course
Hides week section
Input as environment variables and parameters
course
$1 to $2 section numbers to hide
Makes an assignment
Input:
environment variables:
course
section
stdin:
parameters
(see modifyassignment)
Create a grading formula for a course. Condition: pass if at most two exercise assignments were failed.
Input as environment variable
course
Call it with message.sh userid "message" to send a message to someone
Message login data to multiple people
Input on stdin
keys to change (in JSON/XQuery, without surrounding {})
urls to exercises
important keys:
"duedate", "allowsubmissionsfromdate", "cutoffdate"
"assignsubmission_file_enabled": 1
"sendnotifications": 0, 1
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Example to shift exercises from one year to the next:
"alldates": xs:dayTimeDuration("P364D"),
"assignsubmission_file_enabled": 1,
"sendnotifications": 0
https://moodle.uni-luebeck.de/course/modedit.php?update=112042&return=1
https://moodle.uni-luebeck.de/course/modedit.php?update=112057&return=1
https://moodle.uni-luebeck.de/course/modedit.php?update=112070&return=1
https://moodle.uni-luebeck.de/course/modedit.php?update=112077&return=1
https://moodle.uni-luebeck.de/course/modedit.php?update=112087&return=1
https://moodle.uni-luebeck.de/course/modedit.php?update=112117&return=1
https://moodle.uni-luebeck.de/course/modedit.php?update=112127&return=1
https://moodle.uni-luebeck.de/course/modedit.php?update=112135&return=1
https://moodle.uni-luebeck.de/course/modedit.php?update=112143&return=1
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Upload a (TCS) exercise sheet given as tex file to the moodle course and create assignment/VPLs
Input as environment variable
$1 tex file (if absent use random tex file from current directory)
course (if absent read from tex file)
Deletes everything from a course
course
Removes the duedate from an exercise with id $exercise
Reads the start and end dates for the semesters of this year from the university of Lübeck webpage.
Also reads holidays.
Sets text of section $section
Input as environment variables and parameters
course
section
name
description
descriptionformat
Sets the titles of the sections of a course.
Input as environment variables and parameters
course
section Starting section (default 1)
stdin New titles
Creates or changes a VPL.
Input as environment variables and parameters
course
section
name
description
$1 -> filename
$2 -> additional assignment options
Shows the title of the weeks in a course
Input as environment variables and parameters
course
$1 start week
$2 end week
Uploads a file to a moodle course.
Input as environment variables and parameters
course
section
name
description
folderid if uploading to an existing folder
$1 -> filename