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dthies / moodle-mod_plenum

Moodle activity facilitating parliamentary meetings in person or with audio and video conferencing
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Plenary meeting

The Plenary meeting activity module organizes online and in person meetings following traditional rules of parliamentary procedure. It may be used as a tool to teach skills to conduct a meeting or to structure and administer faculty, staff, student or other organizational meetings.

Users are granted the privileges to speak, make motions, vote or chair meetings through Moodle capabilities and roles. The activity maintains a record of motions to provide meeting minutes. User actions are logged in Moodle log system.

The activity can be used with an in person event or as an online event. It has a integration with Deft response block to allow audio and video to be shared based on whether the user is recognized to speak in the activity. Other web conference or media servers also can be used as long as users can be managed by them manually. A minimal integration is provided for Jitsi meet.

Installing via uploaded ZIP file

  1. Log in to your Moodle site as an admin and go to Site administration > Plugins > Install plugins.
  2. Upload the ZIP file with the plugin code and ZIP file for block Deft response. You should only be prompted to add extra details if your plugin type is not automatically detected.
  3. Check the plugin validation report and finish the installation.

Installing manually

The plugin can be also installed by putting the contents of this directory to

{your/moodle/dirroot}/mod/plenum

and place code for block Deft response in

{your/moodle/dirroot}/blocks/deft

Afterwards, log in to your Moodle site as an admin and 1. go to Site administration > Notifications to complete the installation. 2. Adjust subplugin settings to accommodate variations in parliamentary procedure.

  1. Install Block deft response or other conferencing integration dependency for online meeting support.

Dependencies

The Deft response block is required as a dependency to install. The basic functions for the plugin will work without any external dependencies. However, the video conferencing options require external services to work.

The Deft video meeting form requires that Deft response block is configured to work with the service from deftly.us. See Deft response block documentation for more information. A free account can be created at deftly.us to obtain a sample course there with this plugin configured.

The Jitsi Meet meeting form requires access to a Jitsi Meet server that is secured. One can choose a Jitsi hosting provider or install a local copy of Jitsi meet. Configuration is compatible with the Jitsi activity module.

License

2023 onward Daniel Thies dethies@gmail.com

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.