Currently, large courses can take a long time to perform a full regrade.
This is currently handled with a progress bar to prevent frontend
timeouts while the regrade takes place. However, because it can take so
long a teacher may not want to wait with the page open for several
minutes, particularly if they are performing several operations that
trigger a regrade.
This adds a new async flag to grade_regrade_final_grades which is true
by default. Instead of performing the regrade immediately, this queues
an instance of \core\task\regrade_final_grades for the course, which
will be executed in the background.
It is advisable to always leave the async flag set true, except in the
following scenarios:
- Automated tests.
- The regrade_final_grades task which actually wants to do the
calculations immediately.
- When you have performed a check to determine that the regrade process
is unlikely to take a long time, for example there are only a small
number of grade items.
Other similar columns config.value and config_plugins.value are TEXT, so
it is surprising that this column is different, and that has lead to
bugs in the past, so we should make it consistent.
- Add new 'FEATURE_QUICKCREATE' plugin feature that indicates the module can
be created with a single click. It will use its own 'quickcreatename' defined
string as the initial default name.
- Add new 'core_courseformat\external\create_module' web service to create new
modules with the quickcreate featuer in the course page.
- Add a new 'create_module' state action.
Storage of session metadata has moved into the session handler class.
This allows for other classes to fully control session handling and
removes the dependancy on the core sessions database table.
Previously, the standard method of interaction with the
session metadata was direct DB calls; this may break other plugins as there
are now proper APIs available through the session manager.
Co-authored-by: Darren Cocco <moodle@darren.cocco.id.au>
Co-authored-by: Trisha Milan <trishamilan@catalyst-au.net>
Co-authored-by: Andrew Nicols <andrew@nicols.co.uk>
Some email body strings use first names as greetings,
some use full names, and some do not.
Using the first name for greeting makes it consistent and
a bit more "personal".
The Open ID Connect plugin uses null for the password,
which makes the internal password update fail to proceed.
Allowing null resolved the problem.
As a note, there is a potential issue if the authentication method has
a false return for the prevent_local_password because it will trigger
the hash_internal_user_password() where the $password can not be null.
Since this only addresses the oauth2 issue, we should ignore it.
Per the previous commit, default homepage configuration (set either
for the site or as a user preference) can now be extended by third
party hook callbacks, in which case a URL is stored.
Nathan Nguyen