How to automate email notification for course request.

Hello all,

I have the following:

Joomla 2.5.9.
Moodle 1.9
jmoodle 0.9

I've got the integration working but one point still can't figure out. How do i get an email when a customer (student) request a course? I would think it would just use the code from moodle but i have to approve each one so i need to know when it is in the list for approval.

Can this be automated?

Also, Profiles from Joomla be sent to moodle. I have this "Profile types integration enabled, but no profiles selected to create in Moodle" but I'm not using anything but joomla profile. I might use Virtuemart later.



Thanks
Bryan

Sure, you could add some code to send emails notifications when a user request a course.

Disable profile types integration in joomdleconfiguration if you are not using them.

How would a layman accomplish this task? I can't sit and monitor the courses to approve them. Is there a easy way to configure or auto approve this?

thanks

Bryan

Yes agreed. This will require customisation of the current Joomdle code. If you would like us to investigate and build for you, please send an email to development@joomdle.com and we can provide you with a quotation for this work.

Thanks

> Is there a easy way to configure or auto approve this?

If you want to auto-approve, why course requests? Why don't you let people just enrol by themselves?

Antonio,

We are using moodle for customer training modules for our application. It is our intention to charge at some point once we have all the kinks out of it. I know a shop can be integrated but our customers are in healthcare and thus use to being invoiced. Thus, I like to restrict access and require 'request' get approval from organization and then enable. For this process to work smooth, an email notification would be best but I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks for your input!

Bryan

I think you have a few issues to consider here:

1) How does the customer get an invoice
2) How does a student get approval
3) How is payment done

Each of the above are independent issues. I assume that a student may or may not be the person who approves and pays? I assume the person who approves may not pay?

These three issues / questions really need to be understood in order for us to give you some quality feedback. For example, there are a few tools that can generate an automated invoice once payment has been made. These invoices could be via email, link to webpage or a pdf file.

For payment, sometimes the student pays with credit card and claims back from the company. Other times an invoice is generated and the client pays in for all of their employees / students at once. This of course would need to be confirmed prior to the employees getting access to the courses.

Perhaps you can share a little about the above three questions first so we can be more specific and relevant to your situation.

Chris