An improvement suggestion for the SDS Sync

[bradnielsen2981]

Hi, this is just an improvement suggestion for the SDS sync which I know is still in preview mode. Moodle Cohorts can often provide a more flexible class arrangement than simple class enrolment. It would be nice if the SDS Sync also provided the option to created Cohorts of students and was able to add or remove students to Cohorts if added or removed from the SDS course.

cheers,
Brad

[jamesmcq]

Thanks @bradnielsen2981 - I've added this to our list to look at in the future. Much appreciated!

[bradnielsen2981]

Thanks James, the other suggestion which I think has been suggested by another on Github, is if the SDS could suspend the enrolment of a user in a Moodle course, if they have changed class inside the SIS/SDS. This is probably a more immediate fix than using Cohorts. We have students changing subjects all the time which means the enrolment of students can quickly get out of date..

[cbrherms]

I'd like to second this suggestion
How i'd love for an auto created "all students" cohort.

[peta3000]

thanks for suggesting the cohorts sync functionality.
Although it would be REALLY helpful to add the functionality to SYNC AZURE AD GROUPS WITH MOODLE COHORTS in general.
I would say all our customers (schools) who already do their user-management in Azure AD have them organized in AD groups and 90% of them would love to sync their AD groups with moodle cohorts.

There are actually plenty of desperate Moodle forum posts looking for this or a similar feature, like this one:
https://next.moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=440131&lang=en

And there are also some solutions from the Moodle-Community like Matt Hamilton's PowerShell Module for Moodle:
https://github.com/WodongaTAFE/PSMoodle

But it would be MUUUUUUUCH more convenient for the average Moodle admin (often a school teacher being burden with the task by his colleagues) just to be able to set-up this sync/mapping function in the GUI of their Moodle-Instance and MS 365 integration plugin etc. or to be able to set-up the webservice for such a sync via the GUI themselves.

I would be deeply thankful and appreciative, if this humble request would be considered 🙏🙏🙏