Pilot role and plugins guide

Event monitoring allows staff with the Pilot role to receive notifications when certain events happen in Moodle. See the events list for examples of events and their levels.

A rule needs to be created for the event to be monitored and then a user (normally the Lecturer or Programme Administrator) will need to subscribe to the rule in order to be notified.

The rule must specify what the event is and how often it must happen before a notification is sent to a subscriber. The notification may be a pop-up, an email, or another chosen method.

1. Select Reports from the contextual navigation menu.
2. Select Event monitoring rules.

Moodle's own Event Monitoring guidance provides in-depth information on how to enable event monitoring and set up your rules.

Once a rule has been created, staff enrolled on a module can subscribe to it via the user menu. They will then receive notifications when the event is triggered.

1. Navigate to your personal user menu by selecting your name/ID photo in the top right hand corner of the module. 
2. Select Preferences and select Notification preferences.
3. Navigate to Event monitor at the bottom of the list.
4. Toggle Web and/or Email on to receive notifications.
5. Go back on your browser
6. Select Event monitoring from the Miscellaneous panel on the right of the page.
7. Choose the relevant module and a list of both current subscriptions and the available event rules will load.
8. Event monitoring rules are set up against particular events in activities. For example, all Quiz attempts on a module. From the Choose drop-down menu, you can select to subscribe to all instances of an event of a module or limit your subscription to specific instances of the activity.