Wednesday, July 22, 2026

transition to Moodle Marketplace - mod_book unavailable

We got an email from Moodle about moving the Plugins directory to Moodle Marketplace - 

"The transition to Moodle Marketplace may require you to make some adjustments to your Moodle site set-up. See what’s changed at Plugins Directory has moved to Moodle Marketplace."

Here is the list of plugins (at the bottom of the page in this link) which will not be supported after 31 August 2026,

In case any of the plugins we regularly use are listed there, they may not work (or may not be updated) after 31 Aug.

So, VLS got back saying that he 
reviewed the complete list with the list of installed plugins. I have identified 2 plugins, viz., mod_book, atto_fontfamily. 

ChatGPT suggested running SQL to check which courses use mod_book, which I ran - 

SELECT DISTINCT  c.id, c.shortname, c.fullname,
    COUNT(cm.id) AS number_of_books
    FROM prefix_course_modules cm
    JOIN prefix_modules m ON cm.module = m.id
    JOIN prefix_course c ON cm.course = c.id
    WHERE m.name = 'book'
    GROUP BY c.id, c.shortname, c.fullname
    ORDER BY c.fullname; 

On one of our instances, there were 5 courses with 6 "books" while two others had "books" only in "test" or "dump" courses.

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