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Conference Program (the vetting plugin) — a Moodle activity that takes submissions from mod_confsubmissions through a reviewer workflow, then publishes the accepted programme.

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Part of the Conference Tools suite:

mod_confsubmissions — call for abstracts
mod_confprogram (this plugin) — reviewer vetting + public program
mod_confscheduler — drag-and-drop block schedule
mod_confcheckin — tickets, badges, QR check-in

What it does

The activity runs in two phases, switched from edit mode.

Review phase

Assign reviewers to each submission individually, or a whole reviewer group at once in group-review mode.
Review with a rubric built on Moodle's advanced grading API, optionally blind (reviewer and author identities hidden from each other, including any organiser-defined submission field that might identify the author). By default only the Manager role bypasses blind review; grant mod/confprogram:viewidentity explicitly to any other role that should see identities while reviewing.
Mark keynotes/panels unvetted to exclude them from review.
Record decisions — Accept / Reject / Resubmit / Waitlist — on the filterable Decision report, one at a time or in bulk. Resubmit reopens the submission for a fresh round with reviewer feedback visible; a Start a new round link jumps straight to bulk re-assignment.
The Decision report links into mod_confsubmissions' editor so a viewer with Edit any submission can fix a submission's details without leaving the workflow.

Display phase

A responsive, filterable list of accepted submissions with a favourite star, kept in sync with Conference Scheduler's time/room and "my timetable" state. Multiple days render as a single accessible table with consistent, sensibly-proportioned column widths and date-band divider rows, collapsing to a mobile-friendly two-row layout on narrow screens. Accepts ?trackid=X to filter to one track (the target of the scheduler's track pills).
Display settings (reachable from edit mode in either phase) choose which submission fields appear in the list and in the detail modal.

Both phases

Decision notifications email each speaker on Accept/Reject/Waitlist — but only once the instance reaches Display phase (the same embargo used for syncing status back to mod_confsubmissions). Templates are editable and can be switched off per activity.
Backup/restore & course reset — fully supported. Reset clears reviews, decisions, favourites and unvetted flags and returns the instance to Review phase; display settings and templates survive.

Requirements

Moodle 5.2 (2026042000) or later; supported on Moodle 5.2 and 5.3 ($plugin->supported = [502, 503]).
mod_confsubmissions installed in the same course.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/adamjenkins/moodle-mod_confprogram.git mod/confprogram
php admin/cli/upgrade.php

License

GNU GPL v3 or later. See LICENSE.

Author

Adam Jenkins adam@wisecat.net

adamjenkins / moodle-mod_confprogram

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