General plugins

We started with a course certificated by our region. For the certification (if we want funds to do this course), each student must declare the amount of hours spent online (on Moodle) and offline (reading books and so on).

So I developed an activity for 1.4.2 through every student can declare the number of hours spent offline and can see the duration of his sessions on Moodle. Teachers can see the sessions of all students both online and offline.

How can I calculate session time?

Any technical notes: HTTP is a stateless protocol, so you cannot calculate connection time (delay, elapse, duration, ecc...). You can only see requests to an HTTP server. But you can fix a timeout, so that if you don't request any page for that period, the activity module breaks you session. In the module I set this timeout at 30 min (REGISTER_SESSION_TIMEOUT), but it's simple to put the same value of Moodle system session timeout.

Bye,

Fair

This is what you see when you are student:

This is what you see when you are teacher (I deleted the names for privacy reasons):

Bye,

Fair

Thanks Domenico,

This is great because I need to be able to report students' time on line.

John

Hi Domenico,

Have Moodle 1.5 installed and I am having difficulty getting the register module to work. When I install module in maintenence mode all seems well, the db tables are created ok: mdl_register and mdl_register_logs. Problem is when I include register in a course I am seeing error 'HTMLArea is undefined' and 'Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$tolleranceevaluation ' and 'Undefined property:  stdClass::$name'.

Do you think I have missed something in the installation?

Thanks a lot

John