Gradebook

Hi, Mike,

the instructions in the Readme file look promising.

I may want to incorporate some of the features into the Completion Report block. What you have created is only a small step away from having a Transcript for a student, and then another small step to issue a Certificate of Completion in PDF format.

I am excited to try your code.

Thanks,

Andrew

Hey, Mike,

I finally got it installed on 1.8 for testing, and it looks great. I have some trouble with the code, but once I converted $CFG->prefix and a few other little things, it works fine. I will test it using a number of test users and let you know the result.

Thanks again,

Andrew

Hi, Mike,

I set up two students and a teacher, in a course with a couple assignments in Moodle 1.8.

Your code rocks!

I made a couple minor changes to allow an administrator to see all the assignments from all the users in all the courses. I plan on doing the same for teachers, so they can see only the grades from their courses, and no one elses.

Does the new gradebook in 1.9 have your features? It takes so little to get so much. By the way, I changed your single line in the core code as well:

Instead of the code in README.txt

Print "<a href=http://www.southampton-city.ac.uk/moodle/grade/allmygrades.php target=_blank>All My Grades(across all my courses)</a>";

I used the following:

echo '<a href="allmygrades.php?course=' . $COURSE->id . '" target="allgrades">All My Grades(across all my courses)</a>';

This allows me to pass along the course id to the allgrades.php file, and to open only one new window called allgrades, instead of open a new one each time. I would prefer to use the Moodle function to open the pop up window, but that can be added later.

This will get me started learning how to generate the new functionalities that so many people seem to want, namely displaying grades from different courses. I will try to format the result into a kind of transcript for individual students and let you know how it turns out.

Thanks,

Andrew

Hi John,
I don't have any link, as I haven't seen anyone else doing this, but what we do is:

1. Create a template course with all the content and activities that students may need to use.
2. Back up the template course.
3. For each student, restore the template course to a new course with the new student's name ("Math Level 1 for Nathan", for example), and assign the student and teacher roles.
4. The teacher modifies the content and activities as needed for this particular student, hiding what will not be used.
   

The drawback, of course, is that the template course must be finished before you can give it to all the students. Adding something later means importing it into every single course.

By the way, my request above has already been met by another block!