I am having an issue with gradebooks becoming far too wide. As discussed here, I think it would be good to automatically categorise grades by month (then the months can be collapsed).
I am thinking that the cleanest way to do this would be a block which doesn't actually do anything if added to a course, but has a cronjob which runs regularly to do this categorisation. There is an issue that if I hide the block (the whole thing via manage blocks, not just one instance) the cronjob won't run, but if I don't hide the block it will show up on lists and possibly confuse teachers.
Is this really the best solution or am I missing something?
Thanks,
Mike
Well I've gone ahead and written this block, it finds all uncategorised grades and puts them into categories for each month. It also sets aggregatesubcats=1 for the course categories so that the course total is not effected by the categorisation. It runs every 5 mins on cron, but will take quite a while first time (if you've got lots of uncategorised grades that is) but takes a negligable amount of time thereafter.
Still got the issue of it showing up on add block lists though
Mike
Still got the issue of it showing up on add block lists though
Mike
In reply to Mike Worth
Re: Automatically categorising grades with a block's cronjob
by Paul Holden -
Have you tried adding the following method to your block class:
function applicable_formats() {
return (array('all' => false));
}
That should prevent it showing up in any add block lists.
function applicable_formats() {
return (array('all' => false));
}
That should prevent it showing up in any add block lists.
In reply to Paul Holden
Re: Automatically categorising grades with a block's cronjob
by Mike Worth -
Just what I was looking for, thanks a lot
Mike
PS: have uploaded to tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-970
Mike
PS: have uploaded to tracker: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-970