Moodle in English

This module was never really intended for staff checklists and does not have any functionality for copying checklists (other than the standard backup & restore functionality) or creating templates.

You might want to have a look at the Trackpad module ( http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=2867&filter=1 ) or possibly the Tracker module ( http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=1124&filter=1 ), as they might be closer to what you are looking for. My module is much more focussed on checklists that are created once by one person (the teacher) and checked off by lots of others (the students).

Hi

Huge fan of the checklist. However, do have a question.

We are using the Checklist for a tutorials course page. The idea is that a student and their tutor sits down, discusses the progress of the student, and then the tutor makes a record of targets via the checklist.

However, I'm starting to realise that the Checklist doesn't allow tutors to create checklists for individual students. And, in fact, as the course is using Groups, it doesn't seem to work with Groups either.

So, onto Plan B - get the students to complete the Checklist. However, if there's no initial list to check off, then it would appear they can't add their own entries from scratch.

Am I right/wrong? I was really hoping tutors could create checklists for individual students, but this doesn't appear to be the case.

Hope you can clarify!

Dan

where can I see or edit checklist:viewreports ?

Are you viewing this as a student or a teacher?

Teachers (unless you add the capability 'checklist:updateown') can't update their checklist, so they will always see an empty bar.

The various changes you made are there to intercept the log updates (e.g. 'view resource', 'edit wiki page') and use them to check-off the relevant item in the checklist, as well as to intercept the 'update grade' part of the 'quiz', 'assignment' and 'forum' activities, to use them to check-off items if the user's score is above the amount you set on the checklist. These only work if you have enabled the 'show course modules in checklist' option. If you manually update the checklist and click 'save', then you can override the automatic updates (you can disallow manual updates, from the settings page).

Once you've added the code into the 'add_to_log' function, then the last bit of it should look like this:

if (!$result) {
debugging('Error: Could not insert a new entry to the Moodle log', DEBUG_ALL);
}

require_once($CFG->dirroot.'/mod/checklist/autoupdate.php');  
checklist_autoupdate($courseid, $module, $action, $cm, $userid);
}

/** * Store user last access times - called when use enters a course or site * * Note: we use ADOdb code directly in this function to save some CPU * cycles here and there. They are simple operations not needing any * of the postprocessing performed by dmllib.php * * @param int $courseid, empty means site * @return void */

function user_accesstime_log($courseid=0) {

Similarly with the 'quiz', etc. changes, find the 'function' call I mentioned in the README, scroll down until you find the next line in the file that starts 'function', then scroll back up again until you find the '}' on its own a few lines above this.

The code needs to go before that closing '}'.

Hope that is clearer. I'll add some extra help into the plugin download (although that won't be avaiable until tomorrow, at the earliest).

1. This should work, but on checking the code, it only updates if you change one of the 'completion grades' then click save (these are the scores that the user needs to obtain to 'pass' the assignment, quiz or forum activities).

I've just checked in a version that will fix this (available midnight UTC), but it will require either creating a new checklist, or adding a new activity/resource to the course, then editing the checklist to trigger an update.

2. With the dates, click 'start editing dates', then whenever you edit or create a checklist item you can add a date to it by: unticking the 'disabled' box, selecting a date from the drop-down, clicking the 'add' or 'update' button. This is working fine with the latest version on my test server.

@Barbara:

OK, I'll look into it - I've added it to tracker here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-2762

Like you I have been very busy so I hate to possibly add something else for you to check on/fix but I think there is a bug that can cause the teachers checks to become incorrect.

I use a checklist that Updates by Student and Teacher. When I view the progress of a student and Click the Next button, the boxes for the teacher and the ghost check marks for the student are shown for the student you just left. In other words they do not update and show info for the current student. The Save and show next button exhibits the same behaviour.

I was using a version from back in December but just updated to the current version available on Feb 5. Both versions work the same way for me.

Thanks for your time and effort on making this very handy module and block.

To update - the checklist now respects both the hidden status of activities and the grouping status (if 'group members only' is selected).

I've tested the new code and I'm confident that it is all OK, but the grouping code was quite fiddly to implement, so there may be some small bugs lurking around.

Whenever a checklist is updated / created, it should automatically go back through all the log entries and check-off any items that should now be checked-off. Item checking-off should also happen (in the background) whether or not the item is shown in the list (unless students have manually checked-off the item, in which case, only that checklist will be updated).

Can you do a quick experiment - find an item for which there is a 'completion score' option, set a score, 'save completion scores', then set it back to 'Any'. Let me know if that updates the check-marks for the whole checklist to what they should be.

I've added the 'only import from current section' request to the list here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-2786 - I can't promise a fix date, as the requests are currently coming in much faster than I can sort them out (even with the half-term holiday last week!).

Yes, the icons are the wrong way around in the latest Moodle 1.9 version - got myself confused with a double-negative.  Fix checked in - ready to download immediately.

Michelle, just leave the setting at 'Any' (the default) and forums will be checked-off when a student posts a reply or a discussion, and assignments will be checked-off on submission.

Thank you Dave that did the trick off course!

Peter

Hi Dave,

First of all I want to compliment you on a terrific module. I can see a lot of usefull purposes for checklists in courses.

I have a question regarding the usage of the checklist block. I have a course with separate groups (forced) and in every group I have a different teacher and when I logon as one of those teachers I see all students in the checklist block. Just to be sure there are no inherit capability-issues, I have forced the accessallgroups for the teacher role in the course to prohibit, but with the "normal" forced groups course settings this obviously does not need to be done.

Am I missing something here or does the block always show all the students in the course, regardless of (separate) group course settings?

When I enter the checklist activity as a teacher, I only see the students in my own groups, this works as expected

With highest regards,

Sam

Our company is very thankful to your plugin and i am wondering if it's possible to add a button that sends an email to teachers upon checklist completion ?

This is going to make your plugin the best plugin in the world.

Can you do that?

Thank you so much!

I have another question!

i set my checklist to update by TEACHER ONLY, the grades get updated in the gradebook no problem. but when i try to export the checklist to see what was ticked-off  all the items are empty ?? i understand that it shows what was ticked off by students, but in my case only the teacher can update it choosing YES/NO, when the teacher is done with the checklists of his students. he goes to the gradebook and like i said the grades are there but if he tries to export it to see what he ticked off unfortunately all the fields are empty!   PLEASE Help ME with this issue as i already introduced alot of people to your AMAZING PLUGIN and we really appreciate what you do.

Thank you

BTW The 'email on complete' request is in tracker here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-2770 if you want to watch it.

I want the teacher to select YES or NO and no blank option, because in our company the teacher has to finish all checklist with yes and no before he submits to his Superior. is there anyway i can remove that blank option ?

Can we have the comments in a drop down menu instead of a text field input ?

i personaly think it's gonna make it easy on the teacher to submit comments when he has more than 200 students in the system.

something like Good job/ Not Good enough!  in a drop down menu

so we don't have to type it more than 200 times. Thanks Davo!

I've set up our checklists where updates are only made by teachers and teacher can add comments.  Currently, when students view the checklist they see teacher comments in the following format:

UserID: "comment"

I'd like for the checklist to display the comment only and not display the userid.  I'm not very familiar with php code. After doing a bit of searching it appears I need to modify the locallib.php file however I see numerous instances of userid.  Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Todd

'email teachers on checklist completion' is nearly done (with a couple of minor bugs still to fix), after that I'll either have a look through the tracker bugs list (for this & my other plugins), or start work on another plugin (or two) I've got in the pipeline.

Later in the week I've got some marking to do and some contract work (which I'm awaiting further information on, hence having a little spare time to work on my own plugins). Will have to wait and see what I get done ...

I've just checked in a small fix that might be related to the problem you were seeing with the page reloading (download a new copy and it will have the fix).

The items that are crossed out are activities that are hidden in the course, so they won't appear on the checklist until you unhide them. This is by design, as students should not be able to see even the title of activities that a teacher has hidden.

Thanks guys for taking the trouble to reply. I reinstalled but get the same issue.

The error logs :

[Sun Jun 12 08:34:31 2011] [error] [client 83.67.63.78] File does not exist: /home/stlouisg/public_html/thecareersroom.com/500.shtml, referer: http://***********view.php?id=4

[Sun Jun 12 08:34:31 2011] [error] [client 83.67.63.78] SoftException in Application.cpp:256: File "/home/stlouisg/public_html/thecareersroom.com/MOODLE/mod/checklist/view.php" is writeable by group, referer: http://***********view.php?id=4

Please Davo Find us a solution for this locking issue you ve got what it takes to establish it. hehe

Good day sir.

You did a wonderful Job David. i have two issues to address:

me and my college are both teachers, and when we use the comments button, it overrides the previous comment. we both tried to change the code to add comments next to eachother instead of overriding eachother's comments. No luck ! what can you do! we are not good enough in php haha

we believe it has something to do with this  part:

Could you please advise.

$foundcomment = false;
                if ($comments) {
                    if (array_key_exists($item->id, $comments)) {
                        $comment =  $comments[$item->id];
                        $foundcomment = true;
                        echo ' <span class="teachercomment">&nbsp;';
                        if ($comment->commentby) {
                            echo '<a href="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/user/view.php?id='.$comment->commentby.'&amp;course='.$this->course->id.'">'.fullname($commentusers[$comment->commentby]).'</a>: ';
                        }
                        if ($editcomments) {
                            echo '<input type="text" name="teachercomment['.$item->id.']" value="'.s($comment->text).'" />';
                        } else {
                            echo s($comment->text);
                        }
                        echo '&nbsp;</span>';
                    }
                }
                if (!$foundcomment && $editcomments) {
                    echo '&nbsp;<input type="text" name="teachercomment['.$item->id.']" />';
                }

Second issue is : you know how when we click on add End date button and you see the date on the right side of each sentence ?

It is going to be very helpful to use the same button by default to show date when we do yes and no. because we have 3 reviews a year and time stamp will be SUPER to make difference

Hi Davo,

thanks for your fast and clear reply.

@1: Yes, the trade-off is clear to me. I am just asking because I think the progress bar module does it the way without using a scheduled task (if I see it right ). And I was wondering if such update every minute will influence the performance of a system with many user.

@2: Sorry for the un-clear question. I was only talking about 2.0 and I was not aware that you actually do it this way. And another sorry - I misunderstood how your mod is working: I thought it ignores the contitins which have been set for the related activities and just uses the ones in the autoupdate.php

Thank you for the really great work!

Flotter

Many thanks for the speedy reply - very much appreciated (especially with everything else you seem to have going on!). I've had a look through the course log which, among others, shows the following entries:

As you can see, there's an entry for 'lightboxgallery view' which results in that activity being correctly ticked off as completed; however, there's also the entry for 'turnitintool view' which, in theory, should trigger completion based on the criteria I've set up in autoupdate.php, but doesn't. Additionally, the 'assignment upload' entry relates to an UploadPDF assignment - but again this doesn't trigger completion. BTW, we've also implemented the core modifications to remove the 60-second delay in completion display.

I certainly don't want to distract you from other, more pressing issues - but really would appreciate any insight you might have, as we'd love to make Checklist available to users in the next semester (but could only do so if it supports completion of all activities).

Many thanks again.

PS - sorry, forgot to mention: Moodle 1.9.9, WAMP