Assignment submission and marked assessment logs

Assignment submission and marked assessment logs

by Laine Phillips -
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Hi, early this year our college had our IT contracted develop new logs for our Moodle site - one for assignments submitted each day on the site and one for assessments marked each day on the site.

We did this because in New Zealand the Qualifications Authority only allows certain programs to be used as student databases at tertiary institutions, and as such we are unable to use the Moodle grading system to record student results. We have to transfer results from assessments submitted through Moodle (they can also be submited in hard copy by students) into our student database. Each day an assigned staff member transfers the info. The 'submission' log is used to ensure we are always up to date with where students are at in their learning, as  we send regular reminder emails saying where they should be at in there studies that are specific to their progress (rather than being generic emails). As there can be a delay of 3 weeks between submission and marking, this lets us know exactly where students are up to at any one time.

The logs have proved difficult. We know they are working 95% of the time, but there are occasions where the submissions or marked assessments are missed on the logs. What I am wondering is if these logs would be useful to other institutions, and if so where and how I should upload the code that has been developed thus far for others to see and work on to get rid of the bugs.

Smiles

Laine

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Re: Assignment submission and marked assessment logs

by Stuart Mealor -
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Hi Laine

If you are using MySQL there is a custom report generator developed by Tim Hunt

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Custom_SQL_queries_report

so you could perhaps add code to the contributed code for the Moodle Docs page.

Mind you, I think it should be working 100% rather than 95% before you encourage others to use it.

Alternatively you might attach code here and let other people review / test / susggest.

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Re: Assignment submission and marked assessment logs

by Laine Phillips -

Thanks Stuart. I thought there might be a seperate area where people develop code. Is this not the case?

I had a look at the link you posted, but I am not sure it helps in this case, so I have asked our IT guy if he can post the code here.

Smiles

Laine