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Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Domenico Pontari - torsdag den 17. februar 2005, 05:05

I developed a new module that can calculate the session time for a user and to declare the amount of hours that the user studied offline.

This first version has to be tested for results and functionalities.

Fair

register_module.zip

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved W Page - torsdag den 17. februar 2005, 06:57

Hi Domenico!

Is this for v1.4.x or v1.5??

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Sami Parvez - torsdag den 17. februar 2005, 13:18

How much it will cost in Indian rupees to register. I Know PHP and MySQl Little bit can i will be utilizing it effectively.

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Domenico Pontari - lørdag den 26. februar 2005, 16:35

I corrected some problem of the previous version.

This is the new version under GPL license.

Bye,

Fair

register_module.zip

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Martin Dougiamas - lørdag den 26. februar 2005, 20:40

Interesting. Can you describe the approach you are using for this module? How are you making your calculations?

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Domenico Pontari - fredag den 4. marts 2005, 19:51

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

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved W Page - torsdag den 3. marts 2005, 06:38

Hi Domenico!!

Can you post an image of how the module looks when installed?

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Domenico Pontari - fredag den 4. marts 2005, 20:08

This is what you see when you are student:

example for students

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

example for teachers

Bye,

Fair

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved W Page - lørdag den 5. marts 2005, 00:20

Hi Domenico!

Thanks for responding.

Just wanted to ask the following:

Is there a way to know the time a student visited each type of resource/activity?
Can the results be exported to Excel and then analyzed?
Is there a way for students to see a graphical display of their time off and online?
Can the "offline" feature be togged on or off by course or resource/activity?
Can a teacher upload an "offline" time for some or all the students in a course.
- For Example, let up say there was a classroom activity that all or some of the students participated in that relates to the course. Could a teacher just upload the time into each affected student's file?
Are you considering upgrading the mod to v1.5?

Thanks again for posting the screenshot.

WP1

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Domenico Pontari - søndag den 6. marts 2005, 23:14

Ok, step by step:

> Is there a way to know the time a student visited each type of resource/activity?

Yes, there is; but I didn't develop it. Register activity takes data from logs table in Moodle DB, where there is also the information about which resourse / activity you visited, but I don't care about this in my module, because I only want to solve the session problem.

> Can the results be exported to Excel and then analyzed?

Yes, using Copy & Paste from HTML table to Excel. It may be difficult converting data from Moodle format to Excel format, so I include here an example.

> Is there a way for students to see a graphical display of their time off and online?

No, there isn't. But if you export data to Excel, you'll be able to create a graphic (that is static, and you need to update it)

> Can the "offline" feature be togged on or off by course or resource/activity?

No, it can't. But I'll introduce this feature at soon at possible.

> Can a teacher upload an "offline" time for some or all the students in a course.

No, he can't. Each student must certify itself.

For Example, let up say there was a classroom activity that all or some of the students participated in that relates to the course. Could a teacher just upload the time into each affected student's file?

It could be an interesting future feature. Do you need it?

> Are you considering upgrading the mod to v1.5?

Yes, I'm. We're using 1.4.2 version, but we'll challange to 1.5 version for the next year; so I need to "upgrade" my activity module.

Bye,

Fair

Exporting_session_data_from_Moodle_to_Excel.xls

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Domenico Pontari - torsdag den 17. februar 2005, 17:06

It's for v1.4.x.

Sorry, but is there a different management of activity modules in v1.5 respect to v1.4.x?

Fair

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved John O'Reilly - mandag den 30. maj 2005, 20:53

Hi Domenico,

Will you be producing a version for moodle 1.5?

John

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Domenico Pontari - tirsdag den 31. maj 2005, 15:13

Yes, I'll be.

Anyway I test that the actual version works well with 1.5 too.

The next version will have also more features than this one.

Bye,

Fair

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved John O'Reilly - tirsdag den 31. maj 2005, 17:49

Thanks Domenico,

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

John

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved John O'Reilly - tirsdag den 14. juni 2005, 16:16

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

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Domenico Pontari - onsdag den 15. juni 2005, 22:03

Sorry John,

I'm abroad at the moment, can't answer you before 3th of July 'cause here I haven't my computer.

I'll answer in 20 days.

Bye,

Fair

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved John O'Reilly - onsdag den 15. juni 2005, 22:58

Thanks Domenico,

Look foward to hearing from you then.

enjoy your trip!

John

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Domenico Pontari - fredag den 29. juli 2005, 02:18

Hi John,

here I attach my new register for Moodle 1.5; I corrected some bugs and I developed new features.

Release Notes:

I verified XHTML 1.0 Transitional compatibility.
If you use register in a metacourse, it'll calculate logs for all courses in that category. Otherwise it counts only logs of that course.
You can switch off user's offline certification.
I added online help pages.
I used code comments, so that you can create a developer document with PhpDocumentator.

Best regards,

Fair

register_for_Moodle_1.5.zip

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Philippe Ramette - fredag den 26. august 2005, 20:52

Hi Domenico,

Where is the help file ? which folder ?

Where is the online help pages ?

I look in your latest version

register_for_Moodle_1.5.zip

Is it possible to see a real exemple on your site.

thank you

Philippe

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Domenico Pontari - lørdag den 27. august 2005, 01:53

Hi Philippe,

All help files are in lang/en/help/register and they are organized following Moodle help pages standard: it means that when you open the page to edit or create a new Register, you can click on the question mark to obtain some other information.

> Is it possible to see a real exemple on your site.

I can't show you a real example for privacy matters (all users in my platform are real users), sorry.

Bye,

Fair

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Julian Ridden - lørdag den 27. august 2005, 10:27

A Real example has been installed on the Playpen

Full guest access is enabled, you can create your own login or you can log in as teacher:teacher to see the teacher view as well.

It is called the "Time Register" in the playpen

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Jon Bolton - fredag den 21. oktober 2005, 23:21

Hi Domenico - a nice module, thanks! Is there a way to alter the way the list of all students is sorted? It is currently sorted on surname, but I would prefer to have mine sorted on most recent log in (like the participants page).

Any help would be much appreciated

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Domenico Pontari - lørdag den 22. oktober 2005, 00:11

Sorry Jon,

if you want to do this, you have to modify the code. Anyway it should not be too difficult.

Bye,

Fair

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Rhonda Goetz - lørdag den 22. oktober 2005, 21:44

I need to export this data. Can you put in an option for that or is there another way to do it? I love this module. Just what I was looking for!

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Domenico Pontari - mandag den 24. oktober 2005, 04:06

Hay Rhonda,

I described above how to export data. Do you think that is too difficult?

Bye,

Fair

PS: do you think that is better changing register in a block module instead of an activity module?

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Rhonda Goetz - tirsdag den 25. oktober 2005, 22:54

Yes I can copy paste, I was looking for an export button...

Also, is there someway to show the data based on group? That would really help me.

Thanks, Rhonda

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved juan pablo ramirez - fredag den 4. juli 2008, 05:54

I am also looking for integration with groups. I have to say that Domenico has done a great job!!! Bravo Domencico mille gracie.
I use in in moodle 1.9+ and works just perfect. The only problemi is that we have almost 300 students in each course separated in groups of 10 people and the register module shows the aaaaallll together.
Is there a way to separate these stats in groups?

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Xinghua Chen - mandag den 11. august 2008, 00:21

Hi Juan!

" I use in in moodle 1.9+ and works just perfect."

Really? I couldn't find where the get_record function defined. And "Course module is incorrect" error message on screen all the time.

Any suggestion for appreciated.

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved juan pablo ramirez - mandag den 11. august 2008, 20:06

Just download the register for 1.8 module and put the folder "register" in the "mod" folder of moodle.

Try it on a clean instalation. I just tested it on 1.9.2 and works smoothly. I now am trying to display the group of each user...

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved juan pablo ramirez - mandag den 11. august 2008, 20:07

I need the exact same things.... can anyone give a clue where to start from?

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Re: Register Module to solve logout problem and session time calculation

ved Xinghua Chen - torsdag den 14. august 2008, 04:48

Thanks for reply,Juan!

I have installed the register for 1.8 edtion on my moodle site, As you say it works smoothly.

I need more functions on my situation, Such as per year/month/group/student learning time statistics and can be downloaded as moodle download formats. Accordding to the learning time calc the online learning score of each student etc.

So there is much things base the register for moodle 1.8 edition we need to do.

Hope we can do something more! For it's open!

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