Added Extension to Moodle :Proposal Add-on

Added Extension to Moodle :Proposal Add-on

by Conrad Taylor -
Number of replies: 3

Prospectus:   PAL (Personal Action Log) Module for Moodle, with additional Extensions

 

This system is gear more to fulltime students (but will work for any learner)

This is an outline of additional functionalities I would like to provide via moodle for administering student achievements, Application for learning support, Timetable of schedule sessions, additional functionalities to current journal, Induction checklist, Personal Action Plan , Progress Record (students progression on the completion of each course), institutional calendar and finally subject/course reviews for parents .  Three developers (1 lecturer (2 students) from the City of Wolverhampton College will work on this part-time from April.  Comments appreciated. 

General Description
This module is designed for administering students progress and achievements.  There are nine parts/sub-modules to this module:

PAL Administration (under this link the following features are available )

·        Per course enter modules (a list of modules to be study on that course)

2.      Set Reminder Period (action plan reminder)

·        Assign Document Admin

·        Enter help files into system (Guidance notes)

Add questions to the question bank/ type of questions (the pal will contain questions for students to complete, to make the system dynamic, questions are entered into a question bank, and are retrieve based on the document being viewed )

Add entries into improvement table and Evidence for target setting (Improvement table a list of areas where students needs to improve on, i.e. maths, spelling etc.. , Evidence of target setting a list of evidence used to help set targets)

Assign document setting (who get what copies of document)

Add

Edit

Delete   (from the features listed above)

At the start of each year each course gets allocated a standard time table per course, without enrichment/support sessions, personal tutors or faculty admin should be able to select the desire course and enter the course timetable template.

After registration, PT will assign students to their groups (personal tutoring groups).

The system will them mail each student their personal tutor details and partnership agreement and absent line detail

Additional User Information captureComplete their current Qualification

Emergency contact details

Medical conditions the institutions/tutors should know about

Personal Tutor can upload scanned certificates per user

Students can apply for learning support at any part of the system (set as default side block), the system will mail the application to all relevant parties according to document settings. 

 
 

Function 

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Note: Maybe once IC is enable students cannot do any thing until IC is completed. Once the student completes the IC, the system will flag this when the PT next logged in. 

 

 

PT then checks of target met with yes/no, if no the system copy the target as a new action and prompt for set date,

 

 

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NOTE: Rights apply throughout 

 

Student select module them write comments

 

NOTE: Benefit and issues can be discuss with individual/ tutor group

Reports can be post home to parents depending on learners age.

This ends my over view, allot as been mention here, will take me some time, but will get there, currently developing under 1.5.

 

 

 

 

 

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In reply to Conrad Taylor

Re: Added Extension to Moodle :Proposal Add-on

by N Hansen -
Hi Conrad-This sounds like a really nice idea. Here are some questions for you:

1-Will the timetable be the same for all students in a course, or will it be possible to set it differently for different students (e.g. in a course with rolling enrollments).

2-This may seem like a silly question, but what exactly do you mean by module in your statement, "Per course enter modules (a list of modules to be study on that course)"? This use of the word "module" I have noticed a lot in British English but it is not really one we use in the American educational system so frequently, and so I'm not 100% certain what exactly it means. Does it correspond to "week" or "topic" in the current Moodle structure?
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Re: Added Extension to Moodle :Proposal Add-on

by Conrad Taylor -

Hi Hansen

In response to your questions

Q1: "Will the timetable be the same for all students in a course, or will it be possible to set it differently for different students (e.g. in a course with rolling enrollments"

A:

Originally the course template is the same for all students within a particulart course, but each student can modify their time table with enrichments to suit individual, but students cannnot amend the original template set, thefore any additions will ofto be planned around the set timetable.

Q2: "what exactly do you mean by module in your statement, "Per course enter modules (a list of modules to be study on that course)"? "

A:

In British educational system, a course can contain a list of modules, For example if you enrolled on a degree course example Bsc Hons Computer Science, within this course there a list of modules, for each modules the student must achieved at least a past in order to gain the full qualification.

Some people may state that a module could be a course within itself. For example a person may only want to study a module of that course, which in other words make it a course.

At present we deliver courses with modules, to over come trhis in moodle, each module becomes a course.

Hope this answer your questions.

Conrad

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Re: Added Extension to Moodle :Proposal Add-on

by Conrad Taylor -

One question for the moodle community, I am creating add-ons to moodle(see original post), but just one question, does any one know of any open source software which is appropriate for creating class timetable preferrable using PHP and MySql.

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