Hi!
I need to have a course in Moodle, where some number of people would work on the common topic, and a teacher should have a possibility to assign a grade to the group.
Could you please advise me, whether I should adapt some existing Moodle plugin to my goals, or to develop it by myself?
I will appreciate any response!
Thanks in advance!
Unfortunately, team support is still lacking in Moodle even though it has been requested and discussed quite a few times. See, for example:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=52134#239632
So, if you really need it, you have to hack whatever activities you need to use to provide the required functionality.
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=52134#239632
So, if you really need it, you have to hack whatever activities you need to use to provide the required functionality.
Thanks for your response. However, since I do need to have team-based courses in half a year, maybe you will give me any hint from what should I start. I mean, is there any way to create Moodle plugins? Maybe there is ome way to develop add-ins? How Moodle can be extended without changing too much working code?
As you may guess from the fact that nobody programmed it yet, it ain't trivial, although it maybe as well that nobody needed it badly enough so far. There is a way to create Moodle plugins, Moodle is wonderfully modular, but implementing teams requires some modifications of the core of Moodle, and most likely, all activity modules must do some adjustment to support them. To gauge the issues, search for discussions related to teams in the forums as well as in tracker.
What you could do is just use the existing groups, and add a new assignment type that supports group-grading. Would that be enough?