On courses with a lot of activities, wich students have to work with over several days, my students forget wich activity they already have done. Then they have to look at the grading page.
In my view it should be possible to display direct on the course page wether an activity is done or not. It could simply the word "done" be displayed behind the activity name.
I've made a posting on tracker for that.
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12508
New feature: Display "done/ not done" behind the activity name on the course page
by Eckart Stoermer -
Number of replies: 7
In reply to Eckart Stoermer
Re: New feature: Display "done/ not done" behind the activity name on the course page
by Jason Mellen -
I agree that tracking task status could be useful for larger courses.
Another thought though would be a module for listing tasks/action items for a topic, week, or in general. Often there are things to do for a course (reading offline material for instance) that also needs to be tracked by students. A task module could use the API to automatically list activities in the course/section as well as other assignments added by the teacher.
When Activities are completed, the new events system (or perhaps a gradebook scan) would automatically mark that task as complete. Other, non-activity items, would have a check box that the student could mark themselves.
Of course an added feature would allow for connecting this data to other task systems via RSS, ical, etc.
Thoughts?
Another thought though would be a module for listing tasks/action items for a topic, week, or in general. Often there are things to do for a course (reading offline material for instance) that also needs to be tracked by students. A task module could use the API to automatically list activities in the course/section as well as other assignments added by the teacher.
When Activities are completed, the new events system (or perhaps a gradebook scan) would automatically mark that task as complete. Other, non-activity items, would have a check box that the student could mark themselves.
Of course an added feature would allow for connecting this data to other task systems via RSS, ical, etc.
Thoughts?
In reply to Jason Mellen
Re: New feature: Display "done/ not done" behind the activity name on the course page
by Eckart Stoermer -
Your suggestions would result in a kind of a dynamic course page, which shows only the tasks not done?
Students will use it instead of the course page?
In my view it seems to be easier to have this information direct on the course page, perhaps only by showing a small icon.
Students will use it instead of the course page?
In my view it seems to be easier to have this information direct on the course page, perhaps only by showing a small icon.
In reply to Eckart Stoermer
Re: New feature: Display "done/ not done" behind the activity name on the course page
by Jason Mellen -
Actually my original thinking is that this would appear on the main course page like a label resource does.
This is how I see it would look:
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TOPIC 2
Tasks:
[ ] Read Chapter 1
[ ] Comment on Discussion Forum
[X] Turn in Assignment 1
Discussion Forum
Assignment 1
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Maybe the task list would link to the modules but that is an option.
or a variation adding an icon to modules could be:
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TOPIC 2
Tasks:
[ ] Read Chapter 1
Discussion Forum
[X]Assignment 1
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This is how I see it would look:
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TOPIC 2
Tasks:
[ ] Read Chapter 1
[ ] Comment on Discussion Forum
[X] Turn in Assignment 1
Discussion Forum
Assignment 1
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Maybe the task list would link to the modules but that is an option.
or a variation adding an icon to modules could be:
-----------------
TOPIC 2
Tasks:
[ ] Read Chapter 1
Discussion Forum
[X]Assignment 1
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In reply to Jason Mellen
Re: New feature: Display "done/ not done" behind the activity name on the course page
by Eckart Stoermer -
I see. This would bring a clear view on what has to be done.
Do you want to show only the next task or all undone tasks?
I think it's better to show the next or the next few tasks to do.
Do you want to show only the next task or all undone tasks?
I think it's better to show the next or the next few tasks to do.
In reply to Eckart Stoermer
Re: New feature: Display "done/ not done" behind the activity name on the course page
by Chardelle Busch -
Please see the conditional activities forum. The current Activity Locking hack will do this. Conditional activities are planned to be fully implemented in Moodle 2.0.
In reply to Chardelle Busch
Re: New feature: Display "done/ not done" behind the activity name on the course page
by Christian Eckhardt -
I rather liked the original idea to mark activities as not done / attempted / completed, which might be done with a small colored dot in green, orange or red behind every activity. I think this would be a useful feature.
In reply to Christian Eckhardt
Re: New feature: Display "done/ not done" behind the activity name on the course page
by Eckart Stoermer -
I agree.
Activity Locking is much more complex and it will not fit to every course. A simple icon will do a good job in every course.
Activity Locking is much more complex and it will not fit to every course. A simple icon will do a good job in every course.