Hi all.
This an echo of a misrouted message of mine in developper forum... (was not the right place...actually).
I just pushed in a fist beta of an old work of 2007 that was just quite ready to run on 1.9. The work was handled with Paris VIII University and served as basis of a master degree in Ethnomethodology in 2006 and Hypermedia strategy in 2007.
The coursetracking/ajaxtracking module/filter pair of plugins provides an efficiant technique to get a "fine grain tracking" of readers of your teaching material in Moodle.
Although mostly tested on "Web page resources", we are now testing how the dynamic markers work in the edited content within other activity modules.
the course tracking activity let authors drop small "markers" (as images) in the content of an on-line resource and setup some tracking parameters on them.
The markers will be dynamically converted by the ajaxtracking filter as active tracking transducers for students, or microreport portlets for teachers, telling them the amount of access hits, read hits and explicit positive feedback collected.
The markers really make a measurement of what is being read by students, as being aware of their location in the browser. They actually are able to detect they are staying in a visible or non visible part of the screen.
The tracking system measures the effective reading time of each transducer, and will give full reports of those collected tracks.
complete documentation is at : http://docs.moodle.org/Coursetracking_module
The beta is released in CVS, and plugin entry has been added to our plugin base.
There are possibly some situations to check as last fixes where exclusively performed on FF and first developement was handled under IE7. IE8 remains untested yet, specially for the behaviour of the Ajax part of the code.
Thanks for attention.
This was our 2009 gift for the Moodle contrib community !
Very Happy New Year !!
Valery Fremaux