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Course dedication
NOTE: This plugin has a new maintainer.
Thanks to the University of Canterbury for sponsoring the upgrade work to support Moodle 4.0 and the new report builder API.
Introduction
This block allows to see the estimated dedication time to a Moodle course by the participants of the course.
How dedication time is estimated?
Time is estimated based in the concepts of Session and Session duration applied to Moodle's log entries:
- Click: every time that a user access to a page in Moodle a log entry is stored.
- Session: set of two or more consecutive clicks in which the elapsed time between every pair of consecutive clicks does not overcome an established maximum time.
- Session duration: elapsed time between the first and the last click of the session.
Features
This block is intended to be used only by teachers, however the block can be configured to show dedication time to students too.
Teachers can use a tool to analyse dedication time within a course. The tool provides three reporting methods:
- Dedication time of the course: calculates total dedication time, mean dedication time and connections per day for each student, which you can filter by course group if required.
- Dedication of a student: detailed sessions for a student with start date & time, duration and ip.
- Report builder source: The plugin includes a custom report builder source to allow for site-level reporting to be generated.
Credits
Original developed by Aday Talavera, CICEI at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University
Updated to support Moodle 1.9 - Moodle 3.X by Borja Rubio Reyes.
Support for Moodle 4.0 was sponsored by the University of Canterbury.
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Contributors
In the latest version, all contributed transalations were lost, and only spanish translation is in the AMOS right now.
It seems that your unit does not recover data in Moodle 2.7.
Being tested by me in a way, this valuable block no output.
Have you tested on 2.7?
thank you
Daniel
Do you propose we quickly your block for Moodle 2.7?
Block for Moodle 2.6 is no correct.
Thank you in advance.
Daniel
Do you have a test version of your block for Moodle 2.7?
I am willing to test it on my new site into production.
Thank you for your work.
Daniel
Buenos Dias Aday!
To enable "legacy login" go to Plugins -> Logging -> Manage log stores and ensure that "Legacy log" its enabled. This change will enable logging only after enabling it, so if your course already started, course dedication calculations won't be accurate.
In the future we will update the plugin to use these new log system to calculate course dedication.
A problem I've had with the supercool dedication block was that I needed to filter the results by group.
So I have added support for result filtering in my fork of the dedication block using the dropdown table filter (it's under the GPL2 license)
source for ddtf.js is here: https://github.com/rbayliss/Dropdown-Table-Filter
My repo with the commit is here: https://bitbucket.org/cirrus3d/moodle_block_dedication/branch/add_result_filtering
You're welcome to try it and let me know if it works for you.
Does anyone know why the Course Dedication Time = Now? I have 2.8 and had a developer work the bugs. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
The upgrade to Moodle 2.8 new logging system has been done and soon I will publish the new version.
I have enabled legacy logging but the block is saying there are no participants for the course. Is this an issue relating to running the block on 2.8 or something I'm doing wrong?
Many thanks
Thanks