Course dedication

Blocks ::: block_dedication

Maintained by

Dan Marsden,

Catalyst IT

This block allows to calculate estimated dedication time of participants within a course.

Latest release: 6 months

6575 sites

1k downloads

211 fans

Current versions available: 5

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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

Dan Marsden (Lead maintainer)

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Catalyst IT

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Borja Rubio Reyes: previous author

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Aday Talavera: previous maintainer

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Comments

Kyriakos Terzopoulos
Mon, 6 Oct 2014, 3:41 AM
Hi all,
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.
Alan Davis
Thu, 26 Feb 2015, 1:59 AM
Hello,

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.
Aday Talavera
Thu, 26 Feb 2015, 6:03 PM
@Alan DavisThat is an small bug in the code.
The upgrade to Moodle 2.8 new logging system has been done and soon I will publish the new version.
Andy McKay
Thu, 12 Mar 2015, 8:15 PM
I am running Moodle 2.8.3 and have installed the course dedication block on to a pre-existing course, that users are already enrolled upon and have already completed activities for.
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
Ramtari Arriaga
Thu, 19 Mar 2015, 2:50 AM
Hi Aday, I want to install the block in my Moodle 2.8.3 but i would like to implement the upgrade to Moodle 2.8. When will you publish the new version?

Thanks
Alberto Brandi
Sun, 19 Apr 2015, 5:17 PM
hello i installed this block enabled legacy but not appear the course dedication configuration (3rd screenshot) and appear internal error
i have moodle 2.8 can you help me please???
@Andy McKay how do you install it?

thanks to all
Aday Talavera
Mon, 20 Apr 2015, 5:01 PM
Hi everyone,

I have been really busy latest month and didn't have enough time to upload 2.7/2.8 upgraded version. This version uses correctly new Moodle log system and legacy login isn't needed to be enabled.

You can download new version from here https://bitbucket.org/ciceidev/moodle_block_dedication/get/MOODLE_27_STABLE.zip until I publish it here.
Alberto Brandi
Wed, 22 Apr 2015, 4:18 AM
Hi Aday in my report i have only 0 0 0
cesar teixeira
Mon, 7 Sept 2015, 5:14 AM
Hi Aday.

Do you have any idea about releasing a compatible version to 2.9?

I'm already running version 2.9 and your course dedication block would be very useful.

Good work, your block is very good and and useful to many of us.

Best regards.

César Teixeira
William Kane
Tue, 1 Dec 2015, 2:05 AM
I was trying to add this to my Moodle 2.8 server, and I keep getting the same error: Invalid Plugin Name.
Help suggests I need to give the root directory.
Any suggestions?
Aday Talavera
Tue, 1 Dec 2015, 3:18 AM
The plugin should be installed in blocks/dedication folder.
Huseyn Hoca
Mon, 1 Feb 2016, 10:58 PM
Thank you so much Aday.
Joseph Liaw
Tue, 12 Apr 2016, 9:44 PM
THANK YOU Aday for this amazing plugin! Extremely useful for many classroom teachers, and very helpful for the K-12 sector where having this type of data is helpful when conversing with parents....turns the detailed logs of Moodle into useable data to see how much time a student has invested, their work habits, and comparison to course average which is very helpful when coaching / mentoring students....keep up the great work!!!
Carol Janssen
Mon, 30 May 2016, 7:34 PM
Hi is there a reason I cannot see the "download" button?
Chiara Bandelloni
Thu, 11 Aug 2016, 12:58 AM
Hello,
when I try to dowload data in Excel format, the file can't be open. It reports "I/O general error".
Can I fix it someway?

Thanks in advance