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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.
I have installed the plug in and set the cron job but I still have the error "Time spent calculation task has not run yet", how can i fix the problem?
Thank you
I am a Moodle administrator and I have encountered the following problem these days... After the last update of the 'Course dedication' plugin 2023112000.
When I try to download an Excel with the connections of a specific participant (View session duration report), it shows me the connections of the authenticated user instead of the consulted user.
Can you help me please? I have not touched any of the code since the last update 2023112000.
Thank you very much for your help.
Where did you get the picture of that screen called course dedication configuration with dates, list of participants?
Besides records participant by participant doesn't have any time frame so is pretty unuseful too.
I just wonder why take the time to create an upgrade which entirely destroys the goal of a plugin...
or the plugin also includes a report source that allows you to build your own site-level report with the columns you would like to see:
https://docs.moodle.org/403/en/Custom_reports
You are a gentleman and a scholar Sir, thank you very much for such a speedy reply. Much appreciated.
Is there a way to add this plugin to all courses?
I think you are rigt, I want a sticky block. I already looked in to the source you linked to.
For the various options with blocks they provide step by step guides on how to do. But for the one I need it just states this:
"Making a block sticky in a category
A user with category rights might for instance wish to display a Remote RSS feeds block in all of the courses within a particular category, such as a Head of Science adding Science news feeds to the Physics, Biology and Chemistry courses."
But no directions on how to achieve it. Can you help?
Tanks again.
Flemming
Any idea why a course that used to show correctly the time spent by each student now seems to have been "reset" and counted again from zero?
could it be because it is affected by the general "logstore_standard | loglifetime" time settings ?