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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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After installing the block_dedication plugin and when I am trying to get time spent on the course, and putting the start date and end date same, I am getting a "Division by zero" Error in moodle 4.1 but when I install the block_dedication version 3.9 in moodle 3.9, I am not getting any error. It is shown below
Total dedication: None
Mean dedication: None
Any idea
I have installed the plugin and now I see the block say:
Dedication
Time spent calculation task has not run yet.
What should I be doing now in order to have this task run and generate the report?
1. When I want to obtain a report with the time spent on the course and I use the filter (up right), it is displayed but if I click on any of the filter options it closes automatically.
2. If I click on the wheel of a certain user and choose the option "see session duration report" go to the report page but does not allow downloading the report. It returns the following error: A required parameter (userid) was missing.
Any solution? Thank you
Am I doing something wrong? Is there any way to set the time between clicks higher than 150, so I can calculate the real time using this block? Seems to work better than the other Course Dedication tool we are using on our Moodle, but can't calculate the real time without raising the limit higher than 150, I think.