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:
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1k downloads
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Current versions available: 5

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)
Borja Rubio Reyes: previous author
Aday Talavera: previous maintainer
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Comments

  • Luis Ayala
    Tue, 28 Nov 2017, 9:08 PM
    Saludos.
    He instalado la última versión de la herramienta Dediación al Curso en mi plataforma Moodle 3.0. El módulo aparece perfectamente en el curso de prueba con el que estoy aprendiendo a usarlo y me indica el tiempo de conexión cuando entro con un perfil de alumno de prueba. Como profesor también puedo ver mis tiempos de dedicación. El problema viene al pulsar el botón de "Herramienta de dedicación" para sacar el tiempo por cada alumno. Al pulsar en dicho botón no me muestra los tiempos, sino que me saca directamente a mi zona de "Area personal".
    ¿Alguien puede aportarme un poco de luz? Lo agradecería porque lo necesito para próximos cursos.
    Muchas gracias de antemano y felicidades por la concepción de una herramienta tan útil.
  • Narit B
    Wed, 13 Dec 2017, 9:34 PM
    I can't see download button. is any reason?

  • Jean-Charles Blondeau
    Mon, 15 Jan 2018, 4:39 PM
    Hi there,
    Is there any moodle 3.4+ update?
  • Ricardo Caiado
    Tue, 3 Apr 2018, 8:29 AM
    Is there any moodle 3.4+ update?
  • Sya Rahim
    Wed, 18 Jul 2018, 11:19 AM
    Hi,
    Are you planning to do a Moodle 3.5 update? Our academics love this tool as it captures our student learning time on the course.
  • Steve Radford
    Thu, 19 Jul 2018, 7:47 PM
    Any news on a Moodle V3.5 update?
  • Aday Talavera
    Mon, 23 Jul 2018, 12:12 AM
    I have upgraded the module to support latest Moodle versions. I also fixed some reported issues.
  • Steve Radford
    Mon, 23 Jul 2018, 1:38 AM
    That's great - thanks Aday
  • JUAN IGNACIO GONZALEZ
    Wed, 22 Aug 2018, 4:57 PM
    Hi Aday,
    Is it possible with your pluggin to show students how many time they are spent in each activity of the course?

  • Emrah Altun
    Wed, 9 Jan 2019, 7:57 PM
    I am using this plugin. There are 2350 students in my course and deditation tool is not giving me dedication times. Error message is: ****** did not send any data. ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE

    What can i do?
  • Alan Davis
    Wed, 20 Mar 2019, 10:41 PM
    Hello,

    I'm having trouble with the accuracy of this plugin. I have upgraded to Moodle 3.5.3+ (Build: 20181123). Many of my students say that they should 30 - 50% more time in the course. I had a developer look at it and he said I need to upgrade the PHP and server resources which is going to be very expensive. He said it will take 50 hours. My question is do you think this is a PHP and server resource problem?
  • Aday Talavera
    Fri, 22 Mar 2019, 4:09 AM
    @Alan David accuracy of this software is not related to PHP version or server resources. Please read above in documentation the section "How dedication time is estimated?" Changing "Session duration" values could give you more accurate values.
  • LL
    Thu, 23 May 2019, 10:52 PM
    Moodle 3.6 version updated ? smile

    please. thanks
  • CPatigny
    Mon, 24 Jun 2019, 6:50 PM
    Buenos días:
    ¿Alguna recomendación sobre el 'Límite entre clics (en minutos)'?
    Va de 1 a 150 minutos.. ¿Pros y contras de poner un valor alto o bajo?
    GRACIAS
  • Juan Pedro Delgado Garcia
    Fri, 12 Jul 2019, 2:58 PM
    Good morning, is there any way to show only the role of students in the list of dedication time?
    thanks
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