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Lesson objectives
This is a block for Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.x + 3.x.
It displays current lesson objectives in the side bar (to both teacher and students) and allows a teacher to check them off as they are completed. You can enter a timetable, linked to different groups, so that objectives can be entered as far in advance
as you want and will be displayed at the appropriate time.
Other features include:
- Abiliy to display a large version of the objectives, when teaching from the front of a class room (click on the 'expand' icon)
- Students can view all the objectives, a week at a time, to help keep track of what they have been doing (and will be doing)
Usage
Click on 'Edit objectives ...' in the footer of the block. The first time, this will take you directly to the 'Edit timetables' screen (there is a button at the top of the 'Edit objectives' page to get back here later). For each slot in the timetable, choose a group to display the objectives to (or 'all groups', for everyone on the course), as well as a start / end time for that lesson. Three blank slots are added to each day every time you click 'Save'. Once the timetable slots are filled in, click 'Save and edit objectives', to start entering lesson objectives.
Type in the lesson objectives for each lesson slot, press enter to start a new objective; start a line with one (or two) spaces to indent the objectives. Click on 'Save' before moving to another week (via the next / previous links at the top of the page). Click 'Save and view course' to get back to the course. During a lesson, a teacher can click on an objective to toggle the 'tick' box between completed / not completed (this is just to help keep track of the progress through the lesson and does not affect anything else).
Screenshots
1. The clock on the plugin is not in sync with my server clock, so the times I set for display (local time) lead me to a "no objectives" type page. It seems to be behind a good 10 hours or so.
2. Clicking the check-boxes is usually not successful.
I'm on 2.6 latest stable, and I typically use Firefox, if that helps.
Otherwise, very useful plugin! Thanks for that!
2. I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'clicking the check-boxes is usually not successful' - do you mean nothing at all happens when you click on an objective? Or does it reload the page, but not update the objective state? Does it give an error message? Or something different? Does it work when not viewing full-screen, or does it work when viewing full-screen, or does it not work in either case?
The ticking-off of objectives is very simple code (it doesn't do anything with javascript - it simply follows a link to reload the page and mark them as complete), so there isn't a lot to go wrong in it.
When clicking, most of the time the page does re-load, but the box remains unticked.
Thoughts?
It is far easier to discuss these sort of things via email, please contact me via moodle@davosmith.co.uk