Point of view - Feedback

Blocks ::: block_point_view
Maintained by Quentin Fombaron, Astor Bizard
Did you ever want to know the feelings of students about your courses, exercises or other activities? Point of View is a reaction system with emojis representing feelings; students can vote and rate activities and hence share their experiences. It improves social networking and gamification in your courses with students and professors reactions. Point of view plugin allows to add customizable reaction buttons to moodle activities, display the number of users who reacted and the type of reaction or specify graphically difficulty levels for activities with color tracks. And it is fully customizable!
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Moodle plugin « Point of View »

Quentin Fombaron - October 20th 2020, Astor Bizard - October 11th 2021
Centre des Nouvelles Pédagogies (CNP*), Univ. Grenoble Alpes - University of innovation

The plugin Point of view offers the possibility to react and give difficulty levels to activities within a Moodle course. Students know the difficulty of an activity (estimated by the teacher) thanks to color tracks. They also have the possibility to react via emojis, each representing an emotion, a feeling. It is fully customizable.

This plugin is developed by Quentin Fombaron and Astor Bizard. It is initially developped for caseine.org. Do not hesitate to send your thinking and bug reports to the contact addresses below.

Contacts:
- Quentin Fombaron
- Astor Bizard
- Caseine

* The CNP, set up as part of the IDEX Training component, brings together the DAPI, PerForm and IDEX support teams.

Point of View as a block

The Point of View plugin is a block. For general information about how blocks work, see Moodle documentation on blocks.

Usage

Once configured (see Configuration below), the block enriches the display of course modules with difficulty tracks and reactions.
Example of difficulty tracks and reaction on three modules.

Difficulty tracks

The difficulty track is set by the teacher for each module. It appears on the left of the module name.
By default, Green track, Blue track, Red track and Black track are available. These colors are customizable.

Reactions

Reactions are a way for students to express their point of view on a module. The reaction interface is displayed on the right of the module line.
The total number of votes for the module is displayed, as well as a preview of reactions that have been voted for. A green dot indicates that the user has voted.

Hovering the reactions or clicking on them reveals the different reactions, allowing the user to vote for a reaction by clicking on the associated emoji.
Reactions interface.

By default, the available reactions are "Easy!", "I'm getting better!" and "So hard...". These texts and their associated emoji are customizable.
Only one vote per module is allowed for each user. Users can freely change their vote, or remove it (by clicking again the previously selected reaction).

Accessing reactions details

Teachers can access detailed information about reactions by clicking the link in the block content:
Block content with link to overview

This leads to a table with information about votes for each user and each course module:
Overview table with percentages

Information about reactions votes is displayed as percentages by default. This can be toggled to number of votes by clicking on the reactions:
Overview table with number of votes

Clicking the arrow on the right of a row allows access to detailed information about each user's vote on the module:
Overview table with users information

Configuration

Once added to a course, the Point of View block needs to be configured.

Enabling reactions

To enable reactions in the course, the following option needs to be set to Yes:
Global reactions activation

Once enabled on block level, reactions can be enabled or disabled for each course module by checking the "Reactions" checkbox:
Course module reactions activation

Reactions can also be enabled or disabled for all course modules of one type:
Reactions activation for a course module type
...or for all course modules in a section:
Reactions activation for a course section

Enabling difficulty tracks

To enable difficulty tracks in the course, the following option needs to be set to Yes:
Global difficulty tracks activation

Once enabled on block level, difficulty tracks can be set for each course module with a dropdown menu: Course module difficulty track setting

Customization

Reactions emoji

Custom emoji can be defined to be used as reactions pictures. This can be done either at the site level (in plugin administration settings), or at the block level (on the block configuration page).
Note: Only 3 different reactions ("Easy", "I'm getting better" and "So hard" by default) are available.

Site administrators can define custom emoji to be used as reactions pictures site-wide:
Custom reactions emoji at the site level
11 files are needed: 3 emoji, 7 emoji groups (all possible groups from 1 to 3 emoji) and 1 neutral emoji meaning no vote on the activity. Please stick to the specified names.

Emoji Emoji group No vote emoji group
File names easy.png
better.png
hard.png
group_E.png
group_B.png
group_H.png
group_EB.png
group_EH.png
group_BH.png
group_EBH.png
group_.png
Preferred size 200x200 400x200 400x200
Extension PNG PNG PNG

At the block level, teachers can choose which emoji to use, as well as using their own custom emoji. The requirements are the same as above.
Reactions emoji selection at the block level

At the block level, custom text to be used for reactions can also be defined.
Example of custom reactions texts

Difficulty tracks colors

Site administrators can define custom difficulty tracks colors. This is useful if your site uses a theme where one of the default colors renders badly.
Note: Only 4 difficulty tracks (Green, Blue, Red and Black by default) are available.
Custom color setting for green difficulty track

Screenshots

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Contributors

Quentin Fombaron (Lead maintainer): Lead Developer
Astor Bizard: Developer
Jayson Haulkory: Intern Developer
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  • Astor Bizard
    Mon, Sep 18, 2023, 8:06 PM
    Hello @Carmen Escárate,

    If I understand your question correctly (make the reactions buttons always be visible, without having to hover the image of reactions first), yes it should be possible.
    You would have to hide the group and make the reactions always visible, and make their height always be 20px (it is 0 by default).
    You may need to adjust their positions as well. You may have a look at this method: https://github.com/Astor-Bizard/moodle-block_point_view/blob/master/amd/src/script_point_view.js#L278 to know what happens in js animation when reactions show up!

    I hope this helps; if you have trouble, fell free PM me and I will get back to you smile

    Best regards,
    Astor
  • Дмитрий Гогешвили
    Sat, Oct 28, 2023, 3:51 AM
    Hello! Whats php version the plugin version requires?
  • Astor Bizard
    Mon, Nov 6, 2023, 5:35 PM
    Hello,

    I am confident it will work with PHP 7+, for earlier versions I am not sure.

    Best regards,
    Astor
  • elmeser elmeser
    Mon, Apr 15, 2024, 9:16 PM
    Hi! Is it possible to add an option to set reactions on admin level to all courses?
  • Astor Bizard
    Mon, Apr 15, 2024, 9:23 PM
    Hi @elmeser elmeser,

    I am afraid this would not be practical, as this plugin comes as a block. It must therefore be added on each course where teachers wish to use reactions.
    I wonder if there would be a way to add a block at site level, present under every course subcontext. However, it would still be a single block instance, not very usable to get a reactions rundown for a given course.

    I am sorry I may not be able to assist you further with this!

    Best regards,
    Astor
  • Sébastien Viel
    Sat, May 25, 2024, 2:25 AM
    First, thank you for this very useful plugin for getting feedback from my students. I'm currently testing it on Moodle 4.3, and I'm having display problems with the position of the colour of the tracks and the reaction emojis. Both are out of sync. The colour appears on the right and overlaps with the activity icon, and the emojis are slightly out of place and fall outside the activity frame. I tried this with the Boost theme and the Stream theme and found the same thing (Moodle 4.3.4, PHP 8.0). Are you aware of this problem?
    Best Regards,
    Sébastien
  • Astor Bizard
    Tue, May 28, 2024, 10:17 PM
    Hi @Sébastien Viel,

    Thank you for pointing this out.
    It also seems that with new UI for editing block configuration, general buttons to switch reactions on or off are not functioning properly in Moodle 4.3.
    I will adress this in the next release.

    Thank you!
    Astor
  • Sébastien Viel
    Tue, Jun 25, 2024, 10:35 PM
    Hi @Astor Bizard,
    Everything is OK with the last update! Everything is at the right place! You made my day! Thank you very much!
    Sébastien
  • Alina Samoilenko
    Thu, Aug 22, 2024, 11:09 PM
    Hi! We have installed the last version and still have the issue that it won't enable all reactions if you click "Enable all". We use Moodle 4.2.1. Could you please help us solve it?
  • Astor Bizard
    Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 11:38 PM
    Hello @Alina Samoilenko,
    I cannot reproduce your problem. Can you DM me with more precise information on what you did and the result you expect?
    Best regards,
    Astor
  • Senny Volkov
    Fri, Nov 22, 2024, 4:32 PM
    Hello,
    We are using your Point of View plugin on our Moodle platform. The block has been added to all courses, and a custom text under the reactions has been configured. However, we now need to replace this text with a new one.

    Could you please let us know if there’s a way to automatically update the custom text across all courses and units where the plugin is used? If this is possible, we would appreciate any instructions or guidance on how to proceed.
    Thank you in advance!
  • Astor Bizard
    Fri, Nov 22, 2024, 9:34 PM
    Hello @Senny Volkov,

    Sadly the plugin offers no way to bulk edit this kind of setting.
    If your goal is to have the same customized text throughout your moodle site, please consider customizing language pack from admin settings instead of overriding it in every instance. This should allow easier changes later. smile

    Best regards,
    Astor
  • Sébastien Viel
    Sat, Jan 18, 2025, 10:17 PM
    Hello! I'm currently testing "Point of View" on Moodle 4.5.1, and I'm having display problems with the position of the colour of the tracks. The colour appears on the left but with random heights, and, sometime, the emojis are slightly out of place and fall outside the activity frame. I tried this with the Boost theme and the Stream theme and found the same thing (Moodle 4.5.1, PHP 8.1). Are you aware of this problem? Do you plan to update this plugin for Moodle 4.5 ?
    Best Regards,
    Sébastien
  • Astor Bizard
    Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 11:11 PM
    Hello @Sébastien Viel,

    A version supporting Moodle 4.5 should be released soon.
    I managed to reproduce your problem with difficulty tracks, but not the one you mention about reactions emoji falling out of activity frame. Can you please provide further information on this specific problem (course format, number of nested subsections) ?

    Best regards,
    Astor
  • Sébastien Viel
    Tue, Feb 4, 2025, 8:26 PM
    Hello @Astor Bizard,
    Thanks for your feedback. Sorry, I made a mistake with the reaction emojis, everything is OK on 4.5. Only the problem with the difficulty tracks remains. Can't wait to test your plugin on Moodle 4.5!
    Best Regards,
    SV
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