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Progress Bar
Blocks ::: block_progress
Maintained by 
Michael de Raadt
A time management tool for you and your students
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Current versions available: 2
Please use the Completion Progress block instead if this.
- Faster and more efficient
- Easier to use
- More compatible with additional plugins
The Progress Bar block will no longer be developed and is kept here for historical reasons.
- A time-management tool for students
- Shows progress in activities/resources of a course
- Colour coded to quickly see completed/viewed
- Teachers select which pre-existing activities/resources are to be included
- Order by times/deadlines or course order
- Overview page for teachers showing progress of all students
- Identify and contact at-risk students
- Combined progress on Dashboard page
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Michael de Raadt (Lead maintainer)
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This plugin is of great help. I just wanted to know if there is anyway we can let the plugin track only the quizzes, lessons and other instances of the current week (say Monday to sunday). Our course has a huge number of quizzes and the progress bar looks very cluttered if we track the whole course. TIA
You can be selective about which items appear in the block. One possible solution would be to set up multiple blocks, one for each week, then to show/hide the blocks as needed.
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The strange thing is that it still works for some courses!
It sounds like there is a file missing, but I'm not sure how.
Could you please turn on debugging and see if you get more information? That might help you.
If you get more detail and think this is a bug, could you please create an issue on tracker.moodle.org? That's the best place to handle this.
Michael
A required parameter (progressbarid) was missing
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Debug info:
Error code: missingparam
Stack trace:
line 463 of /lib/setuplib.php: moodle_exception thrown
line 548 of /lib/moodlelib.php: call to print_error()
line 33 of /blocks/progress/overview.php: call to required_param()
That message should appear if you went to the Overview page directly, without pressing the button on the block itself. This would be the case if you went to the Overview page, clicked in the URL bar, then pressed enter. Refreshing the page should continue to pass the parameter possibly with a warning about passing parameters again.
This is different to what you suggested earlier.
I suspect this has more to do with the server or the way the plugin is installed.
If you do find some information that points to the Progress Bar block as a cause, please raise an issue in the tracker.
Michael.
Is there any plan in the future / near future to include progress indicator of the student submitting the manual grading quiz / assessment but not being marked yet? There are many requests from our facilitators for that feature that might be coming handy to provide quick glimpse on the assessments that are ready to be marked?
Thanks kindly and regards,
Riady
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-5282
The Progress Bar is primarily for students. I suggest you provide your markers with a block that shows them what grading tasks need to be completed.
When they have turned assignments in, and the teacher did not have time yet to grade, it is not visible for students.
When some of my week activities are hidden or shown in gray by some restriccion access, I can add them to the progress bar in the same way as the rest of unrestrictes activities. Then, from the point of view of the students, they don't appear on the progress bar.
Certainly is logical, but some students are shocked after seeing new activities appearing in the progress bar after acomplishing a restriction, so the % progress lowers and the bar grows with a new segment, disappointing them.
I wonder if there is any form of adding all the activities, even they are restricted or not.
I recently made sure that all the hidden activities in the course are hidden in the Progress Bar. Currently the two match.
I suppose there could be a setting that allows the Progress Bar to show hidden activities, but it's a very complicated idea when activities can be hidden for many different reasons (visibility, groups, activity restrictions). If you are really keen on change, please raise an improvement issue in the Tracker and we can discuss it there.
As an immediate workaround, I'd recommend not showing the percentage. It's a very simplified measure and I keep it off by default.