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Progress Bar
Blocks ::: block_progress
Maintained by 
Michael de Raadt
A time management tool for you and your students
Latest release:
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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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A few people have asked have asked for more colours in the Progress Bar, but I've been holding out against that, with the main reason being to keep the display simple and intuitive.
A few people have asked have asked for more colours in the Progress Bar, but I've been holding out against that, with the main reason being to keep the display simple and intuitive.
Correct ! I've just voted for this improvement
Besides, everyone knows the colourcobination red-yellow-green and what it stands for. Green = OK, yellow = need attention, RED= not OK.
I really have this request from many, many teachers.
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-5026
Sorry that change doesn't suit you. It was a product of CONTRIB-4727 and I think it is better that the progress bar should turn red when a student makes an attempt but does not pass, regardless of whether this is in the past or future. This makes even more sense in non-time-based courses. I haven't added a setting to control that yet, but you seem like a handy fellow; perhaps you could create such a setting and share it.
Michael.
I recently made a presentation on learner management using the Progress Bar Block at a Moodle conference in Japan. I was pleased to discover that the block is already being used by numerous teachers over here. There has been a strong trend in Japan recently to maintain engagement and motivation through direct contact between learner and teacher. Several fellow users of the Progress Bar block mentioned that they use the teacher overview to identify students to target for personal intervention (usually an email or text message). It would be a tremendous service to people who use the block in this way if there was a way to send a message to students directly from the teacher overview area. It would be even better if there were check boxes for each student and a way to send group messages concerning late of failed assignments.
Thanks for the feedback.
I agree that this functionality would be useful. There is an issue asking for that already. The challenge is finding the time to implement that.
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-4241
Michael.
Thank you very much for your progress bar. This is a very good tool to use both by student and teacher to monitor the course progress.
At the moment, I'm using multiple instances of progress bar to monitor different activities within the same course. This is due to having multiple units within the course - for example, in the retail course, it contains unit on retail management, visual merchandising and sales management. I'm using the progress bar for individual unit activities and it works great. But, when I select "Overview of students", I cannot refer to what unit I'm monitoring. If there is any space where I can provide description within the students overview progress bar, that would be great.
If the feature has already been there, would you mind to guide me to activate it.
regards,
Riady Santoso
many thanks
Is that OK? Since in our old moodle 2.4 all the quizzes were shown, no mater the restrict access options/settings?
Thanks...
I've been on holidays and am catching up.
Riady: I suggest you put the students in the course into separate groups. You can then view the groups separately on the Overview page.
Stephen: The block should follow the due date automatically if the block is "locked" to the deadline. If not, you can manually change the date in the block's configuration. It's hard for me to test with TurnItIn as that is a proprietary code. Let me know how you go with that.
Mitja: Yes, that is the behaviour you should be seeing. The previous behaviour was a bug that was resolved in https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-5264. The block needs to show the same things that can be seen in the course page. If you think this fix is not working properly, please let me know.