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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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I am using version 2016031101.
In my case progress bar is same for all users. When a student performs an activity, immediately progress bars of all students are affected (although they did not perform that activity) which results into same progress bar for all.
Please advise.
Yes, that is consistent with the bug that others have experienced. You should try the test version in the issue...
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-6072
Michael.
Thanks for your response. It worked like a chram. Thanks again.
- Can this be enabled only for a particular course and not Moodle-wide, for testing purposes?
- What would the progress bar look like if a student had up to 30-40 assessments that needed to be tracked?
- What other statuses are available apart from the Completed with a pass mark, completed with a fail mark and upcoming?
Thank you, look forward to hearing from you.
Mile
- The plugin is usually used within courses. It can be added to the Dashboard page, but this is not essential.
- For 30-40 items, the Progress Bar can be a bit squashed. You can have multiple blocks and split up your course content. I'm working on a new version that includes options to wrap or scroll the bar.
- The actions differ for each activity/resource, depending on what is possible with that activity.
Sebastian: There is a bug in recent versions. Grab the version from the following issue...
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-6072
I hope to release that as the normal version soon.
- Ideally we'd then need to pick and choose what activities we need monitored to eliminate the bar from being squashed.
- I'm currently using Moodle 2.6, do you foresee any issues with installing your current version of the progress bar on my platform?
- Once i install it, can i pick and choose which course it is visible for?
Sorry about the questions, just want to make sure it doesn't automatically go live without configuring it first.
Thanks again, look forward to your response.
Regards,
Mile
The block is designed to work with versions from Moodle 2.0 onwards. When it is installed you will need to add it to courses like other blocks. When you add the block to a course you will need to select which activities are included in the bar.
I recommend you set up a test server to try things out.
Nice series of upgrades, many thanks. Scrolling the long bars is a great idea but, for us, wrapping doesn't work. (version 2016041500 - Moodle 2.9.3)
When clicking on the help icons the language help comments appear in a new page.
The configuration drop-down menu remains inside the block and therefore inaccessible. Image -
Cheers
Dave
Dave: I assume you mean the help icons on the block instance configuration page. When the page is not fully loaded, it will show help pop-ups as pages. The configuration page for the Progress Bar can take a while to load because of the calendar icons.
I wonder if what you are seeing in relation to the wrapping and drop-down could be related to your theme. Are you using a custom/non-standard theme? If so, could you try a standard theme and see if that changes? If you are seeing a problem with a standard theme, could you please report that in the Tracker.
I am running moodle 3.0.3+ on Ubuntu 14.10 LTS and I can no longer edit the progress-bar settings; not sure on which version of moodle/plugin this stopped working.
The course is has a lot of resources in it and the progress-bar settings window was always slow to open, but now it never opens the window for selecting resources to add to the bar.
I have debug messages set to Developer and there are no error messages reported.
That sounds like it might be timing out. You might want to increase your timeout and memory settings in your php.ini file. Most of the time and effort taken to load the page is caused by the calendar widget (see https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-52337).
I'm working on a version of the block that will rely more on completion to work around access and speed issues.