Moodle plugins directory: Checklist | Moodle.org
Checklist
This is a Moodle activity module for Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.0+ that allows a teacher to create a checklist / todo list / task list for their students to work through. The teacher can monitor all the students' progress, as they tick off each of the items
in the list. Items can be indented and marked as optional. Students are presented with a simple bar showing how far they have progressed through the required/optional items and can add their own, private, items to the list.
Features include:
- Choose whether students or teachers can check-off items
- Students can add their own notes to their checklist
- Dates can be added to items (and exported to the calendar)
- Teachers can comment on an individual student's items
- Progress is exported to the gradebook
- Choice of colours for each checklist item
- Heading items (without checkboxes)
- (Optional) Import list of current course activities and automatically check-off as activities completed
There are two other plugins that further enhance this activity:
Video overview of this plugin:
The latest version (and the Moodle 1.9 version) can always be found here: https://github.com/davosmith/moodle-checklist (the version on Moodle.org will be updated from time to time)
Screenshots
I agre with Paul Johnston's comments: this is a very useful, versatile plug-in. However, we are also experiencing problems with the latest version of the plug-in on Moodle 2.9. I use Checklist mainly to track Hot potatoes exercises, but they are not auto-updating as they used to, even though the HotPot report shows they are completed. As Paul said in ihs message, there seems to be no pattern: a small number of students' lists have updated, but not all. I tried unchecking and checking the usual setting 'can override' (although I must admit I'm not sure what 'Yes, cannot override' means).
Should my Administrator do something to get things back to normal?
Many thanks,
Susanna
Checking my code - in the latest code I've only got support for the core plugin types. I can easily add support for the hotpot module. I just need to know what event is triggered by the hotpot module when it is 'completed', so my plugin can look for it (I will try to look up for myself).
The difference between 'Yes, can override' and 'Yes, cannot override' is pretty much what it says. With 'can override', the student can tick or untick the checklist item themselves, but it will be automatically ticked when they complete the activity associated with it. With 'cannot override', the checklist item can only be set by completing the activity - the student cannot override it themselves.
The difference between overrides is now fully understood and is not a factor in this case. Thank you for the explanation.
I've just pushed out a new version that should hopefully fix both of your issues.
The hotpot module is now supported for automatic check-off (with completion disabled).
The forum module is not marked as complete for both new discussions and new posts (replies), instead of just posts (replies).
I'd like to suggest an enhancement that would enable an even broader use - rather than having just a yes or no tick box, could this easily be extended to support a RAG rating? No setting could log as 0 progress, Red as 0.1, Amber as 0.5 and Green as 1. This would enable using checklist to support PiXL style learning checklists.
What do you think?
There have been a number of suggestions around extending the teacher checklist scale to add extra options. Unfortunately, due to the way the code was written (many years ago), it would be quite a big job to disentangle the current 3-states (yes, no, not answered), to enable different options. I'm afraid it's probably more that I'm ever likely to do in my spare time, so I'm only likely to tackle such a change if it was funded.
Many thanks for the quick update, which works fine except in a course where I have two groups. One group's activities have updated whereas there is no progress for any of the students in the other group. (There is only one list.) The list is set to 'student only' and the Hot Potatoes log shows that some activities have been completed. The activities were done before the update in both groups.
Susanna
Re my previous message, I've found the explanation for the discrepancy in the updates. (Activity records disappeared during a Moodle server update.)
Many thanks again for this valuable plug-in.
Susanna
I've noticed that all a student has to do is to display a Hot Potatoes activity for it to be checked off (when automatic checking off is selected, of course). I can see that I can prevent this by setting a minimum score, but I would prefer to avoid this: the aim of Hot Potatoes exercises is for the student to learn, not to be tested, and, when necessary, display the answer. This causes the score to go down. Is it possible for Checklist to look for the Status 'Completed' in the HotPot log (as opposed to 'Abandoned')?
I'm afraid there isn't a simple button to hide/show all automatic items - maybe it's something I could develop at some point, but i tend to only look at the plugin intermittently these days (other than making sure it continues to work with each release of Moodle).