Checklist

Activities ::: mod_checklist

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Davo Smith

A checklist can be created by a teacher (or generated from the activities in a course) and then the students or teachers can check-off each item as they are completed.

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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)

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Andreas Schenkel
Tue, 22 Nov 2016, 10:09 PM
I added a textfield in the moodle-course and configured "activity completion", so that the textfield has to be selfmarked when the user has finished this text-field.
This text-field is not integraded in the checklist. Is this a bug or do I have to configure something?
Davo Smith
Tue, 22 Nov 2016, 10:11 PM
I'm not quite sure what you mean by a 'textfield' is this a 'label' resource? If so, these are specifically excluded from the checklist, as they are expected to be just bits of information on a course, rather than an activity you can interact with an complete.
Andreas Schenkel
Tue, 22 Nov 2016, 10:16 PM
Just found the information about textfield (labels) https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-5674
Davo Smith
Thu, 24 Nov 2016, 4:26 AM
All automated tests passing in Moodle 3.2, with minor tweaks to a couple of behat tests.
Dinis Medeiros
Thu, 24 Nov 2016, 7:40 AM
Thanks for this. Is it possible to freeze the column (first left one ) of student name ( like excel does), so in large list you can always see the name of student, when you scroll?
TIA
Davo Smith
Thu, 24 Nov 2016, 3:21 PM
Not without spending a few hours writing some JavaScript code to achieve this. Possible to do, but I'm unlikely to have the time to do it.
Dinis Medeiros
Sat, 26 Nov 2016, 4:59 AM
Thanks for your response.
Andreas Schenkel
Mon, 5 Dec 2016, 1:21 AM
@Dave Smith: Thank you for your response. I use labels for creating a list with things the students should work on. So it would be very usefull if this special labels can be integrated into the checklist. Is there a way to "turn" this feature on?
Davo Smith
Mon, 5 Dec 2016, 1:26 AM
If you want to include label resources in the checklist, then you will have to edit the code that builds the list of activities within the checklist. There is no setting available in the user interface to allow this (as at the time it was written I could not think of a reason why anyone would want to include labels in a list of activities to complete).
Christoph Ruda
Fri, 13 Jan 2017, 8:11 PM
Thanks for this plugin. We have the 2.+ version running on a 3.1 Moodle. Can this be upgraded to the 2.7+ version by way of the normal upgrade process (replacing the files on the server and triggering the upgrade via notifications)?
Davo Smith
Fri, 13 Jan 2017, 8:14 PM
@Christoph - yes, any version of the plugin should upgrade cleanly to any later version (the 2.7+ version is a direct follow on from the older version, with no further changes having happened to the older version since I stopped supporting Moodle 2.0-2.6 in the latest code).
Christoph Ruda
Fri, 13 Jan 2017, 8:29 PM
Thanks for your swift reply - successfully upgraded.
João da Mata Libório Filho
Tue, 24 Jan 2017, 10:08 PM
It is a great plugin, it would be better if there was an option to give different notes for each item, for example, a checklist with 5 items worth 10 points, two items worth 1.5 and one worth 3 points and two worth 2 points. So the items could have different weights.
Davo Smith
Tue, 24 Jan 2017, 10:10 PM
João I think that would be rather over-complicating the checklist, for something that is likely to only be of interest to a small minority of users. I'm unlikely to be adding such a feature.
James Yeo
Tue, 28 Feb 2017, 9:44 PM
Davo, thanks for a great plugin!

Is it possible for the teacher to reset the checklist after it has been completed?

I need to be able to see the completed list - mark it as 'okay' and then reset it so the students can then complete the same list again.

Thanks