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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Davo Smith
Tue, 13 Oct 2015, 4:08 PM
Thanks Chris - if you're interested in Realtime Quiz, you might also want to look at https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_activequiz which was based on my Realtime Quiz (but almost completely rewritten) and adds a lot of new features that my older plugin doesn't have.
Seth Jenners
Sat, 24 Oct 2015, 8:17 AM
Great plugin. Is it possible to add the yes/no to the progress table? Currently you have to access the yes/no for the checklist through the magnifying glass in the progress table.
Davo Smith
Tue, 27 Oct 2015, 3:42 AM
Seth - I've already replied to your private message (there isn't really an need to send me a private message and post here - I get notified for both of them) - but just in case anyone else reads this: just click on the 'Edit checks' button, then you can do exactly what you are asking for (don't forget to click 'Save' when you are done).
Sue Moss
Thu, 12 Nov 2015, 6:25 PM
We've has this module now for several years and it is being widely used on our site, but I wondered if there was any way that it would be possible to have it so that the students names stay fixed to the side? Some checklists go "off the screen" and if they go to the point they need to check they lose the students.
Davo Smith
Thu, 12 Nov 2015, 7:40 PM
Sue, I've looked at doing that in the past and I know that recent versions of the Moodle gradebook now have code in place to do it. I now have a reasonable idea about how it could be done, but I rarely have spare evenings to add new checklist features these days. Ultimately, with funding, it would probably be about 0.5 days work to implement (and fully test), but without funding it would have to wait for me to have a free evening or two.
David Mudrák
Tue, 17 Nov 2015, 12:32 AM
Would not it be nice to celebrate the Moodle 3.0 release by adding some screenshot here?
Dinis Medeiros
Sun, 6 Dec 2015, 5:43 AM
In moodle 3.0 i got this message:
CGIWrap Error: Execution of this script not permitted

Execution of (htdocs/web/moodle/mod/checklist/view.php) is not permitted for the following reason:
Script is group writable.

Server Data:
Server Administrator/Contact: [no address given]
Server Name: www.escolaagricolavendasnovas.com
Server Port: 80
Server Protocol: HTTP/1.0
Virtual Host: www.escolaagricolavendasnovas.com

Request Data:
User Agent/Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
Request Method: GET
Remote Address: 85.244.14.117
Remote Port: 20806
Query String: id=155
Referring Page: http://www.escolaagricolavendasnovas.com/moodle/course/modedit.php?add=checklist&type=&course=6&section=2&return=0&sr=0

Any HELP?
Davo Smith
Sun, 6 Dec 2015, 7:31 AM
That's a permissions issue. You need to change the file permissions on the plugin to remove the group write permission (as your server is obviously configured to refuse to run files with those permissions).
Dinis Medeiros
Sun, 6 Dec 2015, 9:11 PM
Can you explain HOW TO? I'm a dummie in this kind of things, I can access server but ... What file?
Thanks a lot in advance
Davo Smith
Sun, 6 Dec 2015, 9:27 PM
Hi Dinis. Sorry, I can't explain how to do that, as it entirely depends on how your sever is configured. Please ask your server admin to sort it out for you.
Dinis Medeiros
Mon, 7 Dec 2015, 1:43 AM
SOLVED. Thanks
Rob Beckett
Wed, 9 Dec 2015, 6:55 AM
Hi We use assignments linked from Moodle books to the actual assignment activity which is located in an orphaned section of the course and set to show. This works really well as the students need only go through the Moodle Books, view content, watch videos, articulate presentations, interactions and quizzes etc. My problem is that the Checklist Module/Activity which used to show these assignments in the orphaned section now will not show them. Is it possible to have these show in the Checklists again? It is a brilliant way of clearing all excess activities from the Heading/Labeled sections of the course and screen real estate (Especially on smaller devices), providing a place for lecturers to go to see at a glance students at risk, who has completed what and having students work there way through the content in one location. In an upgrade not sure which one 2.5 or 2.6 these orphaned assignments disappeared from all 200 of my courses Checklists. Any ideas would be really appreciated. Thanks in advance Rob Beckett tafeSA
Davo Smith
Wed, 9 Dec 2015, 5:09 PM
Rob,

There was a problem, many years ago, that empty course sections would cause the checklist update code to stop, before it got to the end of the course.

This was fixed (back in Feb 2011) by making the code loop through from section 1 to the number of sections reported by the course format. Whilst it is probably possible to change the code to handle sections that fall outside of this range, I'd be a bit nervous about changing it without extensive testing (which I don't have much time to do), due to the risk of it causing infinite loops, or breaking badly on some people's Moodle sites (with so many people relying on the plugin, I have to be careful what I change).

I will try to look into it, but I can make no promises of any timescale involved.
Jaime Smith
Mon, 11 Jan 2016, 4:47 AM
We like to have full course checklists available to students so they can see their progress in the class. However, we have noticed that items we've hidden from students sometimes appear to them in the checklist. If we hide items or sections with the "eye" they do not appear in the checklist. But if we hide them using restrictions (like date or activity completion restrictions) then they still appear to students in the checklist, which we do not want. Is it possible to make hidden items hidden in the checklist, not matter which method we use to hide them from students? Thanks.
Davo Smith
Mon, 11 Jan 2016, 4:18 PM
Hi Jelly,

Yes, it would be possible to make conditionally restricted items hidden in the checklist, with a change to the code. It would probably take a few hours to implement such a change (it is not completely straightforward, as other reasons for hiding activities can be calculated per-item, whereas this needs calculating per-user as well).

I don't expect to have any spare time to do any development work on this plugin in the near future - I'm happy to accept a well written patch from someone else, or will look at it when I next have some spare time.