Moodle plugins directory: Portfolio | Moodle.org
Portfolio
Activities ::: mod_giportfolio
Maintained by Davo Smith, Michael de Raadt
Based on the book module, this allows students to create portfolio contributions, within a structure set by the teacher.
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Portfolio module for Moodle, heavily based on the Book module for Moodle (http://moodle.org/) - Copyright (C) 2004-2011 Petr Skoda (http://skodak.org/)
Based on the book module, this activity allows students to create portfolio contributions, with a structure set by the teacher.
The course teacher(s) are able to create an overall structure for the students' work via a series of chapters and subchapters, the same as the layout found in the book module.
The course students are then able to add their own contributions based on this structure, which can then be commented on an graded by the course teacher(s).
Usage:
- As a teacher, click on 'View/edit portfolio template', then create each of the chapters that you want students to contribute to
(note you must create all chapters before any students start contributing) - You can fill in each chapter with instructions / introductory information to help students.
- As a student, select a chapter to contribute to, then click on 'Add contribution' and enter the text of your contribution / upload relevant files.
- As a teacher, click on 'Submitted portfolios', then you can filter and search the list of students who have made contributions.
- Click on 'View' to browse through a particular student's contributions and add comments to each one.
- Click on 'Grade' to give overall feedback comments and a grade.
Created by:
- Petr Skoda (skodak) - most of the coding & design
- Mojmir Volf, Eloy Lafuente, Antonio Vicent and others
- Portfolio features by Davo Smith and Manolescu Dorel of Synergy Learning, on behalf of The Goethe Institut.
Project page:
- https://github.com/synergylearning/moodle-mod_giportfolio
- http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=mod_giportfolio
Installation:
Issue tracker:
Intentionally omitted features:
- more chapter levels - it would encourage teachers to write too much complex and long books, better use standard standalone HTML editor and import it as Resource. DocBook format is another suitable solution.
- TOC hiding in normal view - instead use printer friendly view
- detailed student tracking (postponed till officially supported)
- export as zipped set of HTML pages - instead use browser command Save page as... in print view
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Contributors
Davo Smith (Lead maintainer)
Michael de Raadt
Vero B
Michael Vangelovski
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At one point we also got the below error, but have not been able to reproduce it, so I have not submitted it as an issue yet.
Debug info: Module giportfolio claims to support
FEATURE_COMPLETION_HAS_RULES but does not have required
giportfolio_get_completion_state function
Error code: err_system
Stack trace:
• line 1324 of /lib/completionlib.php: moodle_exception thrown
• line 660 of /lib/completionlib.php: call to completion_info->internal_systemerror()
• line 584 of /lib/completionlib.php: call to completion_info->internal_get_state()
• line 708 of /lib/completionlib.php: call to completion_info->update_state()
• line 188 of /mod/giportfolio/viewgiportfolio.php: call to completion_info->set_module_viewed()
This tool is great. I have one question. I would like to have a groups of students working in single portfolio and the group settings in the common module settings would appear to support this. However, when I make contributions from separate student accounts in the same group, each student is unable to see the other's contribution. Am I doing something incorrectly or does the tool not support group/per portfolio structure. Many Thanks!
John
John
John
Neither of those features were part of the requirements for the customer who commissioned this plugin. They could probably both be added, but it is unlikely to happen unless there was some funding available to pay for the developer time involved.
Davo
Given the current state of this project is it safe to assume that we could get a few years of service out of it? Without any money committed, can you predict? Thank you.
I can't make any absolute promises. The customer who commissioned the plugin is still actively using it, so it should be maintained for the immediate future (although there are some changes that I may need to copy back into the released version).
Davo
Stefan.
I'm not directly aware of any reason why it would not work with Moodle 3.1, but I have not tested it directly. If you find any problems, let me know and I will try to look at them (but cannot promise a quick turnaround).
Davo
Stefan.