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Good Habits Activity
This plugin enables learners to monitor their habits over time. It provides a flexible calendar system that can be customised to track activities on a day-by-day basis, a week-by-week basis, or over a range of days. The entry system is designed to encourage reflection on activities that are related to online learning. This can help reveal trends over time which can shape learners' attitudes and motivation.
This is an activity module, so you must first add it to a course as an administrator or teacher. You can then create Activity Habits to track, which are visible to everyone using the activity. Learners can also create their own personal habits, visible only to themselves. They can also add a break to their habits. For example, to account for holiday time.
A help feature guides new users through the process from setting up habits to answering questions. After they complete a single set of questions, there is a general how-to guide.
The activity allows for both admin and peer review of the habits tracked. Both of these features can be turned off and student users can have control over their own review preferences.
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As an admin, you should see a button within the activity with the text "[Admin] Manage activity habits" (if you don't see this, there is a permissions issue). If you add habits via this button, they will be visible to everyone within the activity. I'd like to know whether this fixes it for you. I would also appreciate any advice as to how this might be made clearer.
Initially, this will be a User Select option that will give admin read-only access to the learner's habit calendar. If you have other suggestions, I'd be keen to hear your thoughts.
I know it has been several years! There may be reporting tools out there that do as you suggest. This plugin is focused on self-reflection, so the habits do need to be logged manually.
There could potentially be scope in the future for hooking into core Moodle events to compare with these self-evaluations, but it's not something that I've looked at.
- A new view. This progresses through various different questions relating to effort and outcome. I've found that some people have a strong preference for responding to the textual prompts over using the grid - while others have an equally strong preference in the other direction. So now there is a choice! It also seems like a better way into the self-reflective process for new users, as the grid view with no further direction may be overwhelming.
- A help feature guides new users through the process from setting up habits to answering questions. After they complete a single set of questions, there is a general how-to guide.
- Improved the admin review feature and added peer review. Peer review lets those who opt in review other users' habit calendars. This makes for a social dimension to the activity - it is fun to be able to compare calendars. It may also give extra motivation, by way of mutual accountability. There are obvious privacy implications - so I have given control over how this works to students and admin (site and activity).
- Improved responsive design, so it now works on phones held in portrait mode.
I'm doing this as a personal project, as I've seen some benefit from using it myself, and there does not seem to be anything similar in this subjective self-evaluation space.