Good Habits Activity Module (2.2.1) for Moodle

The intention of this plugin is to help track habits over time. Within an e-learning context this may help cultivate behaviours that improve learning outcomes.

Overview of features

• Habit tracking by day, custom range of days or by week.
• Every calendar entry allows for rating by both effort and outcome.
• Granular access control.
• Uses the Privacy API to allow for control over user data.
• Create breaks for stretches of time in which you do not want to track habits.
• Keyboard shortcuts (number keys to set values, enter key to save).
• Can track activity completion based on: user entries / days or weeks complete / number of habits tracked.
• A simple view gives space for posing questions related to a particular entry.
• Can be set up to allow for admin review of entries, or for peer review.
• Student users have control over their own review preferences.
• 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.

2.2.1 Notes

• Improve review
• Allow review of historical data belonging to other users

2.1.2 Notes

• Add historical data feature

2.1.1 Notes

• Fix breaks bug
• Introduction of UI feature to expand a habit and review: first entry and averages.

2.0.3 Notes

• Fix review bug

2.0.2 Notes

• Hide entries in breaks
• Allow sorting of habits
• Support better translations

2.0.1 Notes

• Fix localisation of date strings
• Fix backwards compatibility with previous versions and document Moodle/Totara compatibility.

2.0 Notes

• Render using mustache templates - allows for easier UI changes.
• Add "simple view". This progresses through different questions relating to effort and outcome.
• Add "mobile view" (embedded page layout) and improve general responsiveness.
• Improve UI for calendar view to access simple view and 'skip' days/weeks.
• Add completion options / change implementation to use custom completion class.
• Add fix for server time changes.
• Fix issues with admin review.
• Add peer review.
• Add mod-level settings for admin/peer review and further user-level preferences.
• Change no-habits message to link to create new habit

1.2.2 Notes

• Minor code style updates.

1.2.1 Notes

• Add review feature. If enabled, allows admin to review the habit calendars of others on the course.
• Improved responsiveness of the design so this activity will work on phones, tablets and smaller screens.
• Changed how keyboard shortcuts work. The first number key sets effort, the second sets outcome and the enter key saves the entry.
• Effort/outcome can now be set by clicking on the corresponding square in the grid.
• Clicking/tapping the current entry circle will now save the entry (if you have selected new values) or cancel (if you have not).

1.1.2 Notes

• Minor maintenance updates (add thirdpartylibs.xml, change lang strings to sentence case).

1.1 Notes

• Add support for Backup/Restore.
• Add support for Completion Tracking.
• Fix issues with Privacy API implementation.
• Improve code documentation and style to fit guidelines.

Version compatibility

License

2025 Joe Cape joe.sc.cape@gmail.com

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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