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Sticky Notes
Activities ::: mod_stickynotes
Maintained by 
Olivier Valentin
Sticky Notes is a very simple activity for creating a sticky notes wall for your brainstormings, ranking...
It can be configured as a collaborative or individual activity, and teacher can choose to enable votes, repositioning of notes, limitation for notes and votes, set codes for 6 available background colors...
Notes can be moved by drag n drop to offer the most simple experience !
Latest release:
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650 downloads
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Current versions available: 4
How it works
Sticky Notes is an easy-to-use activity to build a post-it wall for your collaborative brainstorming, pedagogic uses, ranking, meeting, ideas organization...Create, update and move sticky notes in different columns as a kanban, change background color and vote for sticky notes as you wish !
Features
When creating an activity, teacher can define which background colors will be used between the 6 default colors, and add a meaning/caption for each color if necessary. Teachers can edit any notes, while users updates only their own notes.
Teacher can also enable or define :
- number of notes per user
- number of votes per user if enabled
- enable the rotate effect for notes for accessibility
- view authors (only for teachers)
- students see only their notes or all
- students can move only their notes or all
- lock notes and votes function
- export all contents
- create, update, delete and move his own notes
- vote for notes if enabled
- move his notes, or all if enabled
Activity completion based on notes creation is implemeted.
How to move notes
Yo can move notes in the same column or between columns in two ways :
- you can use update interface,
- you can also move notes using drag and drop. Click on a note and move it with your mouse to its new place. Drag and drop also works on smartphones or tablets.
Teacher can choose if students can move only their notes to limit modifications, or if they can move any notes in activity as a real collaborative activity.
Settings
In global settings, you can set 6 colors that will be used for sticky notes backgrounds, and give each color its own signification. Admin will set the 6 colors availables for all activities. Default colors are set in plugin global parameters, and have been chosen to respect accessibililty for colorblindness.Feature request and bug reports
For bug reports and support requests, please use bug tracker which is linked below. Thanks !
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Contributors
Olivier Valentin (Lead maintainer)
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thank you very much for your comment !
I'm working right now on a completion system based on notes creation, if you are interested...
Feel free to give any other ideas to upgrade this plugin.
Olivier
We have just updated to 0.50 (2023121301) version of the plugin for Moodle 4.1.8 version and the Lock and Unlock buttons within the activity text displays in French.
Cheers
ho, I have forgotten some constant values in my code ! I will correct it as soon as possible. Thank you for your message !
Cheers,
Is there any possibility to set a kind of template with predefined notes to be used by students but with that difference that it is not changed to anyone else but the student?
Now, if I set off the "Students see all notes allover activity" students can create their own notes but can not see the predefined notes by teacher.
Nice feature would be to lock the notes one by one and allow button to make a copy by student.
And the last thing I would suggest to set columns and plugin background color or even better to place an image.
thank you for your message and all your propositions !
- As Sticky Notes now works, I don't think that a template feature will be easy to add... but I'll think about this, this can be interesting ! To be sure : you suggest that teacher can create some notes that every student will found in his own board as templates, and that every student can use these notes without making them disappear from other students board ?
- About "Students see all notes...", is it a bug you're talking about ?
- About locking notes one by one : very interesting ! How do you see this ? Is it a feature reserved to teacher ? Or a "security" for students when they are working ?
- About backgrounds : I'm not very sure to implement this, for I think this could cause readability and accessibility issues...
Best regards,
Olivier
This is the case: Students come to course, they learn something and they have two columns to sort the predefined notes (by teacher) and add some of their own (these notes could be set by student to be public or not, public notes could enabled or disabled by teacher in settings). Teachers notes can not be edited by student but can be moved to any column accordingly students decision but only for him alone. All students can set their own notes. Teacher checks their decision. The result for teacher is a list of notes for each student.
I know it is not so easily done ;) Thank you again for your work.
- About "Students see all notes..." - i don't think it is a bug (If you work on cooperative task it is great as it is), but would be great if I as a teacher could create some notes, students could move it but only for themselfs not for all students.
- About "locking notes one by one" - I see it as a feature for both, teacher and student. Teacher creates notes, lock them for student. Student can see them and can create his own notes and lock them for others. Others can vote for his note and placement.
- About background - Sure ti needs more research on this. I managed it changing using CSS - thank you for naming the columns ;)
If you wish i can send you a picture how it looks css hacked
- Cooperative mode (free mode): It can work like you have it now. So anyone can move, anyone cad add, remove etc. But still, locking one by one would be great even in this mode. Voting could be enabled also for locked notes.
- Competitive mode (fun mode): Students and Teacher can see and use whole board (except notes, columns locked by teacher). The Students places notes (each student has its own color) for their own decisions, they can add new notes but not move notes of others. Students can create copy of notes of others (maybe by moving it, or copy button). Other students can vote for notes of others where these votes are taken as they would create their own note with same text. Teacher can grade it, or not (also with using smilies). Teacher can send some feedback to students with notes with same text.
- Personal mode: It can stay as it is with a possibility for teacher to create notes locked for student. No changes done by student would be visible to other students, only visible to teacher.
I hope I did not make your head heavy :D
wow, that makes a lot for my brain ! :D
All these features are very interesting, but that would be a work for a whole new version I think... Sticky Notes wasn't thought in a way to integrate modes, But it would be a great idea ! I keep it in mind for the future.
Thank you very much for your message !
Olivier
as soon as possible !
I didn't test Sticky Notes on Moodle 4.4 for now, so I don't now yet the amount of work it will need. I will work on it for sure !
Olivier
no fix yet... I must install a Moodle 4.5 version first ! I'll do it as quick as I can, I must first see what changed exactly.
Stay tuned !
Olivier
Let's note !
Olivier