Technical Project

Activities ::: mod_techproject
Maintained by Valery Fremaux
The "techproject" activity module provides a complete project driving tool, IEEE compliant, in a pedagogical environment, for real project use or for pedagogical approach of project management.
Latest release:
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Current versions available: 11

CHANGE :   We have spent time enough to use Moodle Plugin Maintenance API to support automated plugin update chain from our internal development workflow.

This "techproject" activity module is intended to give a complete project driving tool in a pedagogical environment, allowing to teach first principles of pragmatic project management to students through standard steps that are

  • collecting needs as requirements,
  • describing solution with specifications,
  • and controlling development task within a milestone schedule
  • for providing deliverables
  • that will be reviewed and validated

Its goal is to fit moodle with a fully featured project management tool that could either be used to manage real projects, or drive student projects as a project based pedagogy.

Description entities are tree-shaped, thus improving continuous refinement method.

Techproject is "group" aware, and will allow each course group to form an independant team to drive his own worktrack.

Skills developped

  • Ability to describe in details using continuous refinement thinking
  • What is a requirement
  • What is a specification
  • How to monitor project coverage and progress
  • How to plan project in a global schedule (milestoning)
  • How to qualify and define tasks
  • How to make a cost study
  • How to consider risk
  • How to distribute work among a team
  • The benefit of information relationship and consistant indicators binding
  • How to proper drive a validation review

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Contributors

Valery Fremaux (Lead maintainer)
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  • Nyree Williams
    Mon, 1 Oct 2012, 4:02 PM
    Yes, I'm using a wide screen, I teach English to French engineers and we use a variety of screen resolutions in the universities.
    it would be great if the techproject tables were a % of the screen rather than fixed width
  • Valery Fremaux
    Mon, 1 Oct 2012, 10:06 PM
    sure, i check that and come back to you
  • Valery Fremaux
    Thu, 4 Oct 2012, 4:16 AM
    Found the guilty rule : remove CSS rule block in style.css and all will layout again correctly....
  • Valery Fremaux
    Thu, 4 Oct 2012, 4:16 AM
    sorry : line 400
  • Elizabeth Dalton
    Thu, 13 June 2013, 9:38 PM
    It looks like this will need some work for 2.4:

    Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: PAGE->yui2_lib() is not available any more, use YUI 2in3 instead, see MDL-34741 for more information.
  • Valery Fremaux
    Thu, 13 June 2013, 9:49 PM
    thanks, i see... this YUI implementation is becoming more than opaque to high functional level developpers..... hope i will find a way....
  • ajpoleo
    Tue, 7 Jan 2014, 2:54 AM
    Hi Valery... I'm running version 2.6 .. any new about the above coding error? .... PAGE->yui2_lib() is not available any more, use YUI 2in3 instead, see MDL-34741 for more information
  • Valery Fremaux
    Tue, 7 Jan 2014, 5:38 AM
    Hi Armando, Techproject review for passing everythin to JQuery Ajax is in progress. I'm not sure the module is completely stable yet but i can release candidate code for tests....
  • Rupert Martin
    Thu, 24 Apr 2014, 8:26 AM
    I am using moodle 2.6 and I am getting an error below when I tried installing this plugin. How can you help?

    Invalid get_string() identifier: 'modulename' or component 'mod_lang'. Perhaps you are missing $string['modulename'] = ''; in mod/lang/lang/en/lang.php?
    line 293 of /lib/classes/string_manager_standard.php: call to debugging()
    line 6828 of /lib/moodlelib.php: call to core_string_manager_standard->get_string()
    line 64 of /lib/classes/plugininfo/mod.php: call to get_string()
    line 131 of /lib/classes/plugininfo/base.php: call to core\plugininfo\mod->init_display_name()
    line 88 of /lib/classes/plugininfo/base.php: call to core\plugininfo\base::make_plugin_instance()
    line 368 of /lib/classes/plugin_manager.php: call to core\plugininfo\base::get_plugins()
    line 33 of /admin/settings/plugins.php: call to core_plugin_manager->get_plugins_of_type()
    line 6389 of /lib/adminlib.php: call to require()
    line 3515 of /lib/navigationlib.php: call to admin_get_root()
    line 3372 of /lib/navigationlib.php: call to settings_navigation->load_administration_settings()
    line 717 of /lib/pagelib.php: call to settings_navigation->initialise()
    line 734 of /lib/pagelib.php: call to moodle_page->magic_get_settingsnav()
    line 109 of /blocks/admin_bookmarks/block_admin_bookmarks.php: call to moodle_page->__get()
    line 296 of /blocks/moodleblock.class.php: call to block_admin_bookmarks->get_content()
    line 238 of /blocks/moodleblock.class.php: call to block_base->formatted_contents()
    line 956 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_base->get_content_for_output()
    line 1008 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_manager->create_block_contents()
    line 353 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_manager->ensure_content_created()
    line 6 of /theme/boxxie/layout/general.php: call to block_manager->region_has_content()
    line 866 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to include()
    line 796 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to core_renderer->render_page_layout()
    line 2559 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to core_renderer->header()
    line 362 of /lib/setuplib.php: call to core_renderer->fatal_error()
    line 1158 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to default_exception_handler()
    line 1592 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_handle_exception()
    line 431 of /admin/index.php: call to upgrade_noncore()
    Invalid get_string() identifier: 'modulename' or component 'mod_mod'. Perhaps you are missing $string['modulename'] = ''; in mod/mod/lang/en/mod.php?
    line 293 of /lib/classes/string_manager_standard.php: call to debugging()
    line 6828 of /lib/moodlelib.php: call to core_string_manager_standard->get_string()
    line 64 of /lib/classes/plugininfo/mod.php: call to get_string()
    line 131 of /lib/classes/plugininfo/base.php: call to core\plugininfo\mod->init_display_name()
    line 88 of /lib/classes/plugininfo/base.php: call to core\plugininfo\base::make_plugin_instance()
    line 368 of /lib/classes/plugin_manager.php: call to core\plugininfo\base::get_plugins()
    line 33 of /admin/settings/plugins.php: call to core_plugin_manager->get_plugins_of_type()
    line 6389 of /lib/adminlib.php: call to require()
    line 3515 of /lib/navigationlib.php: call to admin_get_root()
    line 3372 of /lib/navigationlib.php: call to settings_navigation->load_administration_settings()
    line 717 of /lib/pagelib.php: call to settings_navigation->initialise()
    line 734 of /lib/pagelib.php: call to moodle_page->magic_get_settingsnav()
    line 109 of /blocks/admin_bookmarks/block_admin_bookmarks.php: call to moodle_page->__get()
    line 296 of /blocks/moodleblock.class.php: call to block_admin_bookmarks->get_content()
    line 238 of /blocks/moodleblock.class.php: call to block_base->formatted_contents()
    line 956 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_base->get_content_for_output()
    line 1008 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_manager->create_block_contents()
    line 353 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_manager->ensure_content_created()
    line 6 of /theme/boxxie/layout/general.php: call to block_manager->region_has_content()
    line 866 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to include()
    line 796 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to core_renderer->render_page_layout()
    line 2559 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to core_renderer->header()
    line 362 of /lib/setuplib.php: call to core_renderer->fatal_error()
    line 1158 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to default_exception_handler()
    line 1592 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_handle_exception()
    line 431 of /admin/index.php: call to upgrade_noncore()
  • Valery Fremaux
    Thu, 24 Apr 2014, 3:22 PM
    This : mod/lang/lang/en/lang.php
    makes me think the plugin may be not correctly installed.
    there is no reason you have such a path in moodle.
    Technproject should reside in /mod/techproject folder
    Is that the case ?
  • Laetitia Nienaber-Oosthuizen
    Sun, 20 July 2014, 3:04 AM
    Cannot add tasks at all, user is admin with full rights, using Moodle version 2.7, tested adding task in Clean and Essential Themes, tested adding task in course format Topics and OneTopic, tested adding task with Separate Groups and No Groups. All fail to Add Task.
    Debug Error Message reads: xx/techproject/task.php on line 32 Warning: include(/mod/techproject/edit_task.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in xx/mod/techproject/task.php on line 32 Warning: include(): Failed opening '/mod/techproject/edit_task.php' for inclusion
  • Valery Fremaux
    Mon, 21 July 2014, 1:04 AM
    Yeah, some silly quick fix that should have taken into account my weak "r" key.... quick fix : on task.php line 32 tell "dirroot" and not "diroot". Note that Techproject is NOT YET reviewed for moodle 2.7 version and some obsolescence may appear.... cheers
  • Janko Harej
    Tue, 14 Mar 2017, 5:36 PM
    hi, is there any plan to upgrade this plugin for moodle 3.2? thanks for reply and bye
  • Ger Tielemans
    Fri, 19 May 2017, 9:06 PM
    Hi Valery, I like the module and try to use it but have one problem. Ist is now 2017 and I try to add some dates in 2016, but the module does not allow that: where can I change that? (other forms in other plugins and core allow earlier dates.)
  • 1997年の頃の写真です
    Tue, 4 July 2017, 8:58 PM
    Hi valery! I found out a bug, and I reported detail to Github: https://github.com/vfremaux/moodle-mod_techproject/issues/7
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