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Monitoring of learning plans
Introduction
The main goal of this plugin is to facilitate the work of learning plan managers. It provides an overview of user learning plan, without leaving the page to get information related to this learning plan (such as rating in courses, user evidence, etc.) It also offers statistics by learning plans and competencies. For learning plan templates with a very large number of learning plans (generated from cohorts), this plugin is the best solution, with its advanced filters, it allows you to filter the learning plans by several criterias.
Plugin configuration
Role and permissions
This plugin can be used in system or category context. The user using this plugin in the category must have these permissions:
- moodle/competency:competencyview
- moodle/competency:coursecompetencyview
- moodle/competency:usercompetencyview
- moodle/competency:competencygrade
- moodle/competency:planview
- moodle/competency:planmanage
- moodle/competency:templateview
Note that planview is always set in user context level. Thus, we must assign a user to a cohort using Site administration/Users/Permissions/Assign user roles to cohort
so he will have the "moodle/competency:planview" of every member of that
specific cohort (must wait for the next cron execution to take effect).
Color configuration
To fully benefit from the reports, a color must be associated to each value of the scale. To set the scale values colors, you must have "moodle/competency:competencymanage" permission. Here are the steps :
- Go on "Home / ► Site administration / ► Competencies / ► Competencies scale colors"
- Choose a framework competency
- Choose a scale from framework competency
- Set the colors values using the ColorPicker
- Save the changes
That's it, now the colors are set and ready to be used in the reports pages.
Monitoring of learning plans page
In a category context or system context go on Reports / ► Monitoring of learning plans
Filter
Filtering helps us find a user's learning plan. Here are the steps:
By learning plan template
From a learning plan template, we can filter learning plans.
- Select a template
- From "Student using this template", select a user
- click on "Apply"
You will see the learning plan of the student selected, and you can navigate between learning plan based on that template. If there is no student selected, the first student from the template will be displayed.
By clicking on "show more...", you can have more options to filter learning plans by scales values.
There are two options for using scales values filter
- Filtering learning plans by scale values from competencies rated at course level
- Filtering learning plans by scales values from competencies rated in the plan (Final rating)
When filtering by scales values, the number of rating in the student list will be displayed:
By user
We can choose a particular student by typing his name in the user picker field in order to retrieve his learning plans
Learning plan detail
The details of the learning plan is divided into three blocks:
1.User navigation
This block contain the following informations:
- The learning plan name: link to the learning plan page
- The user full name and a profile picture: link to the user profile page
- The navigation between users that belong to the selected template.
2.Learning plan competencies informations
This block displays the following informations:
- The plan's status and the number of competencies that are rated proficient on the total number of competencies of the plan
- The number competencies that are rated not proficient
- The number of competencies that are not rated
3.List competencies details
This part has three blocks
Total number of rating
It display the number of courses linked to the competency and wherein the user is enrolled. Clicking on the number will trigger a popup containing the list of courses linked to the competency and if the competency was rated in this course or not.
Also, this block displays the number of evidences of prior learning. You can have more details on the list of evidences by clicking on this number
Rating
This block displays the number of rated courses by scale value. Clicking on this number triggers a popup that displays the course name, comments left by the teacher and the final course grade.
Final rating
This block gives us details about the final rating (rating in learning plan) :
- If the competency is proficient, not proficient or not rated
- The rated scale value (if rated)
- A button to rate the competency if the user has the permission
Statistics for learning plans
This page provides statistics for learning plans. It groups statistics by competency for a given template. For each competency we display the total users in template and number of users by scale value. To get this page, go on Reports / ► Statistics for learning plans
Total users
Clicking on the "Total users" number triggers a popup with the list of all the users related to this competency. It shows if each user has been rated.
Number of users by scale value
It displays the number of users rated with a given scale value for the competency.
Monitoring of learning plans for users (students)
This page gives the user the ability to keep track of his learning plans with all the details mentioned above. To get this page go to the user profile page and click on Monitoring of learning plans in the reports block.
To display the report, the user must select a learning plan and click on "Apply"
New features for lpmonitoring v1.3
Allow tagging of learning plans
- Manages tags for learning plans
- Filter by tag
Manage comments directly in the report page
The block comment in the learning plan page (core) is now available in the report page, and we can filter by users having at least one comment.
User list navigation
A collapsible block was added, containing the resulting user list from search and filters, so we can easily navigate between users. That way, we are not limited to the next/previous buttons of the main learning plan bar.
Resetting competencies of a learning plan
We can reset all competencies of a learning plan: this will reset the value of rating but the evidences will be kept.
We can also make a reset on single competency.
Bulk rating in competencies for all users learning plans of learning plan template
This feature allows to rate competencies for all users learning plan of learning plan template.A scale value can be chosen for each competency. Note that rated students won't be impacted : to force ratings, tick "Force rating of users already rated" option. The ratings will take effect in the next passage of the CRON.
Report tab
It shows ratings in courses in a table display, that can be filtered by competency, course name or/and scale value.
You have to add an evidence with the core functionnality (via the User profile > Learning plans > Evidence of prior learning). Than, link competencies to this evidence.
Then, lpmonitoring will show you the evidence :
- in the "In the details" tab when you toggle a competency to open its details (this will only show for competencies that are linked to evidences)
- in the "Report" tab you have a "Evidence of prior learning" column with the number of evidences for each competency
Which one of those does not work for you?
For your other question, sorry, we do not plan to develop export options in a near future. Maybe some other plugins have this functionnality...
Marie-Eve
I am trying to install this plugin but was not able to. I got this error message:
Install plugin from ZIP file
Validating report_lpmonitoring ...
core_plugin/corrupted_archive_structure
More information about this error
Thank you for helping!
I 'm having the same issue as Richard Bergemann "Unexpected property plans" error at report section.
Have posted on your github forum, would be great if you could help. Thanks!
I just released a new version of the plugin (v1.4). It should solve this issue and offer a couple of new functionnalities.
Let me know if it works for you.
Marie-Eve
Another question, after clicking one of the "Not rated" item, the User Competency Summary pops up. However it's not possible to rate it. Is this a bug or unimplemented feature?
It is an unimplemented feature. This is because in our university, the report is usually used by appreciators but the ratings in the courses are made by the teachers. The appreciator can't rate at the course level, so we do not need to have this button. We do not plan on implementing it for now, sorry.
But the course name in the first row is a link to the page where this rating can be made, so you can make the evaluation easily anyway.
Marie-Eve
We are testing in 3.8. It is very good. Is there a way that report displays in User dashboard? directly?
No it is not possible in the dashboard directly. I think you could program a simple block with a link to report/lpmonitoring/userreport.php?userid=ID where ID is the id of the current user.
There is already this link in the user profile, but nothing in the dashboard.
Marie-Eve
We've just built 3.9. When will the plugin become available for this version. It looks like the plugin we've been looking for.
Unfortunately, at our university we won't migrate to 3.9 for at least a few months, maybe more, so we can't work on this for the moment.
But, from the stats I can see that 67 sites are using it with 3.9, so maybe it already work? If you try it, please let me know if it works or if you find any problem.
Thanks,
Marie-Eve
lpmonitoring only adds reports to have a better view of the user competencies. It is completely based on the core competencies functionnalities.
I am not sure to understand your question correctly... You want to know if the competency can be rated automatically based on some data from the course? If so, no it is not possible in lpmonitoring. I think it is not possible via core functionnalities either, but you better ask in the competencies forum : https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=8266
We (the developers of this plugin) don't use Moodle workplace ourselves so we do not have plans to upgrade it to work with tenants. For the moment I don't know enough about this to know if it would be hard or not... Maybe it could already be achieved with roles and capabilities? Since competencies and learning plans can be managed at the course category level, if each tenant has his own categories, maybe the report can be limited by tenant? See the "Role and permissions" above, maybe there is something there that could help you?
Also, what about competencies without lpmonitoring, in moodle workplace? Are tenants taken into consideration? Since lpmonitoring is just a report on top of core competencies, if the core competencies take tenants into consideration, it would probably be not so hard to do it in lpmonitoring. If not, it would be much harder.
Marie-Eve