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Course dedication
Blocks ::: block_dedication
Maintained by 
Dan Marsden, 
Catalyst IT
This block allows to calculate estimated dedication time of participants within a course.
Latest release:
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Current versions available: 6
This block allows to see the estimated dedication time to a Moodle course by the participants of the course.
How dedication time is estimated?
Time is estimated based in the concepts of Session and Session duration applied to Moodle's log entries:
- Click: every time that a user access to a page in Moodle a log entry is stored.
- Session: set of two or more consecutive clicks in which the elapsed time between every pair of consecutive clicks does not overcome an established maximum time.
- Session duration: elapsed time between the first and the last click of the session.
Features
This block is intended to be used only by teachers, however the block can be configured to show dedication time to students too.
Teachers can use a tool to analyse dedication time within a course. The tool provides three reporting methods:
- Dedication time of the course: calculates total dedication time, mean dedication time and connections per day for each student, which you can filter by course group if required.
- Dedication of a student: detailed sessions for a student with start date & time, duration and ip.
- Report builder source: The plugin includes a custom report builder source to allow for site-level reporting to be generated.
Credits
- Originally developed by Aday Talavera, CICEI at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University
- Updated to support Moodle 1.9 - Moodle 3.X by Borja Rubio Reyes.
- Support for Moodle 4.0 including the work to support the new repotbuilder api was sponsored by the University of Canterbury.
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Contributors
Dan Marsden (Lead maintainer)
Catalyst IT
Borja Rubio Reyes: previous author
Aday Talavera: previous maintainer
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Congratulations! It's a great plugin! But I'd like to know if we can to get the informations not only of the students and tutors, but of the teacher too, and how can I do this.
I am using the new version of Dedication with custom reports.
The time spent on a course is provided in the standard format when downloaded as a CSV, such as 1 hour 16 min, 2 hours 10 min, or 6 min 50 s, etc.
Is it possible to change the format somewhere so that it is displayed as 00:00:00 (HH:MM:SS) to allow summing up the durations for a participant in the export table?
Direct conversion from the table is a nightmare to program, as it's impossible to account for the different formats provided.
Dans le fichier blocks/dedication/classes/local/entities/dedication.php
en remplaçant la ligne 101 par :
$format = gmdate("H:i:s", $value);
ou alors en la remplaçant simplement par :
$format = $value;
pour obtenir le nombre de secondes
Penser à vider les caches.
I'd like to suggest as improvements:
1. the possibility of filtering a user without the need for them to be in a group;
2. inclusion of a filter where we could select users by role (students, teachers, tutors, etc.).
one setting im not sure about is the "Session limit" setting. What does it exactly? Cant seem to find anything more explaining than the text below "Session limit for the report page filters" and i cant find out what it means.
Anyone who knows what i does?
may I ask if there is a 4.5 version in your plans?