Blocks: Course dedication
Aday TalaveraIntroduction
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, so students aren't going to see it and their dedication time. However, 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 views:
- Dedication time of the course: calculates total dedication time, mean dedication time and connections per day for each student.
- Dedication time of a group: the same but only for choosed group members.
- Dedication of a student: detailed sessions for a student with start date & time, duration and ip.
The tools have a link to download all data in spreadsheet format. The use is restricted by a capability to teachers and admins only. The table presentation is improved with Twitter Bootstrap styles if current theme inherits from bootstrapbase theme.
This block cannot be used in the site page, only in courses pages.
All texts in English and Spanish (AMOS).
Moodle automatic updates
If Moodle notifies you about updating this block and offer you two versions, always use the latest version which is tagged as "reset". That is the new Moodle 2 version as seen in the screenshots and have all the features.
Support
Support is offered in English and Spanish in these forum discussions:
- English discussion: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=109487
- Spanish discussion: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=109489
Code repository: https://bitbucket.org/ciceidev/moodle_block_dedication
Issues: https://bitbucket.org/ciceidev/moodle_block_dedication/issues
Credits
This block was developed by CICEI at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University.
First version for Moodle 1.9 by Borja Rubio Reyes.
Updated and improved version for Moodle 2 by Aday Talavera Hierro.
Useful links
Screenshots
Daniel
Daniel
Do you propose we quickly your block for Moodle 2.6?
Thank you in advance.
Daniel
We are working in a major update of this block along with users suggestions posted in the forums and here.
We hope to release it soon.
Note: as a side effect translation changed a lot and we needed to delete all of them except English and Spanish, as these are the only languages we can translate.
Please look at http://lang.moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=2485 :
"From now on, whenever a maintainer publishes a new version of their contributed plugin, strings are automatically sent via a web service to the AMOS. This process respects the supported Moodle version setting so the strings appear at the correct Moodle branch in AMOS.
This works for new plugins that will be uploaded into Plugins in the future, too. With the exception that the strings appear in AMOS only after when the plugin is approved as a part of its validation.
This new mechanism works for all plugins that were uploaded into the Plugins directory and are written for Moodle 2.0 and higher. Contributed plugin maintainers are now encouraged to transfer all their current code to this new scheme:
The plugin code itself should now contain just the English strings in the /lang/en folder.
All other translations are to be maintained via AMOS and you as the plugin maintainer do not need to look after them any more! Translated strings for contributed plugins are part of the standard language packs generated by AMOS.
If your plugin code currently contains some translation, you (as the plugin maintainer) should submit it as a contribution into AMOS prior to dropping it from your plugin's source code. AMOS stage page provides a form to upload strings from an existing PHP file. You are supposed to import all non-English string files you currently have shipped with your plugin (eg. /lang/cs/yourmodule.php) into the AMOS stage and then submit them language pack maintainers.
We believe that this new procedure will make translation of contributed plugins much easier than it ever been - for both the plugin maintainer and translators, too.
Should you have any questions regarding this new feature, do not hesitate to ask in AMOS support forum at this site."
That means that you should not include the Spanish translation within the lang folder of your plugin. You can send it to the language pack maintainer (Benito Arias).
Thanks.
If you use spanish translations, you should go to languages admin panel and use reload local translations option.
I have Moodle 2.4 and course dedication 2012020105 currently installed.
It notifies me to install :
- 2014021400 for Moodle 2.x : https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversion.php?id=5409
or
- 2014030401 for moodle "reset" : https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversion.php?id=5537
Which of them should I use and why ? I didn't understood the difference, only in translation ?
Will the times computed be the same ?
Thank you, and thanks for your work.
In the latest version, all contributed transalations were lost, and only spanish translation is in the AMOS right now.