Moodle Plugins Directory: Progress Bar

Hi Micheal, I am using your plugin and it's great! but I would like to know if it's only based on sections? cause I would to have a progress bar based on the questions of a quiz .. is this possible and how? Thank you

Hi Michael, I posted this question in the forums too. I am hoping you can help. We have the progress bar block installed in Moodle 2.5. We also use groups and groupings to display set assignments to students based on their grouping. My problem is the Progress bar seems to pull ALL assignments through and not recognise those relevent to only a certain grouping. I really like this block for its simplicity for staff and students but find this really limiting. Do you have any suggestions about how I might fix this scenario?
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Hi, Fiona.

There has been a similar request recently. Check out...

https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-4903

Is there by any chance a way to disable the Progress Bar from linking to activities and resources? This is a great plugin. But when a user clicks on an activity in our Progress Bar it shows up on its own page rather than on our the main course page.

Hi, Whitney.

There isn't a simple way to stop the links to course activities/resources without altering the code. I'm not sure why you would want to do that.

I'm not sure what you mean about pages showing up on their own page. The links from the Progress Bar are the same as those on the course page, so they open in the same way.

Most of my activities are URL's (linked to vimeo videos) which, when clicked from the course, popup in their own browser.

But when clicked from the Progress Bar, the URL-link-activity appears on its own page, which then says "Click the Link to open the resource".

Then the user has to navigate back (in the breadcrumbs or navigation block) to the main course page to get back to the course flow again. So it creates some extra steps.

Hi, Whitney.

Thanks for elaborating. You are correct that the Progress Bar does not respect the settings that control how a resource is to be displayed.

I've opened an issue on tracker for that...

https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-4954

Michael,

I love this plugin, and we use it extensively to monitor the independent learning portion of our courses. We have recently upgraded to Moodle 2.6.1, and I have noticed something strange about the Progress Bar. I've configured to block to track the assignments. I've also set dates for when the tasks are expected. Usually the Progress Bar will turn red only if the student hasn't completed the task before the due date. However, at the moment my Progress Bar is showing red even though the assignment due date is not for another few weeks. Any ideas why this might be?

Hi, I have a quick question .. so I modified the progress bar .. Is there a way to forbid the progress bar plugin to upgrade and erase my changes? I thought about changing the version number in the version.php? Thanx

Hi.

I'm glad you were able to customise the Progress Bar block to suit your circumstances. I recommend you use Git to pull changes from my GitHub repository. This will help you manage conflicts between your code and my updates. Alternately, you could rename the block (directory and in the lang file), which would allow you to have your version independent of my original.

Hello Michael,

I see there is a ne wversion available. Can you tell me what the differences are?

Hi, Mitchell.

The new version includes global configuration of the colours used in the Progress Bar. It was in relation to https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-4989

Thanks for asking.

Thanks Michael!

Hi Michael, I am new to moodle and have installed your plugin (which is fantastic by the way) However, I need it to display on the home page and not only just the course pages? Is there any possible way I can do this? Thank you in advance

Hi, Angelique.

The block is limited to being displayed on course pages because that is where the activities are. How do you envisage this would be used on the site home (or did you mean the "My home" page)?