Activities: Checklist
This is a Moodle activity module for Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.0+ that allows a teacher to create a checklist / todo list / task list for their students to work through. The teacher can monitor all the students' progress, as they tick off each of the items in the list. Items can be indented and marked as optional. Students are presented with a simple bar showing how far they have progressed through the required/optional items and can add their own, private, items to the list.
Features include:
- Choose whether students or teachers can check-off items
- Students can add their own notes to their checklist
- Dates can be added to items (and exported to the calendar)
- Teachers can comment on an individual student's items
- Progress is exported to the gradebook
- Choice of colours for each checklist item
- Heading items (without checkboxes)
- (Optional) Import list of current course activities and automatically check-off as activities completed
There are two other plugins that further enhance this activity:
Video overview of this plugin:
The latest version (and the Moodle 1.9 version) can always be found here: https://github.com/davosmith/moodle-checklist (the version on Moodle.org will be updated from time to time)
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I don't tend to actively add new features to my plugins any more - working full-time with Moodle code means I'm rarely up for more than occasional bug fixes in my spare time.
If you're wanting new features adding, then I'm probably only going to do so if there is funding available for me to do this as part of my day job (or you could find another developer who's willing to write the feature and, assuming it is well written, I can look at adding it to the official code).
Davo
The rules governing the availability of different activities to different users are complex, so it's hard for the checklist to keep track of them. There used to be a 'grouping availability' feature built-in to Moodle which the checklist supported, but that has been replaced with a much more flexible system, which I've never supported directly in the checklist.
In theory I could probably work out a way to support this, but I'm not likely to spend any of my free time on it soon (the progress calculations will become a lot more complex if I need to check the visibility of each checklist item per user).
Thank you for your reply. I just wanted to make sure that this is the way the plugin is working.
Really like the plugin, thank you. Just one thing. Currently when a user completes a checklist and I have "send email to Student and Teacher" selected every User Administrator in the system is getting the email. Is there a setting somewhere where this can be changed?
Many Thanks
James
The 'teacher' emails are only sent to users with the capability 'mod/checklist:emailoncomplete', which is, by default, allocated to the 'teacher' and 'editingteacher' roles.
I don't know how your 'user administrator' role is configured, but, if you remove this capability from it, they will no longer get such emails.
That's great thank you. All fixed.
I'm not sure what I can do to investigate this.
The code in question, does the following when the checklist is complete:
* Check the user hasn't already completed the checklist in the last hour (so they can't just hammer a tick box to spam lots of emails)
* Ask Moodle to provide a list of users with capability 'mod/checklist:emailoncomplete' for this activity (or the course / category / system contexts above this), these are the teachers to notify
* Send an email to the student (if notify student / notify both selected)
* Send an email to each of the teachers identified (if notify teacher / notify both selected)
So, for someone to incorrectly receive any email then either the 'emailoncomplete' capability has been allocated to the wrong person OR the core get_users_by_capability() function is going wrong. Most of that function was last updated in 2011, but there are a couple of lines that changed early 2017. I would be very surprised if there was an undiscovered bug in there, but I could be wrong.
I'm not aware of any reason why updating this plugin would be any different to any other plugin available on Moodle.org. I suggest you double-check your directory permissions for the plugin on your server or let me know the exact error message you get when you try to update.
Thanks
I continue to think about the use i can have with this activity and i have identifed 2 :
* To validate the progress of a project. But in this case the project is made by several students and it would be usefull if the check could be done for a group
* To auto-evaluate "competences" by students but just at a course level. In this case it would be usefull to have the possibility to check more than 2 states. Currently each item to ckeck have 2 states "done" "not done" but it could be "perfectly" "partially" "not at all" or more
I think that what i imagine is not possible ...
Eric
As I spend my working day writing Moodle code, I don't often want to spend my evenings doing it as well. Realistically, the only way I will get around to adding new features is if it is paid work that I can do during my working day.
I never like it to come down to money, but it is either that, or donating my free time to write these features (which I did in the first place to create the plugins and I still do in order to make sure they keep working with each Moodle release).