Moodle Plugins directory: Live Report: Comments

Saturday, 29 April 2023, 2:08 AM - Bill Junkin

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 18:08:42 GMT

by Bill Junkin.

Hi, Herman, I have just published the latest version of Live Report and it works for Moodle 4.0+!!! Thanks for your question and your interest in Live Report. I have been working with people from both the webbuster team (https://www.webbuster.co.uk/education/wb-education) and
Franco (who is working on geogebra question types) to make the Live Report module run faster, look better, handle pictures, etc. Please contact me if you have any questions.

Thursday, 27 April 2023, 4:22 PM - Hermann Landolt

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 08:22:46 GMT

by Hermann Landolt.

Hi Bill
Is there an update planned from your plugin for Moodle 4.1?

Tuesday, 28 June 2022, 5:11 PM - Bryan English E-learning & ADU

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 09:11:31 GMT

by Bryan English E-learning & ADU.

Hi Bill!
I love the look of this plugin - I think it's exactly what I've been looking for!
Will this run on Moodle 3.9?
You have listed it for Versions 3.2-3.8 but then in the Stats section I see that there are 41 sites running 3.9 using Live Report. Just looking for a little clarification before I ask our admins if they can install this for the college where I work.

Tuesday, 18 May 2021, 9:08 AM - Bill Junkin

Tue, 18 May 2021 01:08:00 GMT

by Bill Junkin.

Hi, Jane Cathrine,
(also, I am sharing this information with Al and Dinis via my email, junkinwf@eckerd.edu. You, Jane, are welcome to contact me at this email address also.)
I have finished (I hope) a new version of LIve Report.
For you, Dinis, the pictures that are in the text of any question should now show up properly.
For you, Jane, I think that I have improved the way that text is displayed when students respond with a text response (for example, responding to an essay question).
For you, Al, I think that the colors for RAG are now correct.
For everyone:
A. The table displaying student responses is now displayed in an iframe. When there is a new response from a student, the iframe should refresh automatically but the parent page should not refresh. Al, hopefully this will also refresh properly on the WebBuster site.
B. If a student has clicked on anything in the Moodle site in the last 5 minutes, the background for the student's name should have a green striped background to let the teacher know that the student is active. (As desired, this can be changed to a different time in a future version.)

The LiveReport program has the option to allow teachers to display a page that is appropriate for printing. It also has the option to allow teachers to display detailed information about each question. It is likely that not all of the new features will show up on these two pages.

The new version is available in the github site (https://github.com/wjunkin/moodle-quiz_liveviewgrid) and the zipped version is also available from my Google Drive site at the following link.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N5LDTDq2uRV657mS-2Bx9zSogN9JmIxt/view?usp=sharing

As soon as this version has been checked out by you and we have not found any bugs, I am going to post it on the Moodle site.
So, please report any problems that you find or any suggestions for improvements.
William (Bill) Junkin

Tuesday, 30 March 2021, 4:52 PM - Jane Cathrine

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 08:52:11 GMT

by Jane Cathrine.

First of thank you for your response. I do understand the problems that may arise, although to answer your question I do like how moodle displays the response of the students. If it is possible to retain the line break tags and the tags for typographical emphasis I think that would very much suffice.

Tuesday, 30 March 2021, 12:22 AM - Bill Junkin

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 16:22:20 GMT

by Bill Junkin.

Thanks, Jane,
I'm glad you like this quiz report module.
I think I can do what you request. There are two reasons that the program does not keep all the formatting that the students have in their answers.
1) If the students have several line breaks and/or use large fonts in the answers they submit in essay questions, this can make the spreadsheet table (that displays the students' responses) very long and the teacher will have to do a lot of scrolling to see the responses. This is especially true if the teacher is looking at the responses to all questions rather than looking at the response to just one question.
2) A clever student can include javascript and/or html code into their answers which might mess up the entire display in the teacher's page. Because I don't want this to happen, I have removed most html tags and javascript from the student responses. to be selective about this removal might be tricky and might slow down the program.
However, when Moodle displays the students' responses in the standard quiz reports that are part of the Moodle code program, the Moodle code has to take care of the problems that I mentioned in #1 and #2 above. Question: Are you satisfied with the display that Moodle gives for student responses in the other quiz report modules? If so, I may be able to find out how Moodle handles problems #1 and #2 and include their solution in my module.
Thanks for your suggestions.

Monday, 29 March 2021, 10:38 AM - Jane Cathrine

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 02:38:24 GMT

by Jane Cathrine.

Hi, is there any way we can have configurations on how the answers of the students in an essay question are going to be shown on the teacher's side? In an instance the student used a line break, I would like for the teacher to see the same exact thing also the boldened words are changed to capitalized words on the teachers' side. Nevertheless, great plugin, thank you.

Saturday, 7 March 2020, 10:54 AM - Bill Junkin

Sat, 07 Mar 2020 02:54:09 GMT

by Bill Junkin.

Thanks, Arnoldo, for alerting me to the bug and giving me information that allowed me to find and then fix the bug.

Thursday, 5 March 2020, 6:56 AM - Bill Junkin

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:56:34 GMT

by Bill Junkin.

Hi, Arnoldo,
Thanks for letting me know that you are having a problem. We have Live Report running successfully with Moodle 3.7 and 3.8 as well as with earlier versions. So, I am anxious to find out what is the problem with Live Report on your site and get the problem fixed quickly. So that we can communicate directly about the problem, it may be useful for you to communicate directly with me until we get this fixed and then we can explain the problem and how it was solved here. My email address is junkinwf@eckerd.edu
I am glad that this module is useful and I regret that you are having a problem. Again, I hope you will give me some more information so that I can fix the problem.

Thursday, 5 March 2020, 5:54 AM - Arnoldo Garza

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 21:54:17 GMT

by Arnoldo Garza.

Hello! Just what I needed, a chart where a teacher can see the answers of the students in real time!. Unfortunately, when I install it in my Moodle 3.7 and I try to use it, I cant see the chart bars and at the end an error shows: "Can't find data record in database table lesson." I tried uninstalling it and installing it again, but to no avail.

Thursday, 7 November 2019, 2:54 AM - Bill Junkin

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 18:54:24 GMT

by Bill Junkin.

Thanks, Marco, for your interest in Live Report. In Live Report, the program doesn't change what students see as they are taking a quiz. However, the teacher is free to show the students what the teacher can see. Thus, for questions that Moodle can automatically grade (not essay questions) the teacher can display the teacher view back to the students by using a projector in the classroom. Then if hte teacher turns on the "show grades" option and displays the results back to the students, the students can see their grade in real time (and the grade of the other students in real time) if the teacher choses the "show names" option. I don't know if this answers your questions. Feel free to contact me directly by email (junkinwf@eckerd.edu) if you wish.

Thursday, 7 November 2019, 2:01 AM - marco caparvi

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 18:01:53 GMT

by marco caparvi.

Wonderful plugin, just asking if some kind of percentage aggregator could
be added (like Socrative does) so the students could see their actual
scoring in real time (on one hundred scale).
Anyway thanks for your dedication

Wednesday, 23 October 2019, 7:15 PM - Bill Junkin

Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:15:02 GMT

by Bill Junkin.

Hi, Andrew, I will be happy to help you with this problem, since I want to have the module work on all Moodle sites. You may want to email to me directly, junkinwf@eckerd.edu, rather than using Moodle messaging. I'm glad you like what this module can do.

Wednesday, 23 October 2019, 3:59 PM - Andrew Barrett

Wed, 23 Oct 2019 07:59:33 GMT

by Andrew Barrett.

Hi Bill, this looks like a great tool. Thank you for this. I'm using moodle 3.5 but when I click on live report, I get the spreadsheet but it isn't populating with the answers of the students. Is there a setting somewhere I'm overlooking? I've tried both numerical answers and multiple choice questions in a quiz but not seeing any movement on the spreadsheet.

Sunday, 5 May 2019, 5:20 AM - Bill Junkin

Sat, 04 May 2019 21:20:39 GMT

by Bill Junkin.

Hi, Dinis,
I have found that if there are too many features/options for a program, some teachers are hesitant to use the program. with a few hours of programming I could add two more buttons, a hide/show first name button and the hide/show last name. However, unless there is a big demand for this, I do not plan to add this feature at this time. (There are important pedagogical reasons to allow both show and hide of names.) If you have a school or schools that need this feature, if you let me know I may be able to produce a version of the program that will do this and let those schools use it without posting that version on the Moodle site.