Progress Bar

Dear Michael,
Thanks one again or your hard work and update. This block is really a great tool both for student and teacher, I'm just wondering if I can hide the Progress Bar block when I put it on My Home for teacher view. Basically I'd like the progress bar to be visible for student but not for teacher when I put it on My Home. But if it's not possible, I'm thinking of having summary progress of each course rather than having blocks of rectangle (For example, the summary of group completion percentages of the activities undertaken).
Please find the link to the shared folder for Progress Bar Idea : https://app.box.com/s/hqwdoh50cqsm7fpxfxcjzfafp8csvacz
- Original : Current progress bar view on My Home
- Proposed : The idea of Progress Bar shown at My Home
regards,
Riady

Hi Michael. Great block! The only improvement I can imagine is to integrate the block with activity completion adding the action "Complete" to the action list. That would extend the action possibilities to all considered on the completion conditions.

Thanks for your question, Alex.
I recently made sure that all the hidden activities in the course are hidden in the Progress Bar. Currently the two match.
I suppose there could be a setting that allows the Progress Bar to show hidden activities, but it's a very complicated idea when activities can be hidden for many different reasons (visibility, groups, activity restrictions). If you are really keen on change, please raise an improvement issue in the Tracker and we can discuss it there.
As an immediate workaround, I'd recommend not showing the percentage. It's a very simplified measure and I keep it off by default.

Hello, great block!
When some of my week activities are hidden or shown in gray by some restriccion access, I can add them to the progress bar in the same way as the rest of unrestrictes activities. Then, from the point of view of the students, they don't appear on the progress bar.
Certainly is logical, but some students are shocked after seeing new activities appearing in the progress bar after acomplishing a restriction, so the % progress lowers and the bar grows with a new segment, disappointing them.
I wonder if there is any form of adding all the activities, even they are restricted or not.

Ah yes, but our students also like to know which assignment they still have to finish.
When they have turned assignments in, and the teacher did not have time yet to grade, it is not visible for students.

I'm still not in favour of this.
The Progress Bar is primarily for students. I suggest you provide your markers with a block that shows them what grading tasks need to be completed.

I have asked the same thing, it would be a very welcome addition. I filed a tracker for it here, so please vote for it!
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-5282

Hi Michael,
Is there any plan in the future / near future to include progress indicator of the student submitting the manual grading quiz / assessment but not being marked yet? There are many requests from our facilitators for that feature that might be coming handy to provide quick glimpse on the assessments that are ready to be marked?
Thanks kindly and regards,
Riady

Hi, Chris.
I suspect this has more to do with the server or the way the plugin is installed.
If you do find some information that points to the Progress Bar block as a cause, please raise an issue in the tracker.
Michael.

Ok, it was because I refreshed the page. The original error is still happening :/ I've enabled debugging but no additional info

Hi, Chris.
That message should appear if you went to the Overview page directly, without pressing the button on the block itself. This would be the case if you went to the Overview page, clicked in the URL bar, then pressed enter. Refreshing the page should continue to pass the parameter possibly with a warning about passing parameters again.
This is different to what you suggested earlier.

Hi Michael, If I refresh the page multiple times I get this error:
A required parameter (progressbarid) was missing
More information about this error
Debug info:
Error code: missingparam
Stack trace:
line 463 of /lib/setuplib.php: moodle_exception thrown
line 548 of /lib/moodlelib.php: call to print_error()
line 33 of /blocks/progress/overview.php: call to required_param()

Hi, Chris.
It sounds like there is a file missing, but I'm not sure how.
Could you please turn on debugging and see if you get more information? That might help you.
If you get more detail and think this is a bug, could you please create an issue on tracker.moodle.org? That's the best place to handle this.
Michael

I've been using this plugin for about a year, it's great! However, after having migrated to a bigger server and upgrading progress bar plugin we get the following error when clicking 'overview of students':
"Service Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."
The strange thing is that it still works for some courses!

Hi, Alosies.
You can be selective about which items appear in the block. One possible solution would be to set up multiple blocks, one for each week, then to show/hide the blocks as needed.