Progress Bar
Maintained by
Michael de Raadt
A time management tool for you and your students
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This plugin is of great help. I just wanted to know if there is anyway we can let the plugin track only the quizzes, lessons and other instances of the current week (say Monday to sunday). Our course has a huge number of quizzes and the progress bar looks very cluttered if we track the whole course. TIA
It is possible to customise the strings used by the Progress Bar block as you do with any strings in Moodle. See the following page for a guide...
https://docs.moodle.org/en/Language_customisation
Be careful what you change, though. The meaning of attempted and completed are different and may relate to different activities. It may be more correct to modify the conditions that lead to the levels you want, but this requires code modifications. I have tried to make such modifications simple by putting them together in an array in the lib.php file. The downside of code modifications is that it will conflict with future Progress Bar block upgrades.
We'd like to change the 'Attempted' label on the progress bar to 'completed'. Any suggestions on how that might be accomplished?
Thanks,
Paul
The actions differ for different activities. Perhaps I could add some help for that in a generic way. To answer your specific question, though, "finished" is a specific state of a Questionnaire activity where the user has finished the survey, "activity completion" is applicable to all activities if turned on (it's an advanced feature). For activity completion you set conditions in the activity's settings.
For not-completed vs future-not-completed, the difference is that the former is overdue and the latter is work that can be done later. The distinction is whether the event's deadline is in the past or the future.
Currently the block is set up in a common way and is visible to all students in a course. Within that it does show individual students their own individual progress.
Is that what you mean, or do you want to be able to have the ability to set up different Progress Bar blocks to show to individual students? There is a request to allow a teacher to specify which group/grouping the block is visible to, which could allow you to have different blocks for different groups (see https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-4903).
Michael.
That is an image of the Progress Bar on the My Home page. It collates the Progress Bars from various courses into a single block for the student.
In a course it is possible to have multiple Progress Bar blocks, if you wish to have different content monitored in each. I recommend that for long courses with lots of assessment.
Michael.
In Image 4 for this plugin, there's 3 individual progress bars within 1 block.
How do I do this? I've only ever been able to add one progress bar per block.
Thanks in advance.
Jona
It should limit the view to groups that a user can see if they don't have the permission to view all groups. If that's not working, please create an issue on tracker.moodle.org and I'll look into it.
Michael.
I love this plugin, it's really a great one. I'm using it now for a number of cohorts/groups within the same course, and in the progress bar overview teachers can access the student progress bar overview for other cohorts/groups as well. I can't seem to find how to switch this off to maintain student data privacy by limiting it to the cohorts/groups that the teacher is enrolled in. What am I missing here?
Thanks!
Tal
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "automatically". Perhaps you could elaborate on that.
Look back in the comments on this page from 3 Nov for details of how and where the block's configuration is stored.
Michael.