Progress Bar

Hi, Jason.
It is possible for users to add the Progress Bar block to their My home page. You'll need a recent version of the block to do that.
Michael.

We're currently using this block and love it inside courses. In the screenshot section, it looks like the Progress Bar can aggregate progress across a number of courses. We'd love to use this feature, just wondering how to achieve it. Doesn't look like we can add it to the user's home page.

Hi, all.
I've been on holidays and am catching up.
Riady: I suggest you put the students in the course into separate groups. You can then view the groups separately on the Overview page.
Stephen: The block should follow the due date automatically if the block is "locked" to the deadline. If not, you can manually change the date in the block's configuration. It's hard for me to test with TurnItIn as that is a proprietary code. Let me know how you go with that.
Mitja: Yes, that is the behaviour you should be seeing. The previous behaviour was a bug that was resolved in https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-5264. The block needs to show the same things that can be seen in the course page. If you think this fix is not working properly, please let me know.

I'a using the latest progress bar in Moodle 2.7. If I set 2 quizzes to be shown in the progress bar without access restriction settings, both are shown. But if I restrict second quiz with the access restriction that first quiz must be complete with the pass grade, then only one is shown in the progress bar?
Is that OK? Since in our old moodle 2.4 all the quizzes were shown, no mater the restrict access options/settings?
Thanks...

I'm using a progress bar and after I've changed by dates for a turnitin assignment the progress bar doesn't update. How do I refresh the progress bar to pick up changed assignment dates?
many thanks

Hi Michael,
Thank you very much for your progress bar. This is a very good tool to use both by student and teacher to monitor the course progress.
At the moment, I'm using multiple instances of progress bar to monitor different activities within the same course. This is due to having multiple units within the course - for example, in the retail course, it contains unit on retail management, visual merchandising and sales management. I'm using the progress bar for individual unit activities and it works great. But, when I select "Overview of students", I cannot refer to what unit I'm monitoring. If there is any space where I can provide description within the students overview progress bar, that would be great.
If the feature has already been there, would you mind to guide me to activate it.
regards,
Riady Santoso

Hi, Elton.
Thanks for the feedback.
I agree that this functionality would be useful. There is an issue asking for that already. The challenge is finding the time to implement that.
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-4241
Michael.

Michael,
I recently made a presentation on learner management using the Progress Bar Block at a Moodle conference in Japan. I was pleased to discover that the block is already being used by numerous teachers over here. There has been a strong trend in Japan recently to maintain engagement and motivation through direct contact between learner and teacher. Several fellow users of the Progress Bar block mentioned that they use the teacher overview to identify students to target for personal intervention (usually an email or text message). It would be a tremendous service to people who use the block in this way if there was a way to send a message to students directly from the teacher overview area. It would be even better if there were check boxes for each student and a way to send group messages concerning late of failed assignments.

Hi, Jason.
Sorry that change doesn't suit you. It was a product of CONTRIB-4727 and I think it is better that the progress bar should turn red when a student makes an attempt but does not pass, regardless of whether this is in the past or future. This makes even more sense in non-time-based courses. I haven't added a setting to control that yet, but you seem like a handy fellow; perhaps you could create such a setting and share it.
Michael.

I dislike the fact that items attempted but not passed BEFORE they are due turn red. I used the progress bar last year it it did not do this. Is there a way to turn this off, or have a third color for attempted, not passed, not due items?

Also added a tracker for this, just hoping for votes
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-5026

The one extra colour (yellow) is not ment for students but for teachers. Teachers will see in the overview of students which assignments need grading. That is a great improvement, Moodle does not offer this option for a whole course (teachers now have to check all assignments individually)
Besides, everyone knows the colourcobination red-yellow-green and what it stands for. Green = OK, yellow = need attention, RED= not OK.
I really have this request from many, many teachers.

I agree with Michael. Keep it simple. More colours are not an improvement. Why stop at 'not yet marked'? Next we'll be having requests for a colour for grade above a certain level, then a colour for a failing grade, then a colour for something else that properly belongs in the gradebook. Keep gradebook stuff in the Gradebook -- that's where students need to look. Just my 2c.

Hi Michael
Correct ! I've just voted for this improvement

Hi, Richard.
A few people have asked have asked for more colours in the Progress Bar, but I've been holding out against that, with the main reason being to keep the display simple and intuitive.