Progress Bar
Maintained by
Michael de Raadt
A time management tool for you and your students
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I am using version 2016031101.
In my case progress bar is same for all users. When a student performs an activity, immediately progress bars of all students are affected (although they did not perform that activity) which results into same progress bar for all.
Please advise.
Best wishes
Flemming
I've mentioned the same thing. My parents get confused without a late indication. They contact me saying that the don't understand why something isn't in the school gradebook, because the progress bar shows green. I am constantly explaining that the bar doesn't show whether something was turned in on time, rather just whether or not it was done. It is a feature I constantly get requests for from parents and other teachers.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I think that indicating when something is late would duplicate the function of the NOW indicator and probably be less clear. I also think it would be hard to translate, if it relies on a single letter.
There is not a universal concept of dates in Moodle. The closest we have at the moment is the "expected by" setting in activity completion. It's therefore hard to judge, generally, when something is late.
I'm sure many users would like progress bars to indicate work that has been submitted but was submitted late. It may encourage some of my students who "wait till a red cross appears then start work" to change the way they operate.
Thanks for reporting that. I had another person describe the same thing and I've fixed it in a new version that is currently up for testing in...
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-6072
I have a problem after updating the Progress Bar to 2016031101 on Moodle 3.02.
Student automatically get credit for reading all document, even those who has not logged in yet.
Any suggestions?
Kind regards
Flemming Bornemann
Thanks for your comments and suggestions.
In relation to showing large courses on the Progress Bar, I'd appreciate testing on my recent development, which can be seen in the following issue.
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-6072
In terms of improving the settings and efficiency, my intention in future is to rely more on activity completion.
I've the same requests of Valentine REIN
maybe (I'd to check this) some of my high school students for their final work could have the time to help you to make these improvements
let me know if this is a possible way to improve your very useful plugin
thanks in advance and best regards
mauri
The plugin settings lists all activities of the course which are many.
For each of them you have to list "Yes", choose date and time (you have to change it everytime because it's by default the current date/time) and state (for SCORM it's not "finished" by default, so you need to change it for every package too).
I've no idea right now how to improve that, but maybe select the sections first, then the activities (with checkboxes maybe, so that you can either select all activities or only a part) and the possibility to put the same date...
I think replacing the "yes/no" and state drop-down list with checkboxes would be already saving time.
Well this all to tell you that this plugin responds to needs and should be improved
Hope my comments will help and that my English's not too ugly ^^
Best regards
I haven't read all comments because there are too many ^^
We just tested the progress bar plugin because our (adult) students have many SCORM packages to view at home during their training session at specific dates (it's a hybrid training session). This tool seemed to be just what we were looking for to help them see what remains to be done before each time they come back. BUT : the SCORM packages are too many and the progress bar stays on one line...
Like Nathan above, I tried adding a block for each teacher : that means 25 blocks on home page...
It would be nice to have another display like a ressource or a link to a full page and the possibility to make something like this (sorry can't upload an image file) :
SOCIOLOGY
[progress bar for 25 activities]
ENGLISH
[progress bar for 15 activities]
and so on...
For Assignment and Workshop activities, there is an option to show a fourth colour to indicate an assignment has been submitted.
It's new and I'd appreciate some feedback on this issue...
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-5282
Michael
Here is the problem.
"Hi Guys,
I have been working with the Year 8 team and the students in the Year 8 LG groups to catch up on their tasks before the end of term as they are going on camp the beginning of next term.
It has come to my attention from various students in different forms that there are tasks that students have submitted to you and they are waiting for a green tick.
If you are struggling to mark all the tasks, please just set the Moodle course for submitted, not marked and then you can get to it over the holidays.
As leaders we are struggling as we go into the students’ progress bars and they have submitted the tasks but they are not marked.
If you have issues can you please shoot me an email or come and chat.
Thanks for your understanding in trying to keep the students accountable, but also supporting their learning,"
You could program a solution for us. When an assignment on progress bar is set to "Marked" it should go orange when a student has submitted to it; not green and certainly not "red" as is the current situation.
I know it introduces another color but we use progress bars to see if a student is up to date. As soon as a progress bar has "marked" and the teacher is not up to date with their marking it reflects poorly on the student.