Stash

Hi Joseph,
To me understanding it already is possible to "tie Stash into Moodle's built-in conditionals". Have you had a look at https://moodle.org/plugins/availability_stash? Although, as Adrian mentioned, swapping items for other ones will be released soon, you can already limit the access to activities/sections based on student's collected items.

Hello Joseph,
About being able to "cash in" your stash for "rewards", I have been working on this feature. It's currently being reviewed by Fred. It should be released very soon.
Thank you for your feedback. Your comments help keep us motivated to work on this plugin in our spare time.

+1Stuart Jones
Great idea to hide a stash in a quiz or assignment feedback--love it! Wanted to bump up Stuart's feature request for a way to "cash in" your stash for "rewards", or a cool integration would be to tie Stash into Moodle's built in conditionals--e.g. trade in 5 gold coins to unlock an Activity or Bonus Treasure section!
This plugin has a TON of potential once gamification of courses takes off as instructors catch up to pedagogical innovations....
Thank you Frederic and Adrian for this great plugin!

Hi Joseph,
Thanks for sharing your ideas. We have thought of setting a strict limit on the quantity of an item for the whole course, it's a good idea. We could also add more options to conditionally display the item. The trick is to find the right balance between have too many options, and not enough.
You can already reward for a high achievement for a quiz. Set a quiz feedback for a result higher than 90% and add the shortcode there.
Feel free to report your suggestions at https://github.com/FMCorz/moodle-block_stash/issues/
Fred

Great plugin for gamification! Idea for future enhancement: for each Stash items availability, it would be nice to have besides the option of time (e.g. appears only every 3 days) to have the option to limit the number of items for the course (e.g. there are only 7 Golden Unicorns hidden in the course!)--then it could be a race or scavenger hunt to find the limited number of items to help encourage course participation, reward high achievement (e.g. unlock Stash item once quiz score is above 90%), etc.

This is great, is there a way to manually give/take items from students? In a blended k-12 environment this could be the basis of a classroom management system with health points (punishment) and gold (positive reinforcement).

Do you know yet when you guys will be able to work on this plugin again?

That's it. Thanks a lot!

Hi Frederic,
Sure, I would be glad to. Just because I have never worked with github before, please confirm that this https://github.com/FMCorz/moodle-block_stash/issues is the place where I should raise a New issue (since nothing similar seems to be there).
Best
anna

Hi Anna,
Could you please raise an issue for that in the github repo if there isn't one already?
Cheers!
Fred

Hello Adrian and Frederic,
What a cool tool is this! Just tested and absolutely loved it. Thank you!
In Moodle 3.2 with Boost theme, while adding a location, the "Supplies" option displays twice. Unfortunately I can't share a screenshot here... :{

Hello Guido Roessling,
Thank you for trying out our plugin. We currently only have a limited report setup for the stash which shows which items have been collected by each student. I can understand that it could be difficult to make your way around this report with so many students. I think that your suggestions are useful. When we expand the reports, hopefully we can incorporate these ideas.

Hello Andrew Barrett,
We're glad to hear that our plugin is of some use. Unfortunately stashes are currently restricted to a single course.

Hi Frédéric,
I really like the plugin! One nice addition would be if there could be statistical overview for the teacher (probably not very difficult to do?), similar to what is shown in "assign" elements.
For example - number of participants, number of stashes available (in total), average number of stashes, and perhaps (if the total is not too large) a breakdown of the number of users with "X" stashes. Alternatively, perhaps a tabulated view of who has which stash, with one user per row and one column for each stash, and a simply checkmark (or filled green vs. grey) box.
That would really be great - my course currently has 1250+ students, and getting an impression of their "stash progress" is hard to achieve, as I currently seem to be limited to "sorting by name"...
Best regards,
Guido

Hi Adrian and Frederic,
Thanks for such a useful plugin. Quick question, is there any way for this to work site wide across multiple courses?
Thanks
Andrew