Checklist

Hi Casper,
I'm afraid I can't really give you a clear answer to that off the top of my head, as I'm not aware of that being a common problem for people using the checklist (as far as I'm aware, it generally just works as expected).
I suggest you make sure that the checklist is set to update as 'student only' and that you are logged in as a student. Make sure also that you are using checklist items you have manually created, not ones imported from the list of activities in the course.

Hi - very new to moodle and i'm trying Checklist on my local moodle before its implemented on our other prod moodle. I added the checklist but regardless of role the checkboxes aren't active and I can't click any of them. Have I missed a setting somewhere?

Hi Dirk,
The student items are designed to be a form of private notes for each student (so they can keep track of any extra things they need to do in order to complete the main item).
It would not be impossible to change this, but would require changes to the code (an extra setting, which would need adding to the instance form, the database and the backup & restore; a check against the setting to output the information onto the teacher view; a warning message for students, that their custom items can be seen by their teacher).
I'd be happy to accept a well-written code patch that implemented those features (along with automated tests to confirm everything works as expected).
Alternatively, it would have to go on the long list of changes that I might make someday, when I have a spare evening to do so.

Hello. A teacher is asking students to enter their own items. The teacher would like to see the individual items that students are adding to their checklist. Is this possible? Thank you.

The docs don't seem to state anywhere that the version number should be different between versions of the plugin, only that the version number should be changed to trigger an upgrade (not needed in this case) and that, when changing numbers, it should always increase across supported branches.
Nevertheless, as already stated, I will make sure that I increase the version number on the next release (which will happen in the next week or so, with the release of 3.10), to avoid such edge cases in the future.

Hi Davo, I work with Andrew, and it's not an option for us to install the plugin directly. We build our server packages in an automated CI environment. It's crucial for us, and probably for others, that those version numbers be unique. This is also best practice per https://docs.moodle.org/dev/version.php. Thanks, Charles.

Hi Andrew - there isn't any practical difference between the versions. The change was only to make travis-ci happy. If you're using an unsupported method to install the plugin, and it isn't working, then I'd advise you to use one of the standard methods to install it directly. I'll try to remember to bump the version number when I'm next doing a release (which is likely to be around the time that 3.10 comes out).

Hi Davo, I just wanted to let you know that because the last two releases of your plugin (the ones for 3.4+ and 3.9) have the same version number (2020012900), those using your plugin via Composer cannot get the correct version. For example, we are still on 3.7, and when I ask Composer for '2020012900' it gives me the 3.9 version, which we can't use.

Thanks Davo, I'll give that a go. Or give the job to someone who can be trusted

Martin,
Yes - in your theme, override the styling for: .checklist_progress_inner and .checklist_progress_anim
You'll need to change the background-image to point at a different image, for completeness you should also change background-color (although that will only show if the image loads slowly).
Davo

Hi Davo
Is it possible to change the colour of the progress bar from green?
Cheers
Martin

Hey Davo, thank you for your fast reply. As we are focussing more and more on individual learning paths a plugin that helps structuring the progress for teachers and learners AND visualizes the daily tasks would be great. As I said the built in tools (learning plans and completion) do not match our criterias right now. I totally understand that this work is worth paying for. I'll discuss this with my colleagues and perhaps get in touch with you. Cheers

Tobias,
If you don't want students to override the automatically checked-off items, then select "automatic, cannot override" instead of "automatic, can override".
In Moodle, there is no such thing as a generic "due date" for activities - supporting automatic importing of dates would have to be written specifically for each different activity type.
Replying to comments might be possible to implement, but it would probably be quite a bit of work to do so (I've not looked at the code involved for a long time - possibly it might be worth rewriting it using the Moodle comments system, that didn't exist when I first wrote my code).
Thanks for the suggestions - there do seem to be some good ideas in there. Unfortunately, I spend all of my working days writing Moodle code, so it is not something I do in my free time any more (other than urgent bug fixes and checking my plugins work with new Moodle releases). I'm happy to accept simple, well written patches from other developers. I'm also happy to pass on contact details for my employers, Synergy Learning, if you have funding available to pay for the work to be done during my working hours.

Hey Davo,
your plugin is a great of help when it comes to individual learning. It's much better than the internal activity completion plugin.
I discovered that student can check activities as complete even if teachers have set access restrictions and/or a completion rule in the activity. Would be great if those items can not be marked as complete by the student without meeting the conditions/restrictions first. Furthermore the due dates set in the course activity should automatically appear in the plugin.
It would also be of great help if students could reply to teacher comments for a certain item. Like a discussion option for each item.
I know that is much to ask but if you find any of the suggestions useful and also the time to implement them I would be greatful.
Cheers
Tobias

The error says that there is no lang/en/checklist.php file. That is clearly not the case, as it is working for everyone else. I think you should check the file permissions on your server, as it sounds like it can't see all the files it should.