Good Habits Activity
Maintained by
Joe Cape
The intention of this plugin is to help track habits over time. Within an e-learning context this may help cultivate behaviours that improve learning outcomes.
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If a teacher or admin has permission to review, they can select a learner and see a "read only" view of the habit calendar.
When course admin sets up an activity, they can choose from these options:
Disabled - No-one can review as admin
Optional [default: Don't allow] - Students control whether to allow admin review access. By default, admin do not have access.
Optional [default: Allow] - As above, students can set whether to allow in their preferences page. By default, admin have access.
Required - Admin can review and students are not able to change this.
- A new view. This progresses through various different questions relating to effort and outcome. I've found that some people have a strong preference for responding to the textual prompts over using the grid - while others have an equally strong preference in the other direction. So now there is a choice! It also seems like a better way into the self-reflective process for new users, as the grid view with no further direction may be overwhelming.
- A help feature guides new users through the process from setting up habits to answering questions. After they complete a single set of questions, there is a general how-to guide.
- Improved the admin review feature and added peer review. Peer review lets those who opt in review other users' habit calendars. This makes for a social dimension to the activity - it is fun to be able to compare calendars. It may also give extra motivation, by way of mutual accountability. There are obvious privacy implications - so I have given control over how this works to students and admin (site and activity).
- Improved responsive design, so it now works on phones held in portrait mode.
I'm doing this as a personal project, as I've seen some benefit from using it myself, and there does not seem to be anything similar in this subjective self-evaluation space.
I know it has been several years! There may be reporting tools out there that do as you suggest. This plugin is focused on self-reflection, so the habits do need to be logged manually.
There could potentially be scope in the future for hooking into core Moodle events to compare with these self-evaluations, but it's not something that I've looked at.
Initially, this will be a User Select option that will give admin read-only access to the learner's habit calendar. If you have other suggestions, I'd be keen to hear your thoughts.
As an admin, you should see a button within the activity with the text "[Admin] Manage activity habits" (if you don't see this, there is a permissions issue). If you add habits via this button, they will be visible to everyone within the activity. I'd like to know whether this fixes it for you. I would also appreciate any advice as to how this might be made clearer.