Good Habits Activity Module (2.2.1) for Moodle

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.

Overview of features

• Habit tracking by day, custom range of days or by week.


• Every calendar entry allows for rating by both effort and outcome.


• Granular access control.


• Uses the Privacy API to allow for control over user data.


• Create breaks for stretches of time in which you do not want to track habits.


• Keyboard shortcuts (number keys to set values, enter key to save).


• Can track activity completion based on: user entries / days or weeks complete / number of habits tracked.


• A simple view gives space for posing questions related to a particular entry.


• Can be set up to allow for admin review of entries, or for peer review.


• Student users have control over their own review preferences.


• 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.

2.2.1 Notes

• Improve review


• Allow review of historical data belonging to other users

2.1.2 Notes

• Add historical data feature

2.1.1 Notes

• Fix breaks bug


• Introduction of UI feature to expand a habit and review: first entry and averages.

2.0.3 Notes

• Fix review bug

2.0.2 Notes

• Hide entries in breaks


• Allow sorting of habits


• Support better translations

2.0.1 Notes

• Fix localisation of date strings


• Fix backwards compatibility with previous versions and document Moodle/Totara compatibility.

2.0 Notes

• Render using mustache templates - allows for easier UI changes.


• Add "simple view". This progresses through different questions relating to effort and outcome.


• Add "mobile view" (embedded page layout) and improve general responsiveness.


• Improve UI for calendar view to access simple view and 'skip' days/weeks.


• Add completion options / change implementation to use custom completion class.


• Add fix for server time changes.


• Fix issues with admin review.


• Add peer review.


• Add mod-level settings for admin/peer review and further user-level preferences.


• Change no-habits message to link to create new habit

1.2.2 Notes

• Minor code style updates.

1.2.1 Notes

• Add review feature. If enabled, allows admin to review the habit calendars of others on the course.


• Improved responsiveness of the design so this activity will work on phones, tablets and smaller screens.


• Changed how keyboard shortcuts work. The first number key sets effort, the second sets outcome and the enter key saves the entry.


• Effort/outcome can now be set by clicking on the corresponding square in the grid.


• Clicking/tapping the current entry circle will now save the entry (if you have selected new values) or cancel (if you have not).

1.1.2 Notes

• Minor maintenance updates (add thirdpartylibs.xml, change lang strings to sentence case).

1.1 Notes

• Add support for Backup/Restore.


• Add support for Completion Tracking.


• Fix issues with Privacy API implementation.


• Improve code documentation and style to fit guidelines.

Version compatibility

| Plugin Area | Compatible Totara Versions | Compatible Moodle Versions |
|-----------------|----------------------------|------------------------------|
| Review entries | None | 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 |
| Everything else | 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 | 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 | |

License

2025 Joe Cape joe.sc.cape@gmail.com

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.

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WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
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