Moodle availability plugin which lets users restrict resources, activities and sections based on recompletion of the selected course.
Requirements
This plugin requires Moodle 4.1+.
This plugin requires the plugin Course recompletion local_recompletion.
Motivation for this plugin
The plugin Course recompletion local_recompletion allows clearing all course and activity completion for a user based on the duration set notifying the student they need to return to the course and recomplete it.
The problem is that, once the completion is removed, it is no longer possible to distinguish between users who have never completed the course and users who have completed the course but their completion has been removed.
This plugin allows you to:
- show or hide elements only for users who have never completed the course
- show or hide elements only for users who have completed the course and their completion has been removed.
Installation
Install the plugin like any other plugin to folder moodle/availability/condition/recompletion.
The folder structure should therefore be:
| moodle
|-- availability
|-- condition
|-- recompletion
|-- classes
|-- lang
|-- tests
|-- yui
...
After installing the plugin, it is ready to use without the need for any configuration.
See http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_plugins for details on installing Moodle plugins
List of selectable courses
A course X is present in the dropdown menu in 'Settings / Restrict access' if:
- recompletion has been enabled for course X
- there is at least one user of course X whose completion has been removed using the plugin Course recompletion
Dependencies
The plugin local_recompletion records all the data in tables whose names start with local_recompletion_.
This plugin only reads the data present in the local_recompletion_cc and local_recompletion_config tables.
If in the future the table used by the local_recompletion plugin changes then must be modified the two queries present in the methods:
- class condition, function is_available
- class frontend, function get_javascript_init_params
Example
Let's assume we have created a course A that generates a certificate/badge valid for 2 years and we decide to automatically cancel the course completion after 2 years using the Course recompletion plugin.
The cancellation of course A allows us to have an updated report of the students who still have that course valid.
After the cancellation of the course, we might want to:
- prevent the repetition of
course A and/or
- show different activities within
course A and/or
- provide a
course B with update activities reserved only for students who had completed course A.
By enabling the Archive completion data flag in the Course recompletion plugin for course A, the data on canceled completions is archived in a separate table. However, it is not possible to interact with this data from the Moodle interface and, in particular, it is not possible to activate completion conditions.
This plugin helps us by allowing us to distinguish between users who have never completed the course and those who have completed the course at least once but whose completion has expired, based on the archived recompletion data.
It is therefore possible to set activities/resources/sections of the course with visibility conditioned by the canceled completion of the course.
For example, if the student has never completed course A or has completed it but it has not expired:
- they should be able to see the contents of
course A;
- the contents of the update
course B are hidden;
- an informative text area could be inserted in
course B indicating to the student the need to refer to course A.
Or, if the student has completed course A but the completion has expired:
- they should be able to see the contents of
course B;
- some activities/resources of
course A (e.g., final quiz, certificate) should be hidden;
- an informative text area could be inserted in
course A indicating to the student the link to enroll in the update course B.
All the configuration hypothesized here for courses A and B could be thought of in a single course, adding the sections of course B directly into course A and showing the contents of the base course and the update course based on the described conditions.
The choice of whether to create two separate courses or a single course could be made, for example, based on:
- educational issues (e.g., different teachers);
- not overloading a course if there is a lot of content;
- if we want different reporting between those who have taken the base course and those who have taken the update;
- if we want to issue different badges depending on the type of course completed.
