Course dedication

This block allows to see the estimated dedication time to a Moodle course by the participants of the course.

How dedication time is estimated?

Time is estimated based in the concepts of Session and Session duration applied to Moodle's log entries:

• Click: every time that a user access to a page in Moodle a log entry is stored.
• Session: set of two or more consecutive clicks in which the elapsed time between every pair of consecutive clicks does not overcome an established maximum time.
• Session duration: elapsed time between the first and the last click of the session.

Features

This block is intended to be used only by teachers, however the block can be configured to show dedication time to students too.

Teachers can use a tool to analyse dedication time within a course. The tool provides three reporting methods:

• Dedication time of the course: calculates total dedication time, mean dedication time and connections per day for each student, which you can filter by course group if required.
• Dedication of a student: detailed sessions for a student with start date & time, duration and ip.
• Report builder source: The plugin includes a custom report builder source to allow for site-level reporting to be generated.

Credits

• Originally developed by Aday Talavera, CICEI at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University
• Updated to support Moodle 1.9 - Moodle 3.X by Borja Rubio Reyes.
• Support for Moodle 4.0 including the work to support the new repotbuilder api was sponsored by the University of Canterbury.