Course dedication

Hi this updated version doen't give any access to the course dedication configuration thus losing all interest.
Where did you get the picture of that screen called course dedication configuration with dates, list of participants?
Besides records participant by participant doesn't have any time frame so is pretty unuseful too.
I just wonder why take the time to create an upgrade which entirely destroys the goal of a plugin...

Hello to everyone,
I am a Moodle administrator and I have encountered the following problem these days... After the last update of the 'Course dedication' plugin 2023112000.
When I try to download an Excel with the connections of a specific participant (View session duration report), it shows me the connections of the authenticated user instead of the consulted user.
Can you help me please? I have not touched any of the code since the last update 2023112000.
Thank you very much for your help.

Hi,
I have installed the plug in and set the cron job but I still have the error "Time spent calculation task has not run yet", how can i fix the problem?
Thank you

Ao instalar o plugin, ocorre o seguinte erro : Instalar plugin de arquivo ZIP
Validando block_dedication ... Erro
[Erro] Versão do Moodle requerida [2022041904]
Instalação abortada devido a falha de validação
Alguém poderia me ajudar, a versão do Moodle que estou usando é 4.0.2

Hello, this is a great plugin, thank you but I'm having a lot of problems with it, everytime i update the plugin all the data disappear and sometimes it just disappears even if i don't update it, am I doing anything wrong? can someone help me please

@Javier - thanks for the feedback - I find it frustrating too - especially when I can't the time to do all the work I would like to do in the plugins we support - I've just posted a long overdue post about the new version and the compromises we had to make to get this work done in the forums here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=452749 - I'm not in a position to help you try and install an older version in your site - however keep in mind that the API changes, the old version did not support Moodle 4.0 (only 3.11 and lower) and it may contain other bugs preventing it from installing in your newer 4.x site.
We definitely have plans to continue further improvements to this plugin - I have a long list of things I'd like to see achieved (see the github issues tracker for more info.) - however feature development/improvements are usually funded by our clients or by other developers sending us pull requests.

@Dan Marsden
Hi Dan, first of all, thank you very much for your clear and quick response.
It is a real shame that this plugin does not have the necessary support to continue its development. I have been using it for years and it has always worked perfectly.
The truth is that I never imagined that an update would mean a regression in its functionalities.
Unfortunately I do not have the necessary knowledge to be able to develop the plugin and leave it at the same level as version 3.10.
Is there a possibility to install an older version of the plugin in Moodle 4.0? I suppose this will not be possible, but right now if the plugin does not perform at least the same actions as in its previous versions it is almost useless or at least difficult to use.
It is true that I have not stopped to look at all the changes to the plugin before proceeding to update my Moodle, but when I saw the screenshots that appeared the same as in version 3.10 of the plugin on this same website I thought that the plugin would continue functioning the same as always, with the same options and in the same way as always.
Does anyone know if there is a good alternative that fulfills the functions that this plugin did before?
I hope that the programming community can take up this project and continue its development.
All the best.

@Javier, yes the design of the plugin has changed and unfortunately we didn't have enough funding to retain all the features of the previous version. Please see the readme file in github for details and also the open tracker issues for future work we would like to do. If you have internal development capabilities pull requests are always welcome otherwise feel free to reach out privately if you are in a position to fund further improvements to the new version. Thanks.

Hello, I have been using this plugin for several years and everything has worked perfectly.
Today I updated my Moodle from version 3.10 to version 4.0 and I see that the plugin does not look the same as in previous versions.
Now only the session start and session duration appear in the session duration report, but not the student's connection IP.
To see the IP information you now have to enter the total report of all entries, but it is not represented in the classic way that this module did in previous versions, but rather in the form of Moodle reports.
On the other hand, when downloading the report in Excel, the entire session record does not appear. I have realized that when applying filters they do not work correctly, since when checking the option to filter only sessions with a login, many sessions that do have a login disappear from the list, that is, there are 10 sessions in the list with login date and time but the filter does not detect them correctly and removes them from the list.
I don't know what could be happening, but I would like to know what I can check to know that the plugin is configured correctly.
This is another thing that I have discovered that has changed, now the plugin configuration parameters only allow you to configure 3 elements: ignore session limit, session limit and history retention time.
Has this plugin changed so much in Moodle version 4.0?
Thank you

@Sydney - the data displayed by the block is now generated using a cron task. Please ensure you have your scheduled task process running correctly and it should generate the data you need.

Hello!
I have installed the plugin and now I see the block say:
Dedication
Time spent calculation task has not run yet.
What should I be doing now in order to have this task run and generate the report?

@Ali - keep in mind that the site-admin usually creates custom reports and then makes them available to users / teachers as required. If you would like to fund the work to get MDL-76392 fixed in core feel free to reach out privately.

Thanks Dan, one comment on teacher asking admins to create custom reports - For us, this would be an extremely heavy load on our Moodle admins with our teachers asking for such reports within many (100's) course areas. Would be ideal for them to filter like they did previously. Cheers.

@ali - I just remembered why that was missing - see: https://github.com/catalyst/moodle-block_dedication/issues/61, we need https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-76392 fixed in Moodle before we can add this back.

@Ali - there is a session start filter on the user report but not on the main listing - probably not too difficult to add back in place at some point - can you please create a tracker issue in the github issues tracker for this (pull requests are always welcome!)
@Shahab - see item 2 in the readme: https://github.com/catalyst/moodle-block_dedication#moodle-4x-updates - make sure your cron is running regularly to generate the data needed.