Course dedication

Agree with Steve! Great plugin that could be crowd funded!
Resolving groups issue would be nice, as well as being able to track meta-enrollments (e.g. have a cohort of students that are then enrolled in multiple courses to track their progress overall or within a course that has sub-courses associated with it).
Very useful tool to help with tracking student progress and great for coaching conferences and parent teacher conferences for those of us with younger students.

Hi Aday, I've thought for a long time that Moodle should implement a way of users being able to contribute to the cost of maintaining third-party-developed free-to-use plugins if they want to. I personally consider this plugin very useful, and so I'd be happy to make a small contribution (financially or otherwise) if that would help to get this plugin updated for V4.0 and to resolve the groups issue?

This plugin is really good but sadly, due to GDPR issues, we have had to remove it. It is not set to GROUPS so it means people in different groups can see each other's student data. If this can be fixed, it would be a brilliant plugin.

Hello, Can I check if this will be upgraded for Moodle 4.0 when that's released next week? Many thanks.

I would like to ask: Is it possible to activate the block in the category?

Hello, I installed the plugin but somehow I it does not appear in the block section to choose it. Does anybody know what the issue might be?

The only moment that the plugin could affect performance is whenever you open it and the plugin needs to calculate dedication time for each student. So if the block is only enabled for teachers then performance impact should be low by default.
However, if you have a course with many students, for example more of 500 or more, in that courses you could have issues with memory or timeouts, because that are a lot of calculations to do to show the dedication time of all the students.

Hello! I'd like to know if this plugin will slow down the server, and if yes, is there any possibilities to use it without negative impact on the server performance?
My question is because the university where I ask them to install this plugin for the course that I will teach refuse to do it, in reason of the performance of their Moodle platform is... very limited.
Thank you by advance.

Thanks so much Aday for testing this with 3.11, just in time for the start of my courses!

I checked that the block still works with Moodle 3.11+ so I updated the compatibility.
If you need to update fast to new Moodle versions, you should try to setup the plugin manually in your Moodle site. This is an easy process. Just download de zip, upload it from your Moodle administration panel and then run the setup. A lot of people are doing the updates this way.
The plugin didn't need any critical code update since the update to Moodle 3.x, so it would probably work without any changes until the release of Moodle 4.x.

Hey Aday, wondering if you got a chance to test if CD works with latest moodle version as you mentioned?We’re up to Moodle 3.11 now which leaves CD two versions behind. I really want to keep my site secure but also really rely on your wonderful plugin...so right now I’m in a Catch 22 situation. Could you please test it with 3.11? 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks so much.

Thank you Aday for sharing your great work with the Moodle community! The Dedication Block has been very helpful, especially during COVID, to help coach students and parents about looking at putting in the proper time to be successful in a course compared to the course average, and the block counting the number of days since the start of the semester and average minutes per day is also an extremely helpful metric (much like a fitness tracker counting steps!).
I was wondering for future features if you might be able to add in a feature for tracking dedication time for meta-enrollments in a course (e.g. student is registered for a Year 1 Course, which then has meta-enrollments for subcourses in Math, Science, History, Art, etc.) so that teachers and case managers could see how a student is doing overall and as helpful data to help coach students. Oftentimes, students are completely unaware of their study habits, and the course dedication block has been a very helpful, data driven tool to help spot trends and habits to help kids build consistency and improve their progress.
Thanks again Aday for sharing your great work with the open source community!

I will try to check if the plugin still woks with latest moodle versions to upgrade it properly.
@Andres Sch, could you tell me what theme are you using so I can try to debug the css issue?

Hi The Web Side, I already tested and works fine, but the dedication course section is hidden (idk why). When you install the plugin, go to any course and use the google inspector (f12) and search for "Dedication course" and search for "margin-right: -320px" in css and delete it, that way you'll see the block.

Hey Aday Talavera,
Was wondering if you plan on seeing if the plugin will work with Moodle 3.10? My courses start in June and would like to use the latest version for security proposes. Thanks.
If Andy's not available, has anyone tested it on the 3.10 release?
Ta.