Moodle AnalyST

Maintained by Technische Universität Darmstadt, Steffen Pegenau
Support tool for medium and large sites, that provides you with - a better search function for courses and users - a fast overview about a course with participants and their roles, activities, enrolment methods - a fast overview about a user with their courses and roles
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Supports Moodle 2.5-3.3 See all versions
Latest release: 10 years ago
Installations: 19
Downloads (last 90 days): 19
Frankenstyle name: report_moodleanalyst
Experimental 
General information
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moodle-analyst is a tool for support and administration tasks for 
moodle (https://moodle.org/), implemented as a report plugin.
NEW: check out the successor, adding capability-support and configurability: Tool Supporter


Features - summary
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- extreme fast and accurate course and user search
- get fast summary of users and courses with all relevant information
- reach frequently used moodle administration functions without any reloads

Did I mention that everything is pretty fast? ;)


Status: beta
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moodle-analyst has proved itself very useful on our productive system
(Apache on Linux with MSSQL backend) with about 25,000 users. We also tested it 
successfully on smaller systems with MySQL backend. 
We would like to hear all about your experiences, bugs you have found and 
all kind of suggestions!

:)

Send your feedback to the successor Tool Supporter


Installation 
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- Put all files into /report/moodleanalyst in your moodle directory 
- open the moodle administration page to install plugin 
- you find the plugin in tht site reports: Administration -> Site administration -> Reports ->
Moodle AnalyST (user needs to be at least 'course creator') 
 
 

Idea

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Moodle makes (for good reasons) only very conservately use of JavaScript. For the reasons see [1], [2] and [3]. In consequence many full page reloads are necessary to perform even simple tasks. For this project we dropped the moodle principles of accessibility to get a high speed support/administration tool, realised under heavy JavaScript usage. Libraries we used: - AngularJS, [4] - Google Charts, [5] at the moment (february 2015) used for the tables, and filters (dashboards) - Slim, [6] "a micro framework for PHP" to realise a simple API to get the needed data as JSON

 

Links

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[1] https://docs.moodle.org/dev/JavaScript_guidelines
[2] https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Unobtrusive_Javascript 
[3] https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Progressive_enhancement
[4] https://angularjs.org/ 
[5] https://developers.google.com/chart/
[6] http://www.slimframework.com/

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