Moodle plugins directory: Progress Bar

If you go through the upgrade process, it should clear the cache (which was where the problem lay). Just to be sure, you can manually clear caches at Site admin > Development > Purge caches.

How about this option on the progress bar. "Show Late Submission". In the settings for the bar if you click this a small red "L" would appear in the bottom left of the green box when a student submits the work past the due date set for the assignment. It you don't want your progress bar to indicate late then uncheck this box and it would behave just the way it currently does.
I'm sure many users would like progress bars to indicate work that has been submitted but was submitted late. It may encourage some of my students who "wait till a red cross appears then start work" to change the way they operate.

Hi, Rob.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I think that indicating when something is late would duplicate the function of the NOW indicator and probably be less clear. I also think it would be hard to translate, if it relies on a single letter.

There is not a universal concept of dates in Moodle. The closest we have at the moment is the "expected by" setting in activity completion. It's therefore hard to judge, generally, when something is late.

Rob,

I've mentioned the same thing. My parents get confused without a late indication. They contact me saying that the don't understand why something isn't in the school gradebook, because the progress bar shows green. I am constantly explaining that the bar doesn't show whether something was turned in on time, rather just whether or not it was done. It is a feature I constantly get requests for from parents and other teachers.

Fantastic. It works. Thank you very much for fast and effective support Michael.

Best wishes
Flemming

Hi,
I am using version 2016031101.
In my case progress bar is same for all users. When a student performs an activity, immediately progress bars of all students are affected (although they did not perform that activity) which results into same progress bar for all.
Please advise.

Hi, Nazmus.

Yes, that is consistent with the bug that others have experienced. You should try the test version in the issue...

https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-6072

Michael.

Hi Michael,
Thanks for your response. It worked like a chram. Thanks again.

This looks like a great plugin which would be handy for us at our College. I do have a couple of questions though:

- Can this be enabled only for a particular course and not Moodle-wide, for testing purposes?
- What would the progress bar look like if a student had up to 30-40 assessments that needed to be tracked?
- What other statuses are available apart from the Completed with a pass mark, completed with a fail mark and upcoming?

Thank you, look forward to hearing from you.

Mile

Hi. Excuse my english. When I put a file pdf to be monitored, immediately it's show like completed to everybody. Why?

Mile: Some answers for you.
- The plugin is usually used within courses. It can be added to the Dashboard page, but this is not essential.
- For 30-40 items, the Progress Bar can be a bit squashed. You can have multiple blocks and split up your course content. I'm working on a new version that includes options to wrap or scroll the bar.
- The actions differ for each activity/resource, depending on what is possible with that activity.

Sebastian: There is a bug in recent versions. Grab the version from the following issue...

https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-6072

I hope to release that as the normal version soon.

Hi Michael, thanks for getting back to me.

- Ideally we'd then need to pick and choose what activities we need monitored to eliminate the bar from being squashed.
- I'm currently using Moodle 2.6, do you foresee any issues with installing your current version of the progress bar on my platform?
- Once i install it, can i pick and choose which course it is visible for?

Sorry about the questions, just want to make sure it doesn't automatically go live without configuring it first.

Thanks again, look forward to your response.

Regards,

Mile

Hi, Mile.

The block is designed to work with versions from Moodle 2.0 onwards. When it is installed you will need to add it to courses like other blocks. When you add the block to a course you will need to select which activities are included in the bar.

I recommend you set up a test server to try things out.

Thanks Michael! Great job!

Sorry if already answered but re the Overview of Students, is it feasible to be able to display this to all students in a course as a leader board type of thing? or is it just part of the design to have this side as teacher only. I'm probably missing something vital here - it is late on friday and i need to go home