Checklist module

My customer tells me often that the teachers in the moodle courses struggle with tracking the progress of the students and the students do not seem to know what is expected of them, what they have left to complete.

Mike, my customer observed a class of students as they were working in their moodle course.  This was a class period during the school day with the teacher in the room.  According to Mike, many of the students could not tell where they left off from last week.  I imagine the only time the students are accessing their courses is in the classroom during this period, maybe a couple times a week.  Mike said "anything we can do to help the students realize where they are in the course would be useful".

Today, while working in my remote-learner on-line moodle transition course, I noticed a progress bar in a block.

 





I asked the course facilitator what type of block that is and she told me a checklist block.  I sprang into action, reading the moodle docs checklist module page.

Installing the checklist module.

I downloaded the module from the moodle plugins directory and unzipped it.  I read the readme.txt file in the root of the plugin.  There are 3 specific folders that need to be copied into specific places in the moodle core code directory.

• blocks
• mod
• grades/export

I copied the content of each folder into the corresponding

After returning to my moodle page, I clicked the refresh button and was greeted with the familiar plugins checklist view.

Notice the Checklist appears 3 times in the Plugin name column, once for each folder .

1. /mod/checklist
2. /blocks/checklist
3. /grade/export/checklist

 After proceeding, you should see this.

 

Now, when I go to a course and choose Activity, I see the checklist option.  I inserted a checklist and called it course completion checklist.  I added a few tasksand saved it.

I also activated the new block, by turning on editing and choosing the checklist block.  As the teacher, this is what the block looks like, showing each enrolled students progress bar.

I logged in as student james and completed two of the tasks, the other 3 students have not completed any tasks in their checklist.

If I am logged in as student james, these are my views

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Click on the course completion checklist and get this view.

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