Progress Bar block

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Features

• The Progress Bar is a time-management tool for students.
• It visually shows what activities/resources a student is supposed to interact with in a course.
• It is colour coded so students can quickly see what they have and have not completed/viewed.
• The teacher selects which pre-existing activities/resources are to be included in the Progress Bar and when they should be completed/viewed.
• Ordering can be done by times/deadlines or by the ordering of activities in the course.

The overview page

• There is an overview page allowing teachers to see the progress of all students in a class, which is helpful for finding students at risk.
• Adding the Progress Bar block to the My home page shows users a combined view of their progress on all courses (where the block is set up).

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Installation

The Progress Bar block is added like other blocks (How to install a block).

Setting up a Progress Bar

Once the progress bar is installed, you can use it in a course as follows.

1. Turn editing on
2. Create your activities/resources as normal
3. Add the Progress Bar block to your page (How to add a block)
4. Move your Progress Bar block into a prominent position (click and drag the block title)
5. Choose to:
   • Monitor all activities (pre-fills configuration page)
   • Select which activities to monitor (start from scratch)
6. Set the activities/resources you want shown in the block to "Yes" and those you don't to "No".
7. Set the date and time when the activity/resource is expected to be completed/viewed by (some activities have deadlines set, if so, that deadline can be used or another can be set in the Progress Bar block configuration).
8. Save changes.

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Hidden items will not appear in the Progress Bar until they are unhidden. This is useful for a scheduled release of activities.

Links

• Block code in Plugins repository
• Bug Tracker Page (Please report bugs here)
• CVS Repository

Available translations

This plugin has been (partly or completely) translated in AMOS to these 24 languages by February 2016:

• Basque (eu)
• Catalan (ca)
• Chinese (Traditional/Big5) (zh_tw)
• Croatian (hr)
• Czech (cs)
• Dansk (da)
• Dutch (nl)
• Finnish (fi)
• French (fr)
• German (de)
• Hebrew (he)
• Japanese (ja)
• Lietuvių (lt)
• Macedonian (mk)
• Mongolian (mn)
• Norwegian (no)
• Polish (pl)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (pt_br)
• Romanian (ro)
• Russian (ru)
• Serbian (Cyrillic) (sr_cr)
• Serbian (Latin) (sr_lt)
• Spanish (International) (es)
• Spanish - Mexico (es_mx)

The documentation (this page that you are reading now) is available in spanish at Bloque de barra de progreso.

Acknowledgements

• Thanks to:
  • Toshimi Hatanaka for contributing a Japanese translation
  • Yvonne Schneider and Joachim Vogelgesang for contributing a German translation
  • Maria João Spilker for contributing a Portuguese-Brazilian translation
  • Pieter Wolters for contributing a Dutch translation
  • Fernando Sánchez for contributing a Spanish translation
  • Fabien Sartoretti for contributing a French translation
  • Adam Levy for contributing queries and strings for Hot Potatoes support
  • Petras Virzintas for contributing queries for Turnitin support
  • Willian Mano for helping with the modern look CSS
  • Matthieu Rolland for contributing queries for the Questionnaire module
  • Johan Reinalda for contributing global config changes for block colours
  • German Valero for Spanish - Mexico translation of the block and this page.