Stamp collection module

The module allows a teacher to give "stamps" (i.e. picture with a comment) to students so they "collect" these stamps. The activity can be used in many ways, such as motivative bonus marks, absence marks, certification records etc. Teachers can enable this module to show stamps to all students, just show stamps to the individual student to whom it was awarded or to hide them completely.

The module was created and is currently maintained by David Mudrak.

Installation

Supported versions

• CVS HEAD should work with 1.8 at the moment
• 1.7 is not planned to be supported nor tested. Maybe it works, maybe not. It was reported that the version for 1.6 worked in Moodle 1.7
• CVS MOODLE_16_STABLE should work with 1.6

How to get

• The latest version built from HEAD - ZIP archive
• The latest version built from MOODLE_16_STABLE - ZIP archive
• The source codes live in CVS contrib/plugins/mod/stampcoll

Feature ideas and requests

Stamps given by students

In current versions, only teachers are allowed to give stamps. There is a plan to implement capability to do this and this capability could be assigned to students as well. Then students can give stamps to each other, or to teachers, or both.

Stamps pools (banks?)

There might be settings of a maximum number of stamps given in one collection (so called collection pool), given by a user (personal pool) and given to a user. All these limits can be combined (logical AND). Then there might be statistics like percentual/total number given from the collection/personal pool, the number of available (unassigned, free) stamps in pools etc.

Grade based on the number of stamps collected

When the feature of maximum number of stamps that can be collected within particular collection is implemented, it is possible to compute the grade based on the number of stamps collected.

Ranking

Similar to overall feedback in the Quiz module, provide a possibility to map a number of collected stamp to a rank (letter or word "grade"). E.g. no stamps collected => Novice, 1 stamp collected => Beginner, 2 stamps collected => Advanced user, 3 stamps collected => Expert.

Forum patch

The patch adding a possibility to tie a stamp collection with a Forum module. Display similar selection box as for forum grading and allow adding stamp for a forum post.

Ajax support

Give stamps by drag and drop from the pool (bank) to a user.

Site level settings

The list of URLs to default stamp images (e.g. to some files at frontpage files section etc.)

Exports

• text, CVS and Excel support

Group mode stamp awarding

A handy way to organize group competitions. Teachers should be able to award stamps for contributions (typically, forum posts and chat participation but other ideas are welcome too). Such stamps would be attributed not to the person who contributed but to his/her team and be accumulated by teams for later evaluation.

Planned capabilities

Please discuss, as this might be very important part of the module setting.

• collect stamps - a user can be given a stamp
• give stamps to others - a user can give a stamp from her own pool (and the collection pool) to the other user
• give stamps to self - a user can give a stamp from her own pool (and the collection pool) to herself
• view own stamps - a user can view stamps given to her
• view others' stamps - a user can view stamps given to other users (user should be always allowed to view stamps given by herself)
• dtto with delete and update