Progress tracking

Note: This page outlines ideas for the User Competency Tracking Module. It's a specification under construction! If you have any comments or suggestions, please add them to the page comments.

Currently in Moodle 1.9 we have a way of saying "these courses and these activities are intended to achieve these outcomes" and teachers can grade students against those outcomes. eg You could grade "Understands basic evacuation procedures" on a scale like "No understanding, Partial understanding, Total understanding".

What we need now is a way to

• Relate a list of desired outcomes to each USER, for the site, like a "learning plan" for that user.
• For each outcome, specify a desired competency (eg Total understanding) for that competency to be "achieved".
• Find a good way to connect Grades in gradebooks to these competencies
  • We'll have to cope with results that might not contribute to final grading, such as initial evaluations.
  • We'll have to cope with final grading from more than one course, and aggregate them
• In the end we'll have to generate nice reports to admins and users so that they can see what a particular user can do and what they still have to learn or prove.
• Finally, for extra credit, it would be nice to have a "suggest courses" features which would suggest upcoming courses that can help a user gain missing competencies.

Related data

• Outcomes are defined like this: Outcomes tables
• Conditional activities includes course completion Completion tables

See also

• GSOC/2008
• User Competency Tracking Module application abstract