SCORM reporting improvements

SCORM reporting improvements
Project state	Completed
Tracker issue	MDL-27256
Discussion	SCORM reporting improvements
Assignee	Ankit Agarwal

Moodle 2.2

GSOC '11

Introduction

This is a GSOC 2011 Project.The objective is improving the reporting of quiz elements for SCORM. Whenever a quiz style SCORM object is uploaded to Moodle , it passes back certain information to Moodle. Presently there is no way of reporting details of this push. This project is an attempt to counter the same.

Project Details

Description

The reporting in SCORM for quiz style questions is very limited. Some SCORM objects don't even pass the information back to Moodle, but whenever they do in the standard way, we should provide a way to view these responses in a clearer manner. Teachers should be able to see clear reports stating not only the final result of the quiz, but also the details about every data element that SCO pushes back to Moodle. This an integral and important part that has been missing from the reporting. Thus objective of this project is basically to provide a standard GUI and export capabilities for the above situation. In this project we will try to develop an plug-gable model for SCORM reporting, something similar to what quiz module presently support. This will not only improve present SCORM reporting capabilities of MOODLE but also allow users to easily write custom reporting plugins of there which can be simply uploaded and used.

Module Architecture

The module will consist of following sub-modules:-

• Core Plugin Container
• Basic Reporting Plugin
• Interaction Reporting Plugin

(See below for details.)

Plugin Structure

Each plugin is allowed to have following files and folders:

Compulsory

• Report.php
• lang/xx/scormreport_pluginname.php

Optional

• Version.php
• db/install.php
• db/install.xml
• db/upgrade.php
• db/access.php

Report.php must extend the default reporting class "scorm_default_report" and the extended class must implement the method "display($scorm, $cm, $course, $download)", which should handle the core reporting feature. Some conventions that must be followed:-

• Name of the extended class should be scorm_pluginname_report
• scorm_pluginname_report must implement the function

  function display($scorm, $cm, $course, $download) {}

• Each plugin must define the string "pluginname" in the lang files.

Core Plugin Container

This Sub-Module will act as the core of SCORM reporting providing a basic platform on which other custom reporting plugin can be built. It is basically like a board on which other plugins can be "plugged" to start working.

Basic Reporting Plugin

This plugin will basically a replication of the current moodle reporting converted to a plugin structure with few basic improvement.This is one of the very basic plugin and is to be included in the core along with the container.

Interaction Reporting Plugin

The interaction reporting plugin is designed to handle the display of some basic scorm data elements representing the student's response to questions and whether the response was correct or not. Something like the "responses" report for Quiz at present.

Milestones

Milestone	Status
Background Study	Completed
Case Study	Completed
Recreate the case and study.	Completed
Separate User Reporting to a Generic file.	Completed
Design the layout of the Plugin Container	Completed
Code the Plugin Container	Completed
Plan the layout for default plugins	Completed
Code the Default plugins	Completed
Design the layout Additional plugin	Completed
Code the plugins	Completed
Test the plugins	Completed
Integrate all plugins	Completed
Test Everything	Completed
Clean and optimize all codes.	Completed
Test Everything	Completed
Document Everything	Completed Scorm Reports

Screens

• Basic Reporting

• Interaction Reporting

Relevant Links

For more information please visit the following links:

• Introduction To SCORM-Rustic Software
• Introduction To SCORM- ADL Video Series
• SCORM 1.2 Documentaion
• ADL Initiative - Youtube Channel
• SCORM FAQ
• GSoC 2011 - Moodle

Tracker

• Improve SCORM quiz reporting

Discussions

• Making sense of SCORM
• Scorm reports - Retrieving feedback
• New version of the Detailed responses report plugin for Moodle 1.6 beta
• SCORM reporting improvements

The Road ahead

I have plans to include two more SCORM report plugins in future:-

• Graph Based Reports (available in Moodle 2.3)
• Trends Analysis Reports

Al-tough I am not sure if and when these will land in core, but I do hope it can be in time for MOODLE 2.3