Mod Learning Time Check

Component type: Activity module

Name: Learning Time Check

Versions: to

Old versions: 1.9, 2.2 to 2.6

Distribution: dual release, pro and public version

Availability: Stable.

Repository (public): http://github.com/vfremaux/moodle-mod_learningtimecheck.

Activity Description

the LearningTimecheck module is an administrative tool that offers a complete solution when learning time must be assessed for academic and administrative reasons.

the module is a deep rework of the community checklist module. The last versions have been heavily cleaned up to focus essentialy on the pedagogic time assessed contract measurement.

Basic concept

The content of an online course provided by moodle contains a set of resources, activities, interactions that are setup to allow a complete teaching/training activity in that working space. This is to be distinguished from the effective pedagogic contract passed between a learning institution and a learner. Using the LTC, the teachers will be able to select what is relevant to feed a formal pedagogic contract from all the course material, and provide an assessment method based on completion of the contract, or time assessment.

the LTC time assessment is based on “credit time allocation”, avoiding all previous debate on the legitimacy of a “measured” connection time which reveals often hard to obtain and justify.

the basic concept is that the acceptable items for a pedagogic contract are resources or activities implying a certain time of work. some learners may spend more, other less, depending on their own past background. This should be not important anymore in the calculation: the key point is given by the following essential question :

- how much time a reasonable learner would have to spend to acquire this knowledge or skill at this reasonable level of acquisition.

One this question has been answered, the pedagogic contract should accept to credit that time to any learner that complies pedagogic requirements of the item, wether it has been faster or slower to get them.

The LTC proposes a way to quantify those credits, calculate an overall pedagogic contract equivalent learning time, assess it and give outputs upon program completion.

how the teacher calibrates the pedagogic contract:

He selects the mandatory or optional or non relevant elements.

He quantifies the learning credit time of each element that will be earned y the learner if completion requirements are met.

Optionally quantifying the mentorship involvement provisional times, if some mentoring resource planning is to be made.

the teacher uses then standard moodle completion conditions to get the resources or activity completed.

the student learns with the online material, achieving requirements as usual. Completions and achievements are collected and will trigger pedagogic contract marks in the LTC.

Teaching admins can monitor the learners state against the pedagogic contract requirements and get all relevant output reports.

Other uses

Ce composant permet un suivi de part et d'autre de la progression pédagogique. Du côté enseignant des tableaux de suivi clairs permettent de connaitre la situation d'un coup d'oeil, et de pouvoir obtenir des informations de détail si nécessaire.

Du côté étudiant, le module affiche une liste de suivi du marquage. Avec certains formats de cours plus sophistiqués (format Page), plusieurs vues alternatives du module peuvent être insérées dans le cours pour générer des indicateurs de suivi immédiatement lisibles.

Sample 1 : Stuent side view on a page format

Sample 2 : student view on page format :

Guides

Installation guide

User guide

Technical guide

Features

Teacher features:

Define accurately equivalent learning credit time associated to each resource or activity

Capture all course activities and resources

Add additional credited entries.

Reference time for pedagogic contract items:

Declared time

Credit time (preset)

Used with block Use Stats, effective measured time

Ask for declarative time from students

declare their coaching spend time

Countermark teacher side the student completion marks

Monitor progress, group progress, and get reports from progress

Define coaching time preview

Get complete report about coaching time hypothesis

Student side

Monitor achievement marks coming from moodle completion

Declare time when declarative

Get own report of achievment

Pro version :

Output tunable PDF reports

Global site wide reports (with component report_learningtimecheck)

Related plugins

Learningtimecheck block: gives a course wide overview of progress for teachers, reveals longtimenosee students

Learningtimecheck reports: Provide site wide report capability by course, user (all courses), cohorts, and report generation mass batchs.

Required plugins

VF Libraries Additional plotting libaries (MIT JQPlot)

Builds

Travis-ci continuous integration

Note : Failing status is not necessarily the sign of a non functionning module. It just says that the moodle code standards check are not fullfilling. This is a continuous effort of us rewriting the plugin code to get it compliant.

Credits

Valéry Frémaux (valery@activeprolearn.com)- Developments and tests

Florence Labord (florence@activeprolearn.com) : Documentation and fonctionnal review

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