cwarwicker / moodle-block_elbp

Personal Learning Plan plugin for Moodle

Electronic Learning Blue Print (v2.0.1)

This plugin provides you with the Electronic Learning Blue Print block, which is an Individual Learning Plan system, which provides you with one centralised place to see all of the information relevant for a student, such as Attendance, Targets, Timetables, Registers, etc...

Features

The PLP is feature-rich and allows you to customise almost every aspect of it, so that you can implement it in a way which works best for your institution.

Some of these features include:

• 9 Built-in plugins

  • Attendance & Punctuality
  • Register
  • Targets
  • Tutorials
  • Comments
  • Course Reports
  • Attachments
  • Challenges
  • Learning Styles
  • Additional Support
  • Timetable

• 2 Additional plugins when you use the Grade Tracker block

  • Grade Tracker
  • Prior Learning

• Customise - Build your own custom plugins from 5 available types

  • Single Reports - Static forms. One per student.
  • Incremental Reports - A table of information, entered row by row.
  • Multiple Reports - Create multiple instances of the same report, with different values.
  • Internal DB - A read-only report, drawing data out of your Moodle database, as defined by an SQL query
  • External DB - A read-only report, drawing data out of an external database, as defined by an SQL query

• MIS Integration - Display data direct from your MIS/SIS system. Supports the following data sources:

  • MySQL
  • SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle
  • Firebird
  • Microsoft Access
  • SQLite

• Email Alerts - Set up custom alerts to suit your particular needs, based on PLP events, against whole courses, course groups or individual students.

• Report - See overview reports and build up your own custom reports which can be exported to Excel or saved into the system for later comparisons.

User Guide

Please see the Wiki

Screenshots

Viewing a Student's ELBP:

Viewing a Student's Targets:

Viewing a Student's Timetable:

Viewing a Student's Attendance data:

Configuring a custom form:

ELBP Plugin Configuration:

Viewing a Student's Customised Plugin (Personal Skills Development):

Requirements

• Moodle 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
• Plugin block_bc_dashboard installed
• Plugin local_df_hub installed

Installation

1. Download the latest version of the plugin from the Releases page.
2. Extract the directory from the zip file and rename it to 'elbp' if it is not already named as such.
3. Place the 'elbp' folder into your Moodle site's /blocks/ directory.
4. Run the Moodle upgrade process either through the web interface or command line.
5. Add the block to a page and start using it

License

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0

Support

If you need any help using the block, or wish to report a bug or feature request, please use the issue tracking system: https://github.com/cwarwicker/moodle-block_elbp/issues

If you want to help out with the development, feel free to submit commits for review.

moodle-block_elbp's Issues

comments - icons

Only show the icon on the left if there is action pending. Otherwise green tick makes it look positive, when the pos/neg icon is on the right.

My Students link navigates to Error Invalid access permissions page

My Students link navigates to Error Invalid access permissions warning page when logged in as a teacher in a course. I have changed all bc_dashboard permissions for the teacher role and the personal tutor role and have allowed elbp:elbp_admin with no improvement.

Default plugin fields

Need to set default fields to be included on plugin installs

Single Report custom plugin doesn't update on screen

After saving, it still shows the data from before the form was edited and have to reload the ELBP layout, or close and open the popup to see the new data.

Course Reports - Templates

Have customisable templates for reports, so teacher can pick a template and it automatically fills out the student's name and details, replacing the template placeholders.

Sort out theme layout

Layout of the actual plugin doesn't look very good in any of the available layouts. Either too small, or no header/breadcrumbs, etc...

Try and work out a way of improving that, or supply theme layouts for the most common themes.

Custom Plugin: Replace notifications with email alerts

Replace the notificaitons section, by just implementing into the email alerts, with an extra option for "all users", so they can sign up to alerts for all users in the system (if they have the relevant permissions)

add sup - add target - type not filled

Type should be auto set to AddSup when adding a target from addsup session, but it's not.

Register unaligned again

Expanded view of register is unaligned and header is messed up

Attachment Plugin - Allow multiple uploads

Allow multiple file uploads at the same time

reporting element- last tutorial date doesn't work for user rows

Shows unix timestamp for individual user rows.

Need to either change from sql to function type, or change buitreports somehow to also call a function even if sql.

elbp_image_url() doesn't work in AJAX calls

The $OUTPUT global variable is empty in ajax calls, e.g. View All Tutorials, so it defaults to the old pix_url() which is deprecated and will be removed in later moodle versions.

Cron logs

For plugins with data crons, have a log of times it ran, which can be displayed in a table, so we know if its running properly or not.

email alerts - didn';t send?

debug

hidden

Plugin Fields - Options - Remove an option and it inserts them as an object instead of array in the json string

Plugin Fields - Options - Remove an option and it inserts them as an object instead of array in the json string

custom plugin - test query - not convering variables

Not converting varialbles to values, so SQL errors

Check code behind automated progress bar

Check confidentiality actually works as expected

Challenges and Student Profile fields

Target % doesn't update when status changed through tutorial

If you change the target to Achieved through the tutorial, instead of the target screen, it doesn't use the update to 100% completion setting.

Log viewer

Have a log viewer/report so admins can more easily search the logs, without having to write an sql query

css issue with expanded boxes

table.elbp_popup_header_table

Needs background-color: inherit, as in some themes it sets a colour, which overrides the colour set into the div above it.

Error reading from database - running custom reports on Reporting Dashboard

Results
Error reading from database

More information about this error

Continue

*Update codebase to 3.7*

Update codebase to work with Moodle 3.7 and its AMD javascript stuff

Attachment Plugin - Missing file types

text/rtf

redo tutor assignments

Page is quite old, redo it and put it into the bc_dashboard section.

Confidentiality - have a rethink

Maybe rename the levels to make more sense.

Also, do we really need the PRIVATE one, which is just the student and their parent/guardian/employer? When would it ever be required?

Role creation script

Error reading from database - Statistics link on Parent Portal

Moodle Grade Tracker Development
Page path
Dashboard / ► Site home
Error reading from database

More information about this error

Academic year isn't working properly

Needs testing to make sure it works, some plugins are just not displaying anything with the setting in place.

add sup autosave - duplicating

If the addsup session autosaves after adding a target and you also then click save, it creates a new one instead of updating.

Check in other browsers

Check everything in supported browsers:

Opera
Chrome
Firefox
Edge

elbp

Hi
I am trying to install the elbp block, but when it goes to install I get the error below, I've downloaded the latest version from Github, not quite sure why the error is occurring any help would be greatly appreciated.

block_elbp
XML database file errors found

More information about this error

×Debug info: Errors found in XMLDB file: Problem loading table lbp_target_set_attributes, Problem loading index changeme, Empty FIELDS attribute
Error code: ddlxmlfileerror
×Stack trace:
line 352 of /lib/ddl/database_manager.php: ddl_exception thrown
line 368 of /lib/ddl/database_manager.php: call to database_manager->load_xmldb_file()
line 902 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to database_manager->install_from_xmldb_file()
line 446 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins_blocks()
line 1754 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins()
line 699 of /admin/index.php: call to upgrade_noncore()

Session Timeout Popup

Popup to alert the user if their session has timed out when they try to do something, like I put into the gradetracker.

Move Timetable plugin into Core

Remove the elbp_timetable block entirely and move it all into the core elbp plugin.

Checkbox validation not working properly

Component // Custom Forms

If a checkbox is ticked, and the value being passed through is the string "None", for some reason it doesn't work.

pChart doesn't work any more

Find another chart library to add attendance bar charts back in (removing for now)

Datepicker css

Datepicker has a big gap between it and the element

student profile edit link not working

nothing happens

JS error in elbp_display_attribute_creation_js()

$('#attribute_row_'+numA).append('<td id="attribute_row_'+numA+'_field_edit_col" class="noSort"><input type="hidden" id="attribute_row_'+numA+'_field_default_input" name="elementDefault['+numA+']" value="" /><input type="hidden" id="attribute_row_'+numA+'_field_instructions_input" name="elementInstructions['+numA+']" value="" /><a href="#" onclick="editAttribute(\''+numA+'\');return false;" title="{$string['edit']}"><img src="{$OUTPUT->pix_url('t/edit')}" /></a></td>');

$('#attribute_row_'+numA).append('<td><a href="#" onclick="removeField('+numA+');return false;" title="{$string['delete']}"><img src="{$OUTPUT->pix_url('t/delete')}" /></a></td>');

The pix_url bits need the single quotes to be escaped.

Unable to access elbp block

Ability to customise LearningStyles plugin

Plugins need default fields

Plugins don't have their default form fields when installing the block.

Icon upload directory needs changing

Currently when you upload a new icon it saves it into the web direcftory, under /elbp/plugins/Comments/pix/custom

This is a terrible way to do it and I need to have them stored in the dataroot, with a download file to retrieve them, like I have in the Grade Tracker.

Ability to choose course categories to include

Ability to choose course categories to include in the ELBP, so courses from all other categories are excluded from lists.

Last Tutorial in Reports

Hi
The reports feature is working great thanks to your last update, I do have a quick question, when the Last tutorial option is added to a report it doesn't display any option menus under the options heading and when I run the report doesn't return any results.

Regards

Smithy31

Parent Portal block not working

JS errors

Missing tab in target plugin settings

Hi I have set up my target section and I can add new targets, but when students logon they are unable to set their own targets, when I go into the configuration section of the targets plugin I only have 2 tab main and settings, on our old site we had 3 tabs main, targets and target sets. I'm not quite sure what I've done or whether theses two issues are linked.

I have attached two screen shots, any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Paul

Running a report

Hi

Every time I go to run a report I receive the following error, not quite sure why this is happening.

Exception - Call to undefined function gt_get_course()

Regards

Smithy31

Improve design consistency

E.g. There is no real rhyme or reason to why some settings are under "Main" and some under "Settings".

Make things generally more consistent.