Planner: Site administrator

Planner is a Moodle course activity plugin which aims to support students in preparing for assessment. It is a time management and organisational activity in essence. It should be of particular use to students who need additional and/or explicit guidance and support in this regard.

Planner works as follows:

• Setup:
  
  • Teacher defines a template of steps which students should complete in preparing for an assessment, including the percentage of time each step should take.
  • Teacher associates a Planner with either a Moodle Assignment or Quiz, which has start dates and end dates set.
  • Teacher calculates the steps for the students.
•  Operation:
  
  • Planner works backwards from the assessment due date and calculates the dates by which students should aim to complete each of the steps.
  • Planner populates these steps in students’ Moodle calendars.
•  Student use:
  
  • Students access Planner for information and guidance on each step, and can self-check when they have completed a step.
  • Students receive automatic email reminders if they miss a step.
  • Students can recalculate the steps for themselves if they know they will start preparing their assessment later than the defined start date.
•  Reporting:
  
  • Teachers can access a report of students who have self-checked their step completion.

Users are encouraged to browse shared Planner templates at MoodleNet (URL https://moodle.net/search?q=planner), which they can copy and paste into their own templates on their own Moodle. Users are also encouraged to share any templates they create themselves.