Brickfield Education Labs

Introduction

The Competency Awarder report plugin allows teachers and managers to award course competencies to their course students, see which course competencies they may have already been awarded and, in which case, what grade was given.

 

Additionally, managers and teachers can award course competencies to users either individually or in bulk from this report.

 

This is a course report which fits into the navigation to standard Moodle course reports.

The Competency Awarder report with the Report filters collapsed, the selected dates to show data for, the links to download as csv and xlsx, and the competency table. The competency table has one row per user and a final row for bulk awarding competencies. This table has columns for selecting users, three columns for user information, first name, last name, and email address. Then a column for each course competency. No users have been awarded competencies.

Administration

This section is for the administration of the Competency Awarder plugin.

Version Support

This plugin has been developed to work on Moodle releases 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3.

Deployment

To install the Competency Awarder report (report_bfcompetencyawarder):

  1. Unzip and copy the bfcompetencyawarder folder into Moodle’s report/ folder.
  2. Go to Site administration > Notifications to install the report.

 

Further installation instructions can be found on the Installing plugins Moodle documentation page.

Configurations

The configurations for the Brickfield Competency report are:
  • Date issued format – How to display the format of the date issued value.
  • Default report start date – Default number of days to use for report start date.
  • Enable Competency Awarding – Enable competency awarding link in report.
  • Competency ID ordering – Comma separated string of competency IDs, for ordering the display of these competencies
  • Excluded Competency IDs – Comma separated string of excluded competency IDs, to hide these competencies.
  • Show all competencies for Admins – Enable or disable if admins can view all competencies, including excluded competency ID’s.

Capabilities

Capability nameManagerTeacher
report/bfcompetencyawarder:view: View Competency Awarder reportsAllowAllow
report/bfcompetencyawarder:viewhidden: View hidden competencies  
report/bfcompetencyawarder:uploadcsvAllowAllow

View capability

The capability “report/bfcompetencyawarder:view” allows users with the relevant permissions for that context to view the Competency Awarder report.

 

This capability is granted by default to these following archetype roles, using course context:

  • Manager
  • Teacher

Viewhidden capability

The capability “report/bfcompetencyawarder:viewhidden” allows users with the relevant permissions for that context to view hidden competencies, deemed as excluded by the relevant global setting, in the Competency Awarder report.

 

This capability is granted by default to no archetype roles.

Uploadcsv capability

The capability “report/bfcompetencyawarder:uploadcsv” allows users with the relevant permissions for that context to upload CSV files to import user competency gradings.

 

This capability is granted by default to these following archetype roles, using course context:

  • Manager
  • Teacher

Copyright and funding

This plugin has been developed, maintained, and is copyrighted by Brickfield Education Labs. Initial funding for this plugin was provided by the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University.