New Feature in iLite Mobile Moodle

We have added a new feature! The iLite Mobile Moodle now shows all the attempts made in a quiz and scows all the scores for all the attempts in a specific quiz.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see in this image, this shows you all the courses that iLite Mobile Moodle has.

Select the course “French in Moodle”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As depicted in this image, all the quizzes for “French in Moodle” are displayed.

Select the quiz “Basics”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see by the above image, there were two attempts on the quiz “Basics” with the date and the score.

- Kirsten

Download a trial version of the iLite Moodle Dashboard

Visit iLite to download the 7 day trial version of the iLite Moodle Dashboard.

There are some funky new additions to the Dashboard which include the multi-lingual support, improved User search functionality and the Course Relationship Map.

The Course Relationship Map is something completely unique to the Dashboard. As you can see in the image below, we can see that the Course – iLite Dashboard, has 8 Users. We can also see that 5 of the 8 Users have a small (+) sign below them. This indicates that they are enrolled in other Courses. By clicking on the (+) sign, we expand a 3rd level, which shows the Courses that this User has enrolled for. Hover over the icon to view the Course name.

You may be wondering what is the purpose of the Relationship map, well it is to help you see what Courses the Users are doing at a glance. If a Course has prerequisites, you can view if they have been met simply by calling up the Relationship map.

- Kirsten

 

iLite Mobile Learning for the iPhone

It is exciting times here at iLite. We have just finish developing the interface for the iPhone. What happens here is that this interface extracts your data from Moodle and allows you to view it on your iPhone.

Visit http://www.ilite.co.za/i/ to have a look at this component. Please play around and send any feedback or comments that you may have to me at kirsten@ilite.co.za

Username:  ian

Password:  password

- Kirsten

Dashboard going multi-lingual

It’s time for another sneak preview of the Dashboard. We have been hard at work for several months now trying to make the Dashboard unique, interactive and visually stimulating. New features include a multi-lingual function and has provisions so far for 6 languages, which are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French and German. We will look at adding more languages as we get closer to the release date.

Another new and exciting feature is the Degrafa graph inside the datagrid. This allows the scores to be more visually stimulating.  The courses that the user is enrolled for is also listed as well as their quiz results and the course interactivity.

-Kirsten

Dashboard on AIR

So after playing around a bit with AIR, I finally decided to go that route and build a version of the Dashboard. Looking down the road, I think this may become the only version we will maintain and release. If you would like to give the AIR version a trial, you can do so by clicking on the icon below and downloading it.

Once you have downloaded and installed the AIR app, you can log in using the username: miranda, and the password: password

To test it on your own site you will need to download and install a few php file, and register on our site. If you would like to know more about the Dashboard and why it will make your life easier, drop us a mail.

What’s the score

The Dashboard makes viewing a Users scores very easy. In the image below you can see that the iLite Dashboard course has two quizzes. When selecting this course from the list of courses the student has done, both scores are immediately displayed, both as a percentage and graphically. Had a score or more than 80% been achieved, the bar would have been in green. Just another way using the Dashboard makes tracking your users easier.

Dashboard testing

Where are looking for a few beta testers for our Moodle dashboard application. If there are any of you out there running Moodle 1.9 and would like to deploy and test the dashboard, drop us a mail.

UserID to view the demo dashboard:

Username: mary
Password: password

Requirements:

1. Basic knowledge of PHP. You will have to update the config file, and copy some folders to the root of your server. The Dashboard uses the PHP files to access the Moodle DB and return data. This is only a READ, and nothing will be touched, modified or changed in your DB.
2. A userID

What to do:

1. Copy the PHP folder to your server
2. Copy the Flash folder to your server
3. Create an ID at iLite (or we can send you one)
4. Update the config.php file with your Moodle details

How the Dashboard works.
The Dashboard uses the PHP files on your server to retrieve the data from your Moodle database. AMFPHP is used, which gives us a little more performance. Use the icons at the top to navigate between the different screens.

If you would like more information, or have some ideas about how we can improve it, please drop me a mail at kirsten@ilite.co.za

If your idea is good enought, we’ll use it and give you a copy of the Dashboard free.

All that we would like from you is a little feedback on how the Dashboard is preforming. Things you do like and things you don’t like. Information like the OS you are using, the number of users and courses you have and whether you are using SCORM Activities.

Kirsten

Dashboard Demo

After a long process of development we are finally at a point where we can showcase a demo!

Log into http://www.ilite.co.za/eDash/#

User name:   james

Password: password

Remember guys, feedback is always welcome and appreciated.

- Kirsten

The art of being lazy

So, it’s been a while since my last post. Since falling off the radar, I set about rebuilding Dashboard, and adding in features I think  it needs. I think I am on version 3 now, and I know this is not the last version.

As a developer I will look at a problem, or a task we need to perform in Moodle, and ask, “How can I make that easier?” This then is the start of some long nights, which sometimes even result in a solution. I read somewhere that being lazy is a good thing, if you are a developer. Or should that be  an ‘application architect’. By definition a developer develops, but an architect plans first. Anyway, it’s because we are lazy, that we find solutions to problems.

Case in point. We needed to know all the results of a particular user in Moodle. Oddly, or not, Moodle does not have the ability to do this. So I fiddled about and come up with a solution which will show all the scores of all the courses for a user in a nice little graph.

All scores

On the left are the Users details. A grid below show the Courses and Groups for that User. On the right is the fruit of my labour. All scores less than 80% are indicated in red. If you hover your mouse over the chart (no not this image) a tooltip will show the actual percentage.

And so there you have it. It’s all about being lazy.

Sean

What’s the score

That’s what I asked myself. How many unique hits has our e-learning site had in the past month, or since the first of January this year. I know there is a block in Moodle that shows this information, but I wanted to see it on the Dashboard I am building.

So I set about fiddling with the date function in PHP, and wiped up the following to graphs

Hits per Month

Hits per Year

It’s not rocket science from a coding point, but visually it does help to immediately get an idea of how active the site is. I guess the next thing would be to click on a bar and view the users for that day, or the course. Or maybe view the most active courses……

Looks like I might be adding another graph to my Dashboard.