Analytics for Course Engagement (ACE) is a platform that provides students and staff with an enhanced real-time view of online engagement with learning systems. It builds on top of the Moodle Analytics API https://moodledev.io/docs/apis/subsystems/analytics/ and the new Reportbuilder API.
The University of Canterbury is currently running this on a heavily modified version of Moodle 3.9 that contains a backport of Moodle's reportbuilder API but are currently working on a version for Moodle 4.1.
It also currently requires the following trackers which we have been working on and trying to get into Moodle core.
- https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-73184 (now in 4.1)
- https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-75170 (now in 4.1)
- https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-73294
- https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-72974
- https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-73104
- https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-72831
We also use the a custom dashboard plugin local_dboard (based on local_vxg_dashboard) and a block that allows us to embed reportbuilder sources within the dashboard which is not currently available as an open-source plugin.
| Moodle version | Branch |
|---|---|
| Moodle 3.9 | MOODLE_39_STABLE |
| Moodle 4.0 | MOODLE_40_STABLE |
- Log in to your Moodle site as an admin and go to Site administration > Plugins > Install plugins.
- Upload the ZIP file with the plugin code. You should only be prompted to add extra details if your plugin type is not automatically detected.
- Check the plugin validation report and finish the installation.
The plugin can be also installed by putting the contents of this directory to
{your/moodle/dirroot}/local/ace
Afterwards, log in to your Moodle site as an admin and go to Site administration > Notifications to complete the installation.
Alternatively, you can run
$ php admin/cli/upgrade.php
to complete the installation from the command line.
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