Location:

Course “Gear” menu / Reports tab / Competency breakdown

Description:

Provided as part of the new CBE features. Allows teachers to view and rate course-linked competencies of each student in course.  The report is filtered by single students through a pull-down menu. Links allow a user with appropriate permissions to update the student status with respect to each competency. Actions in the header support messaging the student and adding to contacts.

Intended audience:

Probably instructors. Academic program administrators would not usually be investigating competencies at the single-course level.

Purpose:

View and administer individual learner competency levels within a single course. This is likely to be used most in a “Social Efficiency” style curriculum, though there are ways of expressing competencies that allow for other curriculum types.

Suggestions:

Enhance this report to provide the following information:

1. Reflect the hierarchy of competencies in the report output by showing outline index or indentation
2. Summarize student achievement of competencies across multiple students (e.g. how many students met/didn’t meet a given competency within the course? Within a cohort? Within a group?)
3. Provide a time-based report to show when competency levels were met per student, e.g. overlay line graphs for each competency in the course, showing increases in students who have met each competency/level.
4. Show how many and which activities are tied to each competency in a two-column view. Enable filtering by graded activities. Highlight mis-matches between competencies and graded activities.
5. Show how many attempts or activities have been submitted by the learner so far before competency is reached.
6. Both links (Competency and Rating) produce the same result, but the purpose of neither link is clear. It might be more consistent with other Moodle forms to display the data in a row and add an “Edit” icon.

Conversion to Configurable Reports:

The following enhancements to Configurable Reports (detailed above) would be needed to convert this report:

1. Report type: competency (or join to Course)
2. Cell calculations (especially concatenation and ability to substitute text strings for values)
3. Support Scales (allow substitution of Scale value for integer)
4. Text strings
5. Filter value in header
6. URL Link to related report
7. Receive URL parameters
8. Bulk action (special case, as only one user is shown in this report, but there need to be actions to message user or add user to contacts)