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course-activity-planner

course-activity-planner

Tool for instructors to plan course activities and synchronize the data with syllabus, LMS, etc.

Moodle courses can be cloned and updated with new activity dates from a calendar. Why?

How to use

General principle

Moodle activities can be planned relative to Seminars, Practica and Laboratories. Each activity adapts its start and end dates with the calendar of specific dates.

<activity to plan> <start at activity> <end at activity>

Ex: Quiz 1 is opened on Seminar 1 and closed right before Practicum 2 would be possible with this line: Q1 S1 P2

MQ1 stands for Moodle Quiz 1
S1 stands for Seminar 1
P2 stands for Practicum 2

Generic activites which are not linked to Moodle content can also be created.

By default, Quizzes and Exams can be planned without any Moodle file.

Start/End of activities

Adding F to an activity will read the finishing time of the activity. Adding nothing or S will read the start time.

Ex: Quiz 1 is opened right after Seminar 1 and closed right after Practicum 1 would be Q1 S1F P1F

Relative date or time modifiers

Amounts of time can be subtracted or added to activities.

Supports + or - combined with

minutes: m
hours: h
days: d
weeks: w

Ex: 1 hour after Seminar 1 would be S1+1h.

Ex: 15 minutes before Practicum 2 would be P2-15m.

Ex: Quiz 1 is opened 1 hour after Seminar 1 and closed 15 minutes before Practicum 2 would be Q1 S1+1h P2-15m

Absolute time modifier

The exact hours can be set to an activity.

Ex: the day of Seminar 1 at 23:55 would be S1@23:55.

This can be used along with relative date or time modifiers.

Ex: the day before Seminar 1 at 23:55 would be S1-1d@23:55.

Please Note when used with a relative modifier, the time modifier must be last.

S1-1d@23:55 is valid

S1@23:55-1d is invalid

Defining new activities

Activities can be configured by the administrator. Please refer to examples in python/config/activities.

Development setup

Create a google application with Identity Toolkit API access. Create an oauth2 client as a web application and save the client id. This id needs to be put in config/.
Setup a python virtualenv

cd python && virtualenv-3.4 env

Activate the python virtualenv

. env/bin/activate

Install pip dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run it

./course_activity_planner.py

Install bower dependencies

cd .. && bower install

Run unit tests

Run the test suite

nosetests

Optionally, you can get a coverage report

nosetests --with-coverage

Run the linter

pep8 && flake8

Production setup

Please see deploy/README.md

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