<p>The screen allows you to specify the <b>full name</b>, <b>code</b> or short name and <b>description</b> for this specific plan</p>
<p>You can also choose the category <b>context</b> in which to place this study plan. This is useful to manage access rights in a large moodle installation</p>
<p>The next options give more information about the timing of the plan. The <b>number of slots</b> to place courses in the plan can be specified.
This is usually used to show the different periods in the academic year. You can expect this to become more explicit in upcoming versions of the plugin.
The <b>start date</b> and <b>end date</b> of the plan help to show students and teachers which plans are current, and which were finished in the past.
They will default to start on august 1 of this year and continue until august 1 of next year, since that matches most academic years.</p>
<p>Finally we have the <b>aggregation style</b>, which is ised to determine how the courses show grades. There are a number of options available:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Moodle course completion</b><i>This is the recommended method to use.</i> All the conditions selected in the moodle course completion will be shown in the progress list.</li>
<li><b>Manual: Completed + required goals</b>Manually select a number of gradable activities from the course, which will be used to determine grade. Extra options for this method</li>
<li><b>Manual: Progress/Completed/Excellent classic</b><i>Deprecated! Do not use!</i> This is an old and convoluted method that is only in here for compatibility reasons</li>
</ul>
<h3>Details for Manual: Completed + required goals</h3>
<p>
With this aggregation method you manually select which grade items are used in the progress report. The design intent is to prepare a number of gradable items,
and describe the learning objectives for each course and use these to indicate completion. While any grade will be properly shown, it makes most sense to use a scale which indicates
if the student has either met the objective or not. The teacher or studyplan editor can also mark certain gradables/objectives as required or compulsory.
</p>
<p>The final outcome for the courses will then be determined based on the percentage of met objectives, provided that all required/compulsory objectives are met</p>
<p>The added options allow you to set the <b>threshold</b> percentage of completed objectives in each course to determine the outcome as <i>excellent</i>, <i>good</i>
or <i>completed</i>. If an objective is not met it will be marked as either "progress" (meaning that the student's work needs to be improved) or
"incomplete" (meaning that the student has not started working on this goal yet) </p>
<p>When <i>failed</i> results are enabled, any "progress" will be marked as "failed" when the course end date has passed</p>
<p>Finally, you can opt to have an object ive </p>
<aid="studylines"><h2>Setting up studylines</h2></a>
<p>Before you can add courses to the studyplan, you have to define <i>study lines</i>. You use them to group together courses in logical categories.
Most likely these are categories or themes within your curriculum.</p>
<p>For performance reasons, study lines can only be edited when in <i>study line edit mode</i>. The courses and flow between them will be hidden,
so the lines can be reshuffled and edited. You can toggle studyline edit mode with the toggle switch <i>edit stydy lines</i></p>
<p>Using the <b>Add study line</b> link, you can add a new studyline. You will then get a new window where you can enter details and select a handle color for this line</p>
<p>Here you can enter a <b>full name</b> for the study line that will be shown when you hover over the name, and a <b>code</b> that is a short name which will be shown
in front of the study line. Often this can be a short code. The <b>color</b> you pick will be shown in a little tab in front of the study line.</p>
<p>You can <i>drag</i> study lines to re-order them after you place them using the <iclass="fa fa-arrows"></i> crosshair arrows</p>
<p>Using the <iclass="fa fa-pencil"></i> and <iclass="fa fa-trash"></i> symbols you can edit and delete the studyline (only empty studylines can be deleted)</p>
If you have many studyplans using the same study line make-up you can export the first studyplan after you set up the study lines, and then import it on the next
study plans.<br>(Use <b>Advanced</b> -> <b>Backup studyplan</b> to find the <i>backup</i> and <i>restore</i> features)</div>
<aid="studycourses"><h2>Adding courses</h2></a>
<p>To add courses, you need to exit <i>study line edit mode</i> and open the toolbox using the <buttonclass="btn btn-primary">Open toolbox</button> button.
The toolbox will now open on the right of the screen. (Using the toggle button on top, you can also switch it to the left of the screen if needed)</p>
<p>The toolbox shows you all the categories you have access to and the courses in them. Simply drag the course you want to include from the toolbox and
drop it in one of the slots in the studyplan that now appear.</p>
<p> In this mode, the course details show you all the gradable activities in the course. You need to select which of them will be used to determine progress
and will be shown to the students and teachers in the studyplan view. You can also mark gradables ad <i>required</i>. Gradable activities marked as
such will all need to be completed for the course to be marked as completed, regardless of the minimum percentage configured</p>
<p>The toolbox also shows you the site-wide badges that are available for students. These can be dragged into the slots around and between the courses.</p>
<p>When you click on the <iclass="fa fa-gear"></i> icon in the badge it shows you additional information about the badge</p>
<p> To remove an arrow, click on the green square where the arrow starts. A red <iclass='fa fa-trash text-danger'></i> trash can icon will appear for
each line that starts there. Hover over the trash can icons to find the line you want to remove. The arrow for each trash can icon will be highlighted in red
once you hover over it with your cursor. Once you find the arrow you want to remove, click the trash icon.</p>
<p> To close the trash icon menu without removing an arrow, click the green square (now red) again.</p>
<p> You can add the following flow indicators:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Junction</b> Used to combine the results of multiple arrows. The color and resulting arrow will be based on the combination of the incoming arrows</li>
<li><b>Finish</b> Used to indicate the end of a study line. It's color is based on the combination of the incoming arrows, just like the junction </li>
<li><b>Start/continue</b> These indicators are always green and can be used to indicate the start of a series of courses</li>
Using the <i>Manual</i> aggregation method, these conditions are also used to determine whether a junction or finish will be shown as <i>good</i> or <i>excellent</i>
In those cases, at least the specified number of arrows need to be <i>good</i> or <i>excellent</i> in order to color the indicator as such.</div>
<h2>Associating students with a studyplan</h2>
<p>You can associate users with the studyplan in two ways: <b>Individually</b> or by <b>cohort</b></p>
<p>The recommended way is association by cohort, since that allows to dynamically allocate users to courses and studyplans by allocatong them to cohorts.
Assigning students to a studyplan individually is only useful in some fringe cases.
</p>
<p>To edit associations, click on the <spanclass="text-primary"><iclass="fa fa-users"></i> associations</span> link in the studyplan,
or click on the <iclass="fa fa-users text-primary"></i> icon in the studyplan overview.</p>
<p>In this window, type the first few letters of the <i>cohort</i>i> you want to link into the search bar. The matching cohorts will now be shown.</p>
<p>Click <buttontype="button"class="btn btn-success"><iclass="fa fa-link"></i> Add</button> to add the cohort to the studyplan</p>
<p>To remove a cohort from the studyplan, select it from the left list, and click <buttontype="button"class="btn btn-danger"><iclass="fa fa-chain-broken"></i> Delete</button>
</p>
<p>In order to link <i>individual students</i>, click <i>students</i> and follow the same procedure as lined out above for cohorts.</p>
<p>If you have cascading cohort sync enabled (see configuration), the system will automatically create a cohort-sync enrolment to all courses in the studyplan
for each cohort you have linked here. It can also automatically remove those enrolments when a cohort is unlinked from a studyplan.
</p>
<p>Individually linked students can also be cascaded down to the courses (if the feature is enabled). In those cases a manual enrolment is created for the users
in each of the studyplan's courses. Those enrolments will never be automatically removed, since that might deprive a student of study content.
