Active user session management

1 Initial Problem

Unfortunately, there is no option in ILIAS to manage active user sessions - for example, to see what users in specific roles/courses are actively using on ILIAS.

Scenario
Our organisation restricts the use of mobile phones and in an in-class scenario where students are completing a short test on their mobile phones, staff are unable to actively monitor the use of devices in real-time. Staff currently have access to the UserTakeOver plugin, however, this does not achieve the goal of being able to see/manage what students are doing on their devices live.

2 Conceptual Summary

We are ideally looking for a dashboard whereby:

• a teacher can select a course/role/staff (via org. units) which they would like to monitor
• they can see which page someone is on, or which test they are completing
  • if a test - see which question currently being completed
  • see time spent on page/question (eg. to monitor if someone has closed ILIAS in the foreground but kept it open in the background)
    • the colour of the block changes as time progresses - set by admin
• a teacher can 'jump to' view/page in question if needs be
• auto-refresh where possible or an option to refresh
• logging/exporting

• From an administration perspective, being able to disable some roles from being monitored, or at least limiting which roles have access to this dashboard.

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

• Potentially implemented in the Administration area, or added through the Repository/Course in question.
• Alternatively, this could be linked in with Organisational Unit areas in ILIAS and implemented in the 'Staff' section.

3.2 User Interface Details

From my perspective, this would be a brand new dashboard, with a context bar at the top (under the Breadcrumb bar) with options to:
- Export
- Choose org unit/course/role to monitor
- Set refresh intervals

The user activity would be in 'blocks' presenting:
- time elapsed
- main resource in use and subsection/use of that resource
- link to resource; hyperlink

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

This will require completely new UI concepts. I have attached a screenshot of an 'idea' of this feature concept. 

3.4 Accessibility Implications

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4 Technical Information

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5 Privacy

The use of personal data would mainly be for logging/export/use of the dashboard.

- Username/First-Last Name
- Time elapsed in session
- Activity currently being performed in ILIAS at that time

6 Security

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7 Contact

• Author of the Request: [jroj]Jakub Roj
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8 Funding

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9 Discussion

10 Implementation

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