Brickfield Education Labs

Introduction

This involves adding the Category Overview block to the course for both your own use and for the use of the students. Once added to the dashboard or to a given course, it will be visible to the students and it will provide an easy way for both them and you to navigate to courses through the block’s search field.

Adding the Category Overview block

To add the Category Overview block:

  1. Go to a course.
  2. Enable Edit mode.
  3. Click the Add a block link in the block drawer.
  4. Click the Category overview link.

Category Overview

To access the “Category Overview” block:

  1. Go to a course.
  2. Locate the Course Categories block in the block drawer.

 

The “Category Overview” block displays:

  • Course category – The categories.
  • Search input – The search input.
  • Go – The button to submit the search.
The Category overview block displaying links to the three categories: Science, History, and Art. Below the categories is a search field with an adjacent ‘Go’ button.

Viewing a categories subcategories

To view a categories subcategories:

  1. Click the open icon beside a parent category.

Searching for a category

To search for a category:
  1. Type in a partial name or the full name of a category into the search,
  2. Click the Go button.