Brickfield Education Labs

Introduction

This Category Overview block provides a central hub that both teachers and students can use to navigate to courses they’re enrolled in. The block can be used to view the courses within specific categories, and search for courses you have access to across all of the categories.

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.

Administration

This section is for the administration of the Category Overview block.

Version Support

This plugin is supported for Moodle versions 3.9, 3.11, 4.00, 4.01, 4.02, and 4.03.

Deployment

To install the Category Overview block (block_category_overview):

  1. Unzip and copy the category_overview folder into Moodle’s blocks/ folder.
  2. Go to Site administration > Notifications to install the block.

 

Further installation instructions can be found on the Installing plugins Moodle documentation page.

Capabilities

Capability nameManagerTeacherAuth User
block/category_overview:addinstance: Add a new category overview blockAllowAllow 
block/category_overview:myaddinstance: Add a new category overview block to the Dashboard  Allow

Addinstance capability

The capability “block/category_overview:addinstance” allows users with the relevant permissions for that context to add the Category Overview block.

 

This capability is granted by default to these following archetype roles, using course context:

  • Manager
  • Teacher

Uploadcsv capability

The capability “block/category_overview:myaddinstance” allows users with the relevant permissions for that context to add the Category Overview block.

 

This capability is granted by default to these following archetype roles, using course context:

  • Auth user

Copyright and funding

This plugin has been developed, maintained, and is copyrighted by Brickfield Education Labs.