Brickfield Education Labs

Introduction

This Course Overview block provides students with a central hub on their dashboard for viewing their courses, with options for starring courses or removing old courses from view. The block’s content can then be filtered to only show the relevant courses, as decided by the students themselves.

 

Administrators can also hide certain configured courses from the students’ view, such as support or learning courses. This is the main difference between this plugin and the standard Moodle core course overview block.

The Course overview block, with three dropdown menus and one card. The first down-down menu is for filtering and is currently set to ‘All (except removed from view)’, below is the next two drop-down menus, one for ordering the courses and is currently set to order by ‘Course name’, one for selecting how the course displays and is currently set to ‘Card’. Below the drop-down menus is one card, with the course name, course category, percentage completed, and an actions menu displayed.

Administration

This section is for the administration of the Course Overview plugin.

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 Course Overview block (block_myoverview2):

  1. Unzip and copy the myoverview2 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.

Configurations

The configurations for the Course Overview block are:

  • Display categories – Display the course category on dashboard course items including cards, list items and summary items.
  • Available layouts – Course overview layouts which are available for selection by users. If none are selected, the card layout will be used.
  • All – Toggle as Yes or No to display this course filter.
  • All (except removed from view) – Toggle as Yes or No to display this course filter.
  • In progress – Toggle as Yes or No to display this course filter.
  • Past – Toggle as Yes or No to display this course filter.
  • Future – Toggle as Yes or No to display this course filter.
  • Custom field – Toggle as Yes or No to display this course filter.
  • Starred – Toggle as Yes or No to display this course filter.
  • Removed from you – Toggle as Yes or No to display this course filter.
  • Hidden course IDs – List of comma delimited course IDs that will be hidden from the views.

Capabilities

Capability name Auth user
block/myoverview2:myaddinstance: Add a new course overview block to Dashboard Allow

Myaddinstance capability

The capability “block/myoverview2:myaddinstance” allows users with the relevant permissions for that context to add the Course 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.