Using Moodle 3.4.5. A lot of teachers complain that the list of their courses in the navigation is "random", and what is worse, it cannot be changed. Can teachers sort the courses, so that the current ones would be on top etc? Now the list is very cumbersome with 80+ courses, for example.
What is the order of the "my courses" list in the navigation bar?
by Samuli Karevaara -
Number of replies: 6
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Re: What is the order of the "my courses" list in the navigation bar?
by Samuli Karevaara -
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Re: What is the order of the "my courses" list in the navigation bar?
by Gareth J Barnard -
I think MDL-372 took around 12 years and 9 months, so anything is possible.
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Re: What is the order of the "my courses" list in the navigation bar?
by Samuli Karevaara -
LOL, yes, there is hope
But as for my original question, does anyone know where the order of the courses in the My Courses list is coming from?
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Re: What is the order of the "my courses" list in the navigation bar?
by Luiggi Sansonetti -
Hi
without any guarantee of my interpretation, I think that the sorting is done in 2 phases
- first the courses are sorted in order that we decide at the admin level (category management)
- then according to the order of the categories
for example:
cat1
course1-1
course2-1
course3-1
cat2
course1-2
course2-2
If we don't display "my" categories it looks like this:
course1-1
course2-1
course3-1
course1-2
course2-2
Go up one level a category in the tree structure to check if I am not mistaken....
So if you resort as
cat2
course1-2
course2-2
cat1
course1-1
course2-1
course3-1
You might have this
course1-2
course2-2
course1-1
course2-1
course3-1
In reply to Luiggi Sansonetti
Re: What is the order of the "my courses" list in the navigation bar?
by Samuli Karevaara -
Thanks for this, I thought of the same. However, something else is going on too: in the navigation block the order is different than in the navigation menu item My Courses. I tried moving courses inside the category, and sometimes they would change places in the navigation, and sometimes not. I have three courses in the Misc category, for example, and the order could be A, B, C in the category, and I'm seeing B, A, C in the nav block and A, C, B in the upper nav menu. It's driving me insane slightly annoying me.
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Re: What is the order of the "my courses" list in the navigation bar?
by Luiggi Sansonetti -
Hi
The upper nav menu works with a A-Z sort I think, no ?
Exemple from nav (sort by cat AND after by course) :
Exemple from menu (sort by course)
(done with fordson, but i think it's general)