General help

Hi Devin,

Here’s what I would do:

Create one course per topic - I’m sure there is some kind of structure that would sense to group so many documents. Place the documents in those courses, ideally again structured using sections in those courses. Having to levels might be to much for your use cases then you can either use one course only but with sections, or many courses with no sections.

Each file should then be configured with activity completion set to „require view“. This will enable you to easily track the first time a user opened the file. And each additional time can be seen in the logs.

Depending on the way you have setup your moodle site and if you want to use it for other purposes, you’ll then want to enrol your users somehow into the course(s) - either using self enrolment, cohort sync or maybe auto enrolment (plugin required).

Optional but i’d recommend it:
In order to provide a simple interface, and if you’re willing to do the extra effort, I’d then create a site wide glossary where you create one entry for each file. Use the glossary entry to provide an abstract, keywords and a link to the file activity. This brings the following benefits:
- search
- tagging
- alternate keywords/names
- categories
- alphabetical order
….

Using a database would also work, and if you don’t mind a little html/css, you could make it look really nice!

The idea is essentially using activity completion for tracking, use courses and/or course sections as folders for your files and a glossary/database as interface.

Let me know if that makes sense for you 😊

Best
Stefan