How to add new item in the secondary menu inside a course?

Re: How to add new item in the secondary menu inside a course?

by Stefan Scholz -
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Hi Azmat,

We’re currently working on this feature in two of our plugins:

Designer (course format)
https://moodle.org/plugins/format_designer

We call it “hero activity” and it allows the editing teacher to add an activity to the secondary navigation. We think this makes sense for various use cases:
- the forum
- the conference/meeting room
- the whiteboard of the class (we have a plugin for this, too)
- important information in a page (you could use the filter codes plugin to add the course summary in there, and even other information like some course custom field)

Will be included in Designer 1.4 (free version) and released mid-October.


Dash Pro
https://bdecent.de/product/dash-pro/

The next version of Dash pro (1.3) is capable of creating dashboards per course. And dashboards can be added to the secondary navigation of courses as well.

Use cases are similar to above, but rather than using activities in the course, it’s pretty much an extra page where you place blocks.

Dash 1.3 will be released next week.

Hope this helps!
Stefan
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Re: How to add new item in the secondary menu inside a course?

by Nicolas Dalpe -
Hi Stefan Scholz,
I looked at the GitHub repo of the designer course format into lib.php -> extend_course_navigation() and the method looks identical to the topic format. Maybe I am not looking at the right place? Would you mind elaborating on how to add items to the course secondary nav?

Thank you in advance for your time