Moodle plugins directory: Catalogue | Moodle.org
Catalogue
Blocks ::: block_catalogue
Maintained by 
Brice Errandonea
Provides a visual and central place for a teacher to access everything he can use in his course (activities, reports, blocks, …) Frequently used items can be marked as favorites for quick access. Unless the teacher wants to delete or move an activity or block, he rarely needs to switch to editing mode. Students can also use the Catalogue to access the tools they're allowed to.
No need, for users, to learn a first method to add an activity, then a different one to add a block, then a third one to use enrolment methods, and so on, searching the four corners of the UI... With Catalogue, it's the same method for all of these tools and they all can be found at the same place.
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Current versions available: 2
Purpose
Provides a visual and central place for a teacher to access everything he can use in his course (activities, reports, blocks, …) Frequently used items can be marked as favorites for quick access. Unless the teacher wants to delete or move an activity or block, he rarely needs to switch to editing mode.No need, for users, to learn a first method to add an activity, then a different one to add a block, then a third one to use enrolment methods, and so on, searching the four corners of the UI... With Catalogue, it's the same method for all of these tools and they all can be found at the same place.
Students
Students can also use the Catalogue to access the tools they're allowed to (image 6).Manager interface
A manager interface is included (image 3). There, managers can :- Edit the descriptions.
- Edit the documentation links.
- Hide or show items to the teachers. We don't recommend you hide too many tools. Better let the teachers choose which ones are their favorites. But if you want to hide a tool and test it before showing it to the teachers, that's possible.
Tool lists
9 lists of tools are available. The site administrator can choose (image 8) which ones of these lists will be displayed in the block, and in which order.- Activities : divided in 3 categories (Exercises, Collaboration, Other)
- Blocks : 3 categories (Monitor learners, Communicate with learners, Other)
- Custom labels : Requires the plug-in "mod_customlabels", by Valery Fremaux. 3 categories (Pedagogical elements, Structural elements, Other elements)
- Enrolments : 2 categories (Users and groups, Enrolment methods)
- Grades : 3 categories (Grade settings, Grade reports, "Outcomes, competencies, badges")
- Modules : Activities and Resources together. 4 categories (Resources, Exercises, Collaboration, Other). Of course, you're not supposed to use "Modules" and "Activities" at the same time on the same site.
- Reports : 1 category
- Resources : 1 category
The 9th list is now deprecated and will be replaced in a future version. Therefore, its icon hasn't been updated in version 2.0. Please avoid using this list :
- Sections : 1 category (Manage sections without switching to editing mode)
Authors
- Brice Errandonea brice.errandonea@u-cergy.fr (development, general idea, project lead)
- Caroline Pers caroline.pers@u-cergy.fr (external communication, user experience refinments, feature requests, beta-test)
- Salma El-mrabah salma.el-mrabah@u-cergy.fr (development, version 1.0)
- Nirina Andriamanantenasoa nirina.andriamanantenasoa@u-cergy.fr (element icons and descriptions, versions 1.x)
- Baptiste Bail baptiste.bail@u-cergy.fr (list icons, version 2.0)
- Noa Randriamalaka noa.randriamalaka@u-cergy.fr (SEFIAP director)
Université de Cergy-Pontoise
33, boulevard du Port
95011 Cergy-Pontoise cedex FRANCE
https://sefiap.u-cergy.fr
What's new in version 2.0 ?
- Course map : Navigate throughout your course. When you're inside an activity or resource, you can immediatly browse to the next (or previous) one by clicking an arrow, without a detour through the course main page.
- When you add an activity, resource or custom label, you can choose the exact place where you want to put it. Not necessarily at the end of a section (image 5).
- New list icons. One main color for each list.
- Subcategories are now displayed in columns rather than in rows (image 2 and 3).
- If editing mode is active, you can remove favorites directly from the block (image 4).
- More responsive design.
- Fixed a bug that prevented to find modules' description strings under some configurations.
- Support for Moodle 3.3
Screenshots
Contributors
Brice Errandonea (Lead maintainer)
tazi salma: Developper
Caroline Pers: External communication, user experience refinments, feature requests, beta test
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I'm glad you like the plugin. Thanks for your feedback. Please tell me which theme you're using so that I check how it changes the icons for activities and resources. About the students, we plan to add more lists in the future and some of them will contain items that students can use.
Have a nice august. Regards
Brice
I use often adaptable theme and I custom themes too. I often change the default images with my own pictures for activities/resources. So not sure this can help you but pictures are in a theme folder called "pix_plugins".
One more thing I tell me when I test this block it's : it will be good if we can add or custom an info text at the top of the block after the title "catalogue". For example "Catalogue : manager your course".
It will be more clear for teachers when they come for the first time in the course.
Regards.
Clément
How do i use after install this plugin.
This plug in seems very usefull. However I having troubles using it in moodle 3.4 version. It seems installed great, but when I try to add the block un a course it crashes and then dont let me enter the course anymore, giving me this message:
moodle Exception - Call to undefined function threesixo_supports()
What can I do?
Thanks
Thank you for this plugin, we included it in our last update to version 3.5 and the teachers liked it very much.
Now we are updating to version 3.8 and when we added a resource or activity, it was added, but moolde stops responding
We have detected that in lib.php the
function block_catalogue_check_sequences($course), executes :
rebuild_course_cache();
We have included the course identifier
rebuild_course_cache($course->id,true);
And that's how it works.
Best regards.
Ana.
i am getting an error when i add this block in course.
Exception - Call to undefined function structlabel_supports()
Debug info:
Error code: generalexceptionmessage
Do you know how i can fix it?
Thanks