Hello Alexander, I think your best bet would be to use the API to create that functionality yourself. I haven't done it personally, but from what I've read in the documentation, it seems it could provide you with that kind of behavior.

Hi Alexander, There's no ready-made filter that would simultaneously organize by category and completion status. Brandon is correct: Your best bet would be to write a filter of your own. This page has some instructions: https://github.com/CLAMP-IT/moodle-blocks_filtered_course_list/wiki/External-filters

Hi there!
I need your help, I don't know how to show all the courses without generating a link to the category, that is, I want the list of courses that fall within that category to appear in the block itself.
Thank you so much!

Hi Andrés, there are a couple reasons you might be seeing a list of category links rather than links to the courses in the categories. The most likely reason is that you are a site admin and you have the "Manager view" setting at "A manager sees all courses." A second possibility is that you have the "Manager view" at "A manager sees own courses" but you are not enrolled in any courses. Any user, admin or otherwise, will see that generic category list if they are not enrolled in any courses. A third possibility comes into play if your site has only one category. In that case you may want to adjust the setting "Max for single category". The default is 10, and the way that works is this: Anyone who would see the generic list will see a list of courses as long as there are only 10 or fewer. If there are more than 10 they will see a link to the category page. The idea is to prevent a situation where a manager or guest sees a list with hundreds of courses, but it's configurable, in case that is the issue. If none of these addresses your question, please offer some more details about the category structure of your site and how you would like the block to work. Cheers!

Hi Kevin!
Thank you very much for answering my question, yesterday I was testing the block more thoroughly and I understand what you are saying, in effect the block only shows the courses in which the user is enrolled.
Is there a way to show all the courses () visible to the user of the platform? (regardless of whether you are enrolled or not).
Thank you very much and success!

PD: The structure of the platform is as follows

-Subjects
Institutions
Subjects (courses)
-Postgraduate
-Tutorials

You might find that an enrolment-method filter does what you would like. It would allow you, for instance, to show all the courses that have guest- or self-enrollment. In practice, those would be the courses that a user would have access to, but you could use that filter on any enrolment method you prefer. The documentation for that type in particular is here: https://github.com/CLAMP-IT/moodle-blocks_filtered_course_list/wiki/Filter-by-enrolment-method. Just let me know if you have any other questions.

Hi. I was wondering whether this plugin might work to display a course list filtered by the role that the user has in the course. We have users who are enrolled in some courses as learners and other courses as teachers and their current learning block is unable to differentiate between these.

Hi Kevin, I have one suggestion based on my needs as administrator in our moodle (used as KMS), and one question for you. First suggestion to replace already mentioned line in previous comments in "block_filtered_course_list.php" in latest 4.4.2 version - line 150 -

$this->mycourses = enrol_get_my_courses(null, "$sortstring");

With

if (is_siteadmin()){
$this->mycourses = core_course_category::get(0)->get_courses(array('recursive' => true));
} else {
$this->mycourses = enrol_get_my_courses(null, "$sortstring");
}

This will give the administrators that much wanted capability to filter all courses as they need, and other users will see only courses where they are enroled as that was the main purpose of the plugin. With that said, I have problem with 'generic_list' shown to users in cases where they don't have enroled courses in specified category. Can you please help me with that because I don't have time to find in the code where to turn it off, and replace with "no courses" for example.
Thanks in advance!

Hi, the plugin is very useful but I can't understand one thing. If the student has no courses in which he is enrolled, the plugin shows all courses. When I enroll him in a course it works and includes the category and course in which he is enrolled. I saw it in the settings but couldn't find any controls. Thanks for the help.

@LP _ Hi, I hope it is not too late for response. This is incredible useful plugin, and I am using multiple f_c_l blocks on custom dashboard to show different types of course categories. For me too setting - Hide "All courses" link - is not working, and I came to solution with changing couple of lines of code.
The code in question is in "block_filtered_course_list.php" file around line 264 (last if-else if).
Instead of:

if (count($this->rubrics) > 0) {
$content = new \block_filtered_course_list\output\content($this->rubrics, $this->instance->id);
$this->content->text = $output->render($content);
} else if ($this->fclconfig->filters != BLOCK_FILTERED_COURSE_LIST_GENERIC_CONFIG) {
$this->liststyle = 'generic_list';
$this->fclconfig->filters = 'generic|e';
$this->_process_filtered_list();
}

that is showing all courses, I put:

// My replacment code for no courses enroled message instead of generic list.
$usernome = fullname($USER);

if (count($this->rubrics) > 0) {
$content = new \block_filtered_course_list\output\content($this->rubrics, $this->instance->id);
$this->content->text = $output->render($content);
} else {
$this->content = new stdClass();
$this->content->text = '

Sorry '.$usernome.',
you don\'t have enroled courses in this
type of filtered categories.

';
$this->content->footer = '';
return $this->content;
}

As you can see $usernome should be defined before If-else.
I found this personalized message is much more adequate for users without enrolment, and you can change message to better suit your system.

Of course this is not the best practice in moodle plugin development, and this message should be actually placed in language strings file and called here, but I didn't have time, sorry.
I hope somebody will find this useful.

We are so grateful for this amazing plugin! Thank you Charles, Kevin, and Andrew, for creating and maintaining it! We plan to upgrade to Moodle 4.4 in late May 2024 and will look for an updated version of this plugin for that Moodle version then. Hope that fits into your plans for upgrade timeline. Thanks again!
Also, any inklings of Moodle making the functionality of this plugin available in core?
Lastly, wondering if you have seen similar categorization abilities created in other plugins for the "/grade/report/overview/index.php" grades page for students, to group and sort those courses (especially useful when multiple years of courses are on one Moodle instance)?

Nathan

Please guide me. I installed the plugin. I added plugin block to the course page. It shows list of courses which I organized previously.
When I add filter text to Filter configuration field, nothing is changing. Why it is so?

Hi, I saw you've been working on showing this block in the Mobile App's Dashboard. Is it now possible ?
A bit lost with the mobile app right now, but this would be the n°1 customization we'd need to just start using mobile. Cheers and thanks !

Hi, FYI: after installing your block_filtered_course_list on my moodle-installation 4.2.2+, all the admin pages loaded very slow. After deinstallation of the plugin, the pages loades quick again.

hi trying to get a new 4.5 install to work on boost union 4.5 and moodle 4.5 but the syntax does nothing even with plugin settings empty and block settings empty all I can get is a single course categories dropdown with category folders that open into new pages previously I had dropdowns for each category at the top level with this category | collapsed | 0 (top level) | 0 (all descendants)