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Semester overview
This plugin is deprecated
With the latest development and improvements of moodle core functionality, this block should be considered as deprecated and will be no longer maintained.
WARNING: This plugin is deprecated. The last maintained version of the Plugin will be for Moodle 3.9. After 3.9 we won’t maintain the plugin any further.
The reason behind that is that now you can achieve similar functionality using the core Course Overview Block and its new filtering capabilities.
For further information on how to use moodle core features check the course overview functionality and the filter options.
If you are eager to keep this block alive you are welcome to adopt it: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Plugins_adoption_programme
Please get in touch with us, if you want to take it over and maintain it from Moodle 3.9 onwards.
Semsort module
In the Semsort block (blocks/semester_sortierung), courses are grouped by their starting dates in a semester view on the MyMoodle page.
The Semsort block also displays all MyMoodle information regarding the course activities of the individual courses.
The module will also feature a "My favourites" area, for which courses from different semesters can be selected and they will then be listed at the top of the favourites area.
Example
Use the Semsort module to display the winter and summer semesters with all your courses, and the favourites area for quick access.
Installation
Copy the module code directly to the "blocks/semester_sortierung" directory. Open the messages page in the administration are to automatically start the installation.
Admin settings
As an administrator you can set the default values instance-wide on the settings page for administrators in the Semsort block:
- Sort courses by semesters (checkbox)
- Winter semester months (checkbox)
- Show favourites (checkbox)
Useful links
Screenshots
I have news from our developer, Simeon Naydenov, who is responsible for this plugin.
This is the line which deals with the year:
$year = userdate($timestamp, '%Y');
What you are missing is a Hebrew Calendar type.
You can download different calendar types from here - https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=category&id=51
Our developer tested with a Persian calendar and the semsort block works as it should:
Summer term 1396
Winter term 1394/1395
Summer term 1394
Winter term 1393/1394
...
The problem is that there is no official Hebrew Calendar type available to download.
Looking at the Persian calendar type's code, it shouldn't take more than a few hours to write a Hebrew one. So that’s what you probably try to figure out, if you can write your own Hebrew Calendar or if there maybe is somewhere already one, that hasn’t been published yet.
I hope that we could help you or at least give you a direction.
Cheers Kasia
Any update to Moodle 3.4?
Ricardo
yeah there will be an update soon.
Cheers Kasia
Sorry for the delay, the update for Moodle 3.5 will be faster.
Example: By default a course starting date of June 1, 2018 currently is placed into the Winter term 2018/2019. However could that June 1, 2018 date be something adjusted through a settings change for the plugin. So a course starting date of May 1, 2018 be placed in the Winter term 2018/2019 not the previous term.
Thank you
For further information on how to use moodle core features check the course overview functionality and the filter options.
Thank you for your support of this block!