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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development and improvements of moodle core functionality, this block should be considered as deprecated and will be no longer maintained.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
In your settings.php, you set the plugin property to 'blocks/semester_sortierung'. This is unexpected value. There should be the full component name (also known as frankenstyle) of your plugin, that is 'block_semester_sortierung'. The alternative approach is to name the setting fields as 'block_semester_sortierung/sortcourses' in which case the method admin_setting::parse_setting_name() would set the plugin automatically (which is probably cleaner that setting it directly like you do).
If there are some versions of this block already used in production, you will want to provide an upgrade step that would fix the current setting names.
Once this is fixed, this can be approved. Please don't forget to schedule this plugin for re-approval after uploading a new version. For now, I am going to mark this plugin as needing more work until we get this issue resolved. Thanks for your patience with the review and approval process.
It would be great if you could review our block and give us feedback
Thanks a lot.
Cheers Kasia
- Katarzyna Potocka -
Hi Kasia. Nice to hear from you again. I rechecked the block and I think it is good to go now. I reported one tiny issue (probably related to some CSS issue) to your tracker. I am going to approve the plugin now, you are cleared to land. Welcome to the Plugins directory!
Meir
what do you mean by login page? The semsort block shows all the courses a user is enrolled to. So it basically makes only sense, when the user is already logged in.
Cheers Katarzyna
meir