Sharing Cart

Blocks ::: block_sharing_cart
Maintained by Don Hinkelman, Tue Korsgaard, Alexander Bias
The Sharing Cart is a block that enables sharing of Moodle content (resources, activities) between multiple courses on your site.
Latest release:
5801 sites
1k downloads
215 fans
Current versions available: 7

After a tremendous effort, Sharing Cart 5.2 is now released. No words can express how thankful, we, the Moodle Community, is for many hours of dedicated work by Frederik Pytlick, Ulrik McAdle and Tue Korsgaard of moxis for reprogramming the difficult transition to Moodle 5.x. Moodle's architecture has undergone many changes and we appreciate all the testing, issue-reporting, and patience by you, the educators and users of the Sharing Cart. You will undoubtedly find more issues in this new release, so continue to report here: https://github.com/donhinkelman/moodle-block_sharing_cart/issues . Later, to hasten development, we may decide to move the sharing cart repository to:  praxisdigital/moodle-block_sharing_cart. Stay tuned for more information.

Sharing cart allows the teacher to copy sections and individual activities into a clipboard (the 'sharing cart'), so the teacher can easily move activities from one course to another without having to go into the "Reuse course" function. 

Another common use case for the sharing is to created shared teachers course which a teacher can easily copy her best activities into and and other teaches can reuse those in his own courses. In addition, items can be collected and saved on the Sharing Cart indefinitely, serving as a library of frequently used course items available for duplication. 

The sharing cart is currently maintained by the premium Moodle partner, "moxis". If you have any specific feature request, feel free to reach out on: support@moxis.dk, write an issue on GitHub and/or submit a PR. Please bear in mind this a community-driven plugin with limited resources.

Sharing Cart was designed in 2008 by teachers in Japan eager to collaborate and share their teaching activities. Later, Sharing Cart 3.0 was submitted to Remote Learner for independent vetting and passed in May 2016. In versions 3.x, a new interface programmed by moxis was added, in addition to the 'Section Copy' feature and Postgres compatibility (co-funded by Ulm University, Germany and Sapporo Gakuin University, Japan with programming by Ponlawat Weerapanpisit. Thanks especially to the programming team of moxis, who have vastly improved the plugin and continuously supported it over the past five years.
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Contributors

Don Hinkelman (Lead maintainer): Co-creator and Maintainer
Tue Korsgaard: Lead Maintainer
Alexander Bias: Funder and Mentor
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  • Dr. Nellie Deutsch
    Wed, 11 Mar 2026, 11:46 PM
    I appreciate all the work that has gone to the plugin over the years. Is 5.1 in the making? Sadly, I had to uninstall the Moodle 5.0 version because it caused a mess with the tasks.
  • Susan Hadjiyanis
    Thu, 12 Mar 2026, 3:23 AM
    I would be very sad and set back in course development tremendously if the sharing cart does not work in the new version. Please, please, please, Moodle peeps, make it work!
  • Dr. Nellie Deutsch
    Fri, 20 Mar 2026, 8:59 PM
    I am lost without the sharing cart in Moodle 5.1. My work is so much harder with having to copy and paste things from one course to another. I hope there will be an update to Moodle 5.1 very soon.
  • Wazza
    Fri, 20 Mar 2026, 11:47 PM
    @Dr. Nellie Deutsch, we are also without Sharing cart for the time being. But use backup and restore, which is the same, or use the import function. I know it takes more clicks but it is doable.
  • Dr. Nellie Deutsch
    Sat, 21 Mar 2026, 12:34 AM
    @ Richard van Iwaarden thank you. I just copied and pasted the source code. I don't need the whole course, just certain activities. I got so used to the sharing cart over the years that all the extra steps seem a bit much.
  • Wazza
    Sat, 21 Mar 2026, 2:09 AM
    Nellie, you do know that you can backup, restore and import single activities right? No need for an entire course.
  • Elias Sfeir
    Fri, 1 May 2026, 3:44 PM
    Hello,
    May I know when the plugin is expected to be updated for compatibility with version 5.2?
  • Dr. Nellie Deutsch
    Fri, 1 May 2026, 4:16 PM
    @Richard thank you for the suggestion, but it's not the same. Backing up the activities and restoring them is time consuming from one course to another. It's much easier to copy the source code and paste it in the new activities. All the required student activities are in the forums.
  • Ulrik McArdle
    Fri, 12 June 2026, 8:24 PM
    Hi all,

    Ulrik from Moxis here. We are currently working on a release for Moodle 5.2.

    For those who are asking about 4.5 and 5.1, the 5.0 release now works with these two releases too and also supports Moodle's new subsections.

    Moodle 5.2 support is coming soon.
  • Ulrik McArdle
    Fri, 12 June 2026, 8:39 PM
    Please note, that you who are using the source control link, that the Github repository is now changed to point directly to Moxis, which is structured a little different. We use branches for Moodle, so if you see a branch called MOODLE_42_STABLE and that is the lastest one, it will support Moodles from 4.2 until something breaks. We have already made a new branch called 5.2 (stable) and it works on 5.2, but we are still handling code review and some additional design changes requested on Github. We will release the zip version as soon as possible.
  • Dr. Nellie Deutsch
    Sat, 13 June 2026, 1:19 AM
    Hi Ulrik, I am sooooo happy that Moodle 5.2 is coming. Thank you!!!
  • Frederik Pytlick
    Mon, 15 June 2026, 4:12 PM
    Sharing Cart 5.2, release 1 is out! smile
  • Dr. Nellie Deutsch
    Mon, 15 June 2026, 9:06 PM
    Thank you, thank you, and many more thank you's. You are a lifesaver, Frederik.
  • Don Hinkelman
    Thu, 18 June 2026, 10:30 AM
    I am delighted with the work of Frederik, Urlik and Tue of moxis. They are heroes to the Moodle open source community. We look forward to many years of collaboration in the future. With this new release, please continue to post bugs here or in GitHub at: https://github.com/donhinkelman/moodle-block_sharing_cart/issues
  • Dr. Nellie Deutsch
    Fri, 19 June 2026, 6:09 PM
    Thank you for your ongoing support and work to make Moodle easy to use for educators, Don.
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