Sharing Cart

Blocks ::: block_sharing_cart

Maintained by

Don Hinkelman,

Tue Korsgaard

**Sharing Cart 4.4, release 3 is from 5 February 2024. Requires Moodle 4.2 and PHP 8.0** Download here or go to github: https://github.com/donhinkelman/moodle-block_sharing_cart/. Sorry for any confusion: Sharing 4.2 and Sharing Cart 4.3 were skipped here on the Plugins Database. And Sharing 4.4 was an overly ambitious name--it is actually for Moodle 4.3, and requires PHP 8.0. The Sharing Cart is a block that enables sharing of Moodle content (resources, activities) between multiple courses on your site.

Latest release: 3 months

5125 sites

1k downloads

190 fans

Current versions available: 6

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New version 4.5 is due soon (end of May 2024) which is a complete rework of the plugin. Sorry, but any bugs associated with current release will not be processed. We encourage you the retest the issue after the release of the new version and resubmit the issue.

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. Don Hinkelman from the Moodle Association of Japan is handling bug discussion, testing and user assistance in either in this forum or the github bug tracker. Please bear in mind this a community-driven plugin with limited resources.

Sharing Cart 3.0 was submitted to Remote Learner for independent vetting and passed May 2016. In versions 3.x, new interface programmed by moxis was added, in addition to 'Section Copy' feature and Postgres compatibility (co-funded by Ulm University, Germany and Sapporo Gakuin University, Japan). Thanks also to Ponlawat Weerapanpisit and other contributors for programming assistance.
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Mark McKay
Fri, 1 Jan 2016, 2:11 AM
Hi Don. Do you plan to "certify" this for 3.0 soon? -Mark
Don Hinkelman
Sat, 2 Jan 2016, 4:25 AM
Hi Mark, Thanks for checking. We usually do Sharing Cart upgrades and testing each year in September and March. So unless we get a report that our 2.9 version works in 3.0, you will have to wait a bit longer. Sorry about that. If someone tests it and reports the results to me, that will help. Regards, Don
Mark Davis
Tue, 23 Feb 2016, 3:38 AM
Hi Mark (McKay),

just an FYI I'd add (based on Don's response) that I have installed and done some preliminary testing with it and it installed without error and has worked without error so far.
- Mark
Mark Davis
Tue, 23 Feb 2016, 3:40 AM
Sorry, should have added that I did all of this testing on 3.0.2+ ...
Don Hinkelman
Mon, 14 Mar 2016, 3:01 PM
To all Sharing Cart users, thanks for your support of this block. Please give it a review and rating if you can. From today, for the next two weeks, we are doing our annual upgrade, and will fix any issues you have found. I do notice that when I put a photo into the Sharing Cart, it shows the whole photo rather than the file name. This can be a problem when moving many photos, so I will change this to show only the file name. Like Mark, I just tested it in 3.0.2+ and found no issues with the Clean and More themes. If you use a special theme, please test it and let me the results. Contact me by email: hinkel at sgu.ac.jp
Randy Wald
Thu, 21 Apr 2016, 5:11 AM
Hi Don, Thanks for all the hard work on this. Our campus Moodle administrators love the Sharing Cart. Any updates to share on deploying a Moodle 3 version?
Randy Wald
Fri, 22 Apr 2016, 5:17 AM
Once released, we will pay to have the block vetted by Remote Learner as part of the Poet group. http://poetgroup.org/
Don Hinkelman
Tue, 10 May 2016, 11:54 AM
Thanks, very much, Randy. I am trying to get the new 3.0 version into the Plugins Database this week (actually, the 2.9 version works in 3.0, but we have fixed some minor bugs now). It would be wonderful to get it vetted by Remote Learner. And if there are any questions about it or changes needed, I will fix what they suggest.
Cheers, Don
Emilie Lenel
Wed, 11 May 2016, 8:19 PM
Hello Don, i was about to ask whether this great plugin will be available for 3.0, i see that it's coming soon, good news !! as we plan to upgrade our moodle very soon to moodle 3.0. Do you think that it will work for Moodle 3.1 as well ? Cheers, Emilie
Randy Wald
Tue, 24 May 2016, 5:23 AM
Don, Sharing cart for Moodle 3.0 is successfully vetted through Remote Learner. Thanks for keeping this great plugin updated!
-Randy
Philip Daoud
Thu, 26 May 2016, 2:35 AM
Thanks for a great plugin.

Are there any plans to add the possibility to add an entire folder or allow multiple selection of items from the cart to be added to the course? This would be a nice feature especially if you have several resources or activities.

Philip
Don Hinkelman
Tue, 14 June 2016, 7:20 AM
Hi Randy, thanks for the news that Remote Learner vetting has passed. Also, I submitted the new version to this plugins database but it does not show. I have never submitted before, so I must be doing something wrong. To Emilie, we hope to update the Sharing Cart to 3.1 in September when our school upgrades its main site to 3.1. It would be helpful if someone reports if SC3.0 works already in Moodle 3.1. And to Philip, those are great ideas. You are the first one to propose them. I will ask if the next version of SC can include those features. By the way, do you use the current SC feature where you can select the user data included/excluded? This is handy for Glossaries, Forums, Wikis, or other activities where you want to keep the content.
bruce chagas de moura
Wed, 14 Sept 2016, 9:33 PM
Olá
Haverá atualização desse plugin para o moodle 3.1?
Clay Burell
Wed, 28 Sept 2016, 11:13 AM
Just tried to install on 3.1.2, and got this: [Error] Write access check [/var/www/html/blocks] , fyi, so it didn't install. Can't wait for update!
Terry Shapiro
Fri, 30 Sept 2016, 12:36 AM
hi there
if you update the parent object, will all the "carted off" versions update automatically?