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:
5125 sites
1k downloads
190 fans
Current versions available: 6
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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Don Hinkelman (Lead maintainer)
Tue Korsgaard: Maintainer
VERSION2 INC: Original Programming Team
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  • Blair F.
    Sat, 28 Sept 2019, 12:31 AM
    I just noticed that the SC menu option is missing from all of my *sections* containing any resources and activities and instead appears at the bottom of the edit menu for the first resource or activity. In empty sections, it appears where expected - on the menu for the section. I'm using version 3.6, release 1 2019012000, in Moodle 3.6.6. I've also noticed that this issue occurs only with the Collapsed Topics format, so I will be posting the issue under that plugin. However, if I can, I'd like to include a clue for Gareth as to what might be the issue. Don, do you have any idea that I might be able to share with Gareth?
  • Don Hinkelman
    Sat, 28 Sept 2019, 3:12 PM
    Blair, thank you for reporting this issue. Could I ask you to post the issue in the github bug-reporting for SC here: https://github.com/donhinkelman/moodle-block_sharing_cart Then could I kindly ask any programmer who would have time to fix this, to post the fixed code as a pull request at the same location. I will merge that request right away. Much obliged!
  • Birgit Lachner
    Wed, 30 Oct 2019, 6:09 PM
    Hi,
    just to understand the use of this Plugin: is it possible to share the activities with collegues? Or is it just to move an activities von from course to another?
    Regards, Birgit
  • Acqua Alta
    Fri, 1 Nov 2019, 5:01 PM
    Hi Birgit,
    If the teacher has a role with an editing permission in your course course, he can copy the activity to his/her course, so in a way that's sharing the activity with other colleagues. The problem is of course that you have to share the entire course with them, and that's too much for some people.

    I'm not aware of a way to share a specific activity with everyone, besides a creating a new course that is dedicated entirely for sharing with colleagues. But I wouldn't be surprised if there's a plugin that does what you want it. If you'll find one, please share.
  • Osvaldo Canato
    Sun, 15 Dec 2019, 6:56 AM
    Hi Don,

    Just updated to moodle 3.8 and sharing cart is not working. More exactly, every time we turn edition on, all edition button freezes. Then, if we purge all caches and return to course, that's ok. But if in sequence we turn edition off and on again, the freezing problem returns.

    Hope you can fix this fantastic plugin!

    Best Regards,
    Osvaldo
  • Don Hinkelman
    Sun, 15 Dec 2019, 4:30 PM
    Hi Osvaldo, Thank you for testing the Sharing Cart in Moodle 3.8. I assume the Sharing Cart was working OK before in Moodle 3.7. Please go to github here: https://github.com/donhinkelman/moodle-block_sharing_cart/issues/31 to report this issue and explain the theme that you are using and any more details so that we may reproduce this issue.
  • Katja Neubehler
    Tue, 17 Dec 2019, 6:27 PM
    Dear Don Hinkelman,

    Thanks for this great plugin. We installed the master-version on our Moodle 3.5 installation and recognized some graphical issues: The shopping basked icon appears for course sections, but not for activities. Is there some incompability reguarding the versions (is there a Plugin Version for Moodle 3.5 available)?

    Another question concerns the capabilities used for this plugin: We'd appriciate the possibility to give users the capabilities to copy content of a foreign course into sharing cart and use it in their own courses (after the Trainer inserted the shring cart block in course). Therefore, the user needs the following capabilities - as far as we found out: moodle/backup:backupactivity, moodle/backup:configure and moodle/course:update. Could you provide some more information, where exactly and why these capabilities are used?
    We hope, you can help us with this concern?

    Best regards!
  • Acqua Alta
    Wed, 18 Dec 2019, 9:51 PM
    Hi Katja,
    Please note the following issue in the plugin repository:
    https://github.com/donhinkelman/moodle-block_sharing_cart/issues/27
    It doesn't answer your question directly, but you can find there info about more capabilities that are required for copying content with the plugin.
  • Alvaro Moodle Eurecat
    Tue, 21 Jan 2020, 12:40 AM
    Hello;

    When i try to copi a single antivity it works very well, but when i try to copy a setion a error text box appears saying:

    "A required parameter (sectionname) was missing"
  • Concrete Scanning and Cutting in Dubai
    Sun, 15 Mar 2020, 12:58 AM
    Dear Don Hinkelman,

    Thanks for this great plugin. We installed the master-version on our Moodle 3.5 installation and recognized some graphical issues: The shopping basked icon appears for course sections, but not for activities. Is there some incompability reguarding the versions (is there a Plugin Version for Moodle 3.5 available)?
    Dear Don Hinkelman,

    Thanks for this great plugin. We installed the master-version on our Moodle 3.5 installation and recognized some graphical issues: The shopping basked icon appears for course sections, but not for activities. Is there some incompability reguarding the versions (is there a Plugin Version for Moodle 3.5 available)?
  • Don Hinkelman
    Sun, 15 Mar 2020, 9:33 AM
    Thank you for reporting an issue, which I assume just happened when you installed the new Sharing Cart 3.8, which was released a few hours ago. There are recent changes in Moodle, so that Sharing Cart 3.8 probably works best in Moodle 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8, as noted by the download button. Since your Moodle is 3.5, I wonder if it is possible to return your earlier version of the Sharing Cart? If not, I would suggest you report this as an issue on github. All development and issue reporting happens there. Here is the link to the github location for Sharing Cart: https://github.com/donhinkelman/moodle-block_sharing_cart Click on the menu item, "Issues", then click on the green button, "New Issue", and post as many details as possible, such as: 1) your version of Moodle, 2) your version of Sharing Cart, 3) your theme (its version number), 4) your browser (its version number) and 5) what you expected to happen, and 6) what happened that you didn't expect (with screen shot). If you get an error message, take a screen shot of that, and post it too. It may seem troublesome to make another account outside of Moodle, but most plugins are doing development this way, and it really helps get attention to your problem. Thanks! smile
  • Don Hinkelman
    Wed, 18 Mar 2020, 9:22 AM
    **New: Report received 17 March 2020 that the Sharing Cart 3.8, release 1 has a bug in the drop down menu--"Copy to Sharing Cart" does not appear. Please wait for Sharing Cart 3.8, release 2 to fix this bug.**
  • Don Hinkelman
    Sun, 12 Apr 2020, 9:36 AM
    Sharing Cart 3.8, release 3 fixes a bug in the section copy feature, where some items are skipped or copied twice.
  • Moises Alberto Zylbersztajn
    Tue, 21 Apr 2020, 12:38 AM
    Friends, We have this message anytime we try to copy the activity already in sharing cart. it copies from the original place, but when to place it the new point it gives us this - Exception - Call to a member function get_tasks on nul ()
  • marc helfano
    Thu, 14 May 2020, 11:23 PM
    hi everyone! this plugin is perfect for what im attempting, but i cannot seem to get it to work properly.
    -installed, added the block to 2 courses
    -went into course B and copied entire topic to the 'sharing cart', i see it there in the sharing cart
    -goto course A, and in the sharing cart, next to the unit/topic i copied i click on 'copy to course', i see the [arrow] box pop up as to where to copy to, i click the arrow in the new topic i created, it does it, but then there is nothing there when done a few seconds later?
    when i click on the unit in the sharing cart, i see all the items beloew, and i tied copying one of those items and it worked, it was in the new topic, but when i tried to just do the copy to course the entire topic , it didnt work
    thanks for the assistance.
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