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: 2 months

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1k downloads

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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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Emil Due-Christensen
Wed, 31 Jan 2018, 6:32 PM
First of all: Thanks for a great and highly useful plugin we surely appreciate it.
We have some problems when we try to copy H5P-activities to the sharing cart that it takes several minutes, often more than 5 minutes, for it to complete the copying. This is also an issue after the upgrade per January 10th. We use Moodle 3.3 with the Boost theme.
Do you have suggestions to why that is?
Thanks!
Don Hinkelman
Thu, 1 Feb 2018, 8:05 AM
Yes, Emil. This is most likely related to a long-standing issue with the Moodle core Question Bank. The whole question bank is copied whenever you include a quiz in a Moodle backup or in the Sharing Cart, which uses the core Moodle copy/import/backup system. Your workaround is to either tolerate the 5 minute wait, or make your Question Bank smaller by: a) not keeping the questions in System or high level categories, and b) only keeping the questions you need at the Course Level category. If this problem is new to you, it may be too difficult to manage, because you will have to read a lot about the Question Bank in the Moodle Docs. I also recommend you vote for these three issues: (if you vote, Moodle HQ might be encouraged to fix this problem).
- MDL-12403: Minimize questions in Question Bank-original “Backup/Import of single quiz includes all questions in database” Bug—critical
- MDL-41924: Minimize questions in Question Bank-new
- MDL-19721: Put Sharing Cart into core.
Michael Gerszewski
Thu, 15 Feb 2018, 11:36 PM
I'm wondering what the timeline is on updating the Github source to the latest version? It looks like it is still at version 3.2 release 1, and we use Git as a source for all of our plugins when upgrading our multi-node cluster. Thanks for all of your work on this plugin!
Michelle Melton
Mon, 12 Mar 2018, 10:08 PM
Same comment as Michael Gerszewski about GitHub. Thanks!
Jay Nayagan
Sat, 14 Apr 2018, 11:51 PM
Which version can I use with Moodle 3.1?
Roman Galperin
Sat, 28 Apr 2018, 11:19 PM
Hi Don, if I understand correctly the latest version has the capability of copying a whole section into the cart at once , correct ?
If so, I'm super excited about this development - been waiting for it!
But, I'm using Moodle 3.1 and made quite a lot of customization to it, so it's not possible for me upgrade. Is there a way to upgrade sharing cart still? Or at least get the 'copy section' functionality into Moodle 3.1 ? It would be amazing!
Thanks!
Roman.
Xavi Montana
Thu, 31 May 2018, 7:41 PM
Some plan to update this add-on to Moodle 3.5?, it's very useful!
Don Hinkelman
Thu, 31 May 2018, 10:29 PM
My apologies for no github update--only updated here on the plugins database. I need to learn github and take over that responsibility. Also, sorry that only with Moodle 3.3+ can you do section copy. Moodle has changed significantly and we don't have capacity to make older versions of Sharing Cart compatible. As for Moodle 3.5, our next upgrade time is September. Thank you for your enthusiastic support and we welcome code fixes that you send.
Barry Matthias
Thu, 19 Jul 2018, 6:43 PM
Morning All

Can anyone explain why the sharing cart continually executes its rest.php code when using the snap theme as this is causing the end user experience too cause the course page load times to be excessive.

Only happens when viewing a course with the sharing cart block present in snap i would like to know what the rest.php is actually doing?

regards
BM
Don Hinkelman
Fri, 20 Jul 2018, 11:59 AM
Hi Barry, I just a reply about how to investigate this problem. Could you send a message to me offline: hinkelman@mac.com
Michael Zwahlen
Tue, 11 Sep 2018, 11:26 PM
Hi
Thanks a lot for the important ShartingCart-Plugin.
Untill now I used this function just by myself. What if I like to share some of my activities to my TeacherTeamMembers? How can I do this as easy as just for myself?
Don Hinkelman
Tue, 11 Sep 2018, 11:39 PM
Hi Michael. Yes, it's easy to share your activities with your fellow teachers. That is the purpose of the Sharing Cart. Just enroll your colleagues as Managers or Teachers in your course. As long as they can enter your course, they can turn on the Sharing Cart and put activities or resources into their Sharing Cart.
Michael Zwahlen
Tue, 11 Sep 2018, 11:51 PM
Don Hinkelman
Thanks for your fast answer!
Right now i only added one Teacher to each course. If I like to keep it like this, would it work if we set up a master-course (with no students) where we add all relevant activities. To this Master-Course we enrole all the teachers. They can surf to this extra course and copy the activites to their Sharingcart.
Can you offer a more effiecient ways to go?
Don Hinkelman
Wed, 12 Sep 2018, 12:01 AM
Yes, we have several Master courses which server as hubs or repositories of activities. Also, we trust our teachers a lot, and give them system-wide roles as Manager or Course Creator.
Richard van Iwaarden
Fri, 21 Sep 2018, 5:01 PM
I love the Sharing Cart! However, I have noticed that in some custom course formats there's no option to add entire sections to the sharing cart. Question: how is this option added to the normal 'topics' format? Perhaps I can adjust my custom course formats to work well with the sharing cart.