Course overview (legacy)

Blocks ::: block_course_overview
Maintained by Howard Miller
The Course overview block is visible on a user's Dashboard and shows a list of all courses in which a user is enrolled/has an assigned role.

Course overview (legacy) 3.5.5

Moodle 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
Released: Thursday, 14 February 2019, 6:36 PM

3.5.5

Pagination added

3.5.4

  • Missing language strings in settings page

3.5.3

  • New instances load in the 'content' area of the Dashboard automagically.
  • New option to select default tab
  • Performance improvements. User's course list is only loaded once for both tabs.

3.3.6

  • Now displays hidden courses (to Teachers et al) as 'dimmed'
  • Layout a bit better on legacy Bootstrap 2 themes (e.g. Clean).

3.3.5

  • Some support for bootstrapbase themes added
  • favourites shown with correct 'star' in course list

3.3.4

  • Layout of courses improved using Bootstrap grids
  • Option to keep favourites in 'normal' course list added to block settings
  • Option to have a fixed sort order for courses tab
  • Code tidied up somewhat

3.3.3

  • All javascript changed from YUI to jquery amd modules
  • Rendering now using mustache templates
  • Course overviews displayed by clicking icon
  • Favourites tab added
  • Limit on courses displayed and child course display dropped.
  • print_overview() still in use (for now)

3.3.1

  • Debugging messages raised by using deprecated print_overview() are not displayed now (the better fix would be to actually remove these calls, but it has to wait for the new maintainer).

3.3.0

  • Initial release of this block as a standalone plugin after being removed from Moodle core.

Version information

Version build number
2019021300
Version release name
3.5.5
Maturity
Stable version
MD5 Sum
be80d21b40380f98e5320ee8831df045
Supported software
Moodle 3.4, Moodle 3.5, Moodle 3.6
  • Latest release for Moodle 3.4

Version control information

Version control system (VCS)
GIT
VCS repository URL
VCS tag
3.5.5

Default installation instructions for plugins of the type Blocks

  1. Make sure you have all the required versions.
  2. Download and unpack the block folder.
  3. Place the folder (eg "myblock") in the "blocks" subdirectory.
  4. Visit http://yoursite.com/admin to complete the installation
  5. Turn editing on in any home or course page.
  6. Add the block to the page
  7. Visit the config link in the block for more options.