Blocks: Filtered course list
The Filtered Course List block displays a configurable list of courses. It is intended as a replacement for the My Courses block, although both may be used. It is maintained by the Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP).
An administrator can apply various filters by which to organize a user's course listing in the block. Courses can be sorted by category, shortname matches or completion status. If all of the courses in a given semester have a shortname ending in a semester code, for instance, then the administrator can designate those courses to appear under "Current courses," "Future courses" or any other heading. Regex matching is supported.
Administrators can designate multiple collapsible headings and choose which of those headings, if any, should be expanded by default.
Other options include the ability to hide the block from guests or anonymous visitors, to choose whether an admin sees all courses or her own, and to hide or reveal a link to a more comprehensive course search.
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That is not currently a feature of this plugin, though it's an intersting idea. Are you imagining this as an admin setting? A user setting?
I second Helder's suggestion for the ability to filter by course completion. It is a feature much in demand by trainers who have users complete courses but keep them enrolled in them afterwards so they have future access to the content. It is very common.
I see this as a filter just like the "Current" Future" and "Other" branch in the menu in the screenshot: there would be one called "Completed courses" and any courses that for this user that are still 1) available 2) enrolled in, and 3) have course completion marked, then they would automatically go there instead of in "Current".
Customizations by the user such as drag-n-drop ordering or sorting (like in the Dashboard now) would be nice, but not vital.
- Randy
This solves so much problems!
The plugin is amazing! But I have one question, on my moodle I have subcategories, so my structure is like:
Category1
-Subcategory1
--Course1
on the block configuration I'm using as configuration filter the sentence "category | collapsed | 0 | 0". On the block is just showing:
Subcategory1
-Course1
It's very important to me to show the category above the -Subcategory1. Is it possible to do that?
Thank you.
I'm glad you like the plugin, and I'm therefore all the sorrier that you will probably be disappointed by this answer. But maybe not? Here's how it works:
The plugin will descend through a hierarchy of categories, if you wish, and display each category in which the current user has courses, but it does not display the categories as a hierarchical structure. The reason you are not seeing Category1 is very likely that the user you are testing with is not enrolled in any courses immediately in that category. If you enroll that user in a course in Category1 then it should show up, but Category1 and Subcategory1 would look more like siblings than like a parent and child.
So...
Category1
-Course1
-Subcategory1
--Course2
Would display in the block as:
Category1
-Course1
Subcategory1
-Course2
For good or ill the reasons for this are deeply rooted in the way the plugin works.
On the other hand, I can perhaps offer you this workaround: You could make a block for each top-level category that you need and then configure the block titles as the name of the category. Let's say we have this larger structure (with category id's because we'll need them):
Category1 (1)
-Subcategory1 (2)
--Course1
Category2 (3)
-Subcategory2 (4)
--Course2
Then you could configure a block called "Category 1" like this:
category | collapsed | 1 | 0
And a block called "Category2" like this:
category | collapsed | 3 | 0
Clearly it's less good to require multiple blocks, and hard to maintain if your categories are frequently changing, but maybe it will help.