Moodle plugins directory: Recommender

Blocks: Recommender

block_recommender

Maintained by

Jenny Gray

This block offers three different recommendation services: popular activities on this course; popular courses on this site; and shared bookmarks. Each can be enabled and configured separately.

Release 2.4

Moodle 2.4

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This plugin is part of set Open University.

This block offers three different recommendation services: popular activities on this course; popular courses on this site; shared bookmarks. Each can be enabled and configured separately.

Each service displays the top 3 links in the block and a "more" link to an additional page with further recommendations.

Popular activities service lists the 10 most viewed/updated resources and activities within the current course.

Popular courses service lists the top 3 other courses which the current course students are also enrolled upon

Shared bookmarks allows teachers to add any url to the block to make their own recommendations.

The block can be extended by developing your own services.

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Jenny Gray (Lead maintainer)

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Ruslan Kabalin
Wed, May 30, 2012, 11:14 PM
Very nice block!
Ivana Bosnic
Mon, Oct 22, 2012, 8:30 PM
Hi, I'd love to play a bit with this block. But, when I try to obtain OER recommendations, I get the following error: "Retrieving OER data failed: 301 Moved Permanently 301 Moved Permanently nginx". Any hints?
Jenny Gray
Mon, Oct 22, 2012, 10:45 PM
I need to remove the OER service. I just found out that the system it pulls recommendations from has closed
amit gupta
Wed, May 8, 2013, 7:32 PM
can we use this block for personalizing a user's search or recommending him/her about new courses based upon his/her enrolled courses?????
Jenny Gray
Wed, May 8, 2013, 8:44 PM
You could write new services to extend the block to do personalised search. I'm not sure what you mean by "new" courses - the existing courses service might do this for you, or you could do something similar.
Frankie Kam
Wed, Aug 14, 2013, 11:17 PM
What a brilliant block! I can't resist trying this one...!!! This is the work of a creative genius! Do not disturb. Genius at work. I wonder what else you have up that creative sleeve of yours. Thank you jenny Gray. I highly recommend other to use your Recommender Block.
Frankie Kam
Wed, Aug 14, 2013, 11:38 PM
Actually I just found out that the Block was created by Lancaster University Network Services Limited in 2011. Simply, bril.
Jenny Gray
Wed, Aug 14, 2013, 11:39 PM
Yes, that's correct - designed and maintained by the Open University, but originally built by LUNS.

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