Semester overview

Blocks ::: block_semester_sortierung
Maintained by AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
In the semsort block (blocks/semester_sortierung), courses are grouped by their starting dates in a semester view on the MyMoodle page.
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This plugin is deprecated 

With the latest development and improvements of moodle core functionality, this block should be considered as deprecated and will be no longer maintained.

WARNING: This plugin is deprecated. The last maintained version of the Plugin will be for Moodle 3.9. After 3.9 we won’t maintain the plugin any further. 

The reason behind that is that now you can achieve similar functionality using the core Course Overview Block and its new filtering capabilities.  

For further information on how to use moodle core features check the course overview functionality and the filter options. 

If you are eager to keep this block alive you are welcome to adopt it: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Plugins_adoption_programme

Please get in touch with us, if you want to take it over and maintain it from Moodle 3.9 onwards. 


Semsort module

In the Semsort block (blocks/semester_sortierung), courses are grouped by their starting dates in a semester view on the MyMoodle page.

The Semsort block also displays all MyMoodle information regarding the course activities of the individual courses. 

The module will also feature a "My favourites" area, for which courses from different semesters can be selected and they will then be listed at the top of the favourites area.

Example

Use the Semsort module to display the winter and summer semesters with all your courses, and the favourites area for quick access.

Installation

Copy the module code directly to the "blocks/semester_sortierung" directory. Open the messages page in the administration are to automatically start the installation. 

Admin settings

As an administrator you can set the default values instance-wide on the settings page for administrators in the Semsort block:

  • Sort courses by semesters (checkbox)
  • Winter semester months (checkbox)
  • Show favourites (checkbox)

Screenshots

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Contributors

AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation (Lead maintainer)
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  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Fri, 1 Sep 2017, 4:10 PM
    Hey Meir,
    I have news from our developer, Simeon Naydenov, who is responsible for this plugin.

    This is the line which deals with the year:
    $year = userdate($timestamp, '%Y');

    What you are missing is a Hebrew Calendar type.
    You can download different calendar types from here - https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=category&id=51
    Our developer tested with a Persian calendar and the semsort block works as it should:
    Summer term 1396
    Winter term 1394/1395
    Summer term 1394
    Winter term 1393/1394
    ...

    The problem is that there is no official Hebrew Calendar type available to download.
    Looking at the Persian calendar type's code, it shouldn't take more than a few hours to write a Hebrew one. So that’s what you probably try to figure out, if you can write your own Hebrew Calendar or if there maybe is somewhere already one, that hasn’t been published yet.

    I hope that we could help you or at least give you a direction.

    Cheers Kasia
  • Ricardo Caiado
    Sat, 17 Mar 2018, 10:47 PM
    Hi,

    Any update to Moodle 3.4?

    Ricardo
  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Thu, 22 Mar 2018, 10:25 PM
    Hi,

    yeah there will be an update soon.

    Cheers Kasia
  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Mon, 7 May 2018, 8:50 PM
    We just published version 3.4.0 of the plugin for Moodle 3.4.
    Sorry for the delay, the update for Moodle 3.5 will be faster.
  • Mark Terranova
    Tue, 19 Jun 2018, 6:30 AM
    Would it be possible to have a setting in the plugin's configuration to set the month that it looks at for the year term?
    Example: By default a course starting date of June 1, 2018 currently is placed into the Winter term 2018/2019. However could that June 1, 2018 date be something adjusted through a settings change for the plugin. So a course starting date of May 1, 2018 be placed in the Winter term 2018/2019 not the previous term.
  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Mon, 20 Aug 2018, 5:32 PM
    We just published version 3.5.0 of the block Semester Sortierung for Moodle 3.5.
  • Mohamed H
    Sun, 16 Sep 2018, 7:17 AM
    Hi, I am a moodle beginner and I appreciate you for this wonderful plugin. I got a question, as we know there are sometimes three semesters used by universities, like Fall, Spring and Summer and we now have just two of them in the configuration, so is there a possibility of that or may be in the future?
    Thank you
  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Thu, 8 Nov 2018, 2:07 AM
    Hi, no there is no such plan for doing this for 3 semesters. Sorry.
  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Wed, 23 Jan 2019, 1:24 PM
    We just published version 3.6.0 of the block Semester Sortierung for Moodle 3.6 – have fun.
  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Sat, 18 May 2019, 9:41 PM
    We just published bug fix version 3.6.1 of the block Semester Sortierung for Moodle 3.6 (see CHANGELOG.txt)
  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Wed, 5 Jun 2019, 3:19 AM
    We just published version 3.7.0 of the block Semester Sortierung for Moodle 3.7 – have fun
  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Sun, 17 Nov 2019, 10:55 PM
    We just published version 3.7.1 of the block Semester Sortierung for Moodle 3.7 (Support filter in course fullname and summary).
  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Mon, 18 Nov 2019, 6:39 PM
    We just published version 3.8.0 of the block Semester Sortierung for Moodle 3.8 – have fun.
  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Wed, 24 Jun 2020, 7:06 PM
    We just published version 3.9.0 of the block Semester Sortierung for Moodle 3.9 – have fun.
  • AMC Academic Moodle Cooperation
    Wed, 22 Jul 2020, 10:37 PM
    Due to the possibility to recreate almost identical experience for your users with the moodle core “course overview block” and its filter options, we will no longer be maintaining the SemesterSort block.

    For further information on how to use moodle core features check the course overview functionality and the filter options.

    Thank you for your support of this block!
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