This Text block provides the possibility to selectively display the block to members of specific cohorts.
This plugin requires Moodle 4.5+
In Moodle core, there is the Text block which allows you to add Text content to courses. The content of these block instances is shown to all users that are allowed to access the page it is placed on. However, in some scenarios, you need to restrict the visibility of the Text block to members of specific cohorts. This plugin adds this functionality to the Text block. This means that the instances of this block behave generally like any other Text block instance, only with the feature that the visibility of the block is restricted to defined cohorts.
Install the plugin like any other plugin to folder /blocks/cohortspecifichtml
See http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_plugins for details on installing Moodle plugins
After installing the plugin, it does not do anything to Moodle yet.
To configure the plugin and its behaviour, please visit: Site administration -> Plugins -> Blocks -> Text (on cohort)
This plugin has the following additional settings for block instances:
With this setting you can select the cohorts for which the block should be displayed. A prerequisite is of course that cohorts exist in your Moodle instance.
Example: If a user matches at least one of the selected cohorts the block will be displayed to him.
With this setting you can invert your selection. This means that the block will not be shown to members of the selected cohort but to everyone else.
Examples:
- If a user matches at least one of the selected cohorts the block will not be displayed to him, even if he is also member of a cohort that is not selected.
- If you have selected none of the cohorts and invert that, the block will be visible for all users.
This plugin also introduces these additional capabilities:
Text (on cohorts) blocks are always visible to the capability owners independently from any membership in defined cohorts. By default, this capability is not allocated to any standard roles. As an admin, you might want to add this capability to the teacher role to let teachers see all the Text (on cohort) block contents independently from the editing state of the course.
This plugin does not add any additional scheduled tasks.
This plugin is developed and tested on Moodle Core's Boost theme. It should also work with Boost child themes, including Moodle Core's Classic theme. However, we can't support any other theme than Boost.
This plugin is published and regularly updated in the Moodle plugins repository: http://moodle.org/plugins/view/block_cohortspecifichtml
The latest development version can be found on Github: https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-block_cohortspecifichtml
This plugin is carefully developed and thoroughly tested, but bugs and problems can always appear.
Please report bugs and problems on Github: https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-block_cohortspecifichtml/issues
We will do our best to solve your problems, but please note that due to limited resources we can't always provide per-case support.
Due to limited resources, the functionality of this plugin is primarily implemented for our own local needs and published as-is to the community. We are aware that members of the community will have other needs and would love to see them solved by this plugin.
Please issue feature proposals on Github: https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-block_cohortspecifichtml/issues
Please create pull requests on Github: https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-block_cohortspecifichtml/pulls
We are always interested to read about your feature proposals or even get a pull request from you, but please accept that we can handle your issues only as feature proposals and not as feature requests.
Due to limited resources, this plugin is only maintained for the most recent major release of Moodle as well as the most recent LTS release of Moodle. Bugfixes are backported to the LTS release. However, new features and improvements are not necessarily backported to the LTS release.
Apart from these maintained releases, previous versions of this plugin which work in legacy major releases of Moodle are still available as-is without any further updates in the Moodle Plugins repository.
There may be several weeks after a new major release of Moodle has been published until we can do a compatibility check and fix problems if necessary. If you encounter problems with a new major release of Moodle - or can confirm that this plugin still works with a new major release - please let us know on Github.
If you are running a legacy version of Moodle, but want or need to run the latest version of this plugin, you can get the latest version of the plugin, remove the line starting with $plugin->requires from version.php and use this latest plugin version then on your legacy Moodle. However, please note that you will run this setup completely at your own risk. We can't support this approach in any way and there is an undeniable risk for erratic behavior.
This Moodle plugin is shipped with an english language pack only. All translations into other languages must be managed through AMOS (https://lang.moodle.org) by what they will become part of Moodle's official language pack.
As the plugin creator, we manage the translation into german for our own local needs on AMOS. Please contribute your translation into all other languages in AMOS where they will be reviewed by the official language pack maintainers for Moodle.
This plugin has not been tested with Moodle's support for right-to-left (RTL) languages. If you want to use this plugin with a RTL language and it doesn't work as-is, you are free to send us a pull request on Github with modifications.
The plugin is maintained by
Moodle an Hochschulen e.V.
The copyright of this plugin is held by
Moodle an Hochschulen e.V.
Individual copyrights of individual developers are tracked in PHPDoc comments and Git commits.
This plugin was initially built, maintained and published by
Ulm University
Communication and Information Centre (kiz)
Kathrin Osswald
It was contributed to the Moodle an Hochschulen e.V. plugin catalogue in 2022.
