Featured tool is a Moodle block plugin that allows admins to easily display information/announcements to teachers.
The featured tool can be configured to cycle between multiple sets of information. Admins can enter a subtitle, thumbnail, and the content to display to the users when they click on a button. There are currently three tools to hold this information, and the featured tool will decide which to show randomly any time the dashboard is loaded. This information in the featured tool is configured only to show to users with a teacher role on the site.
- Log in to your Moodle site as an admin and go to Site administration > Plugins > Install plugins.
- Upload the ZIP file with the plugin code. You should only be prompted to add extra details if your plugin type is not automatically detected.
- Check the plugin validation report and finish the installation.
The plugin can be also installed by putting the contents of this directory to
{your/moodle/dirroot}/blocks/featured_tool
Afterwards, log in to your Moodle site as an admin and go to Site administration > Notifications to complete the installation.
Alternatively, you can run
$ php admin/cli/upgrade.php
to complete the installation from the command line.
In order to set up the featured tool to show on any teacher's dashboard, you can set up the tool in the Default Dashboard and set it for all users (Site administration > Appearance > Default Dashboard page).
To add/edit featured tools in the block, enable Edit mode and Configure Featured tool block.
- Enter the tool subtitle, upload a thumbnail image, and enter content for up to 3 featured tools.
- Subtitles should be brief tool names, and thumbnails should be an attention-getting graphic legible at 0x0 in size.
- Content should be a short, attention-getting summary of the tool/its benefits. Links to detailed documentation can be included here.
- Subtitle and thumbnail will be displayed in the block with a Read more button link.
- Content will be displayed in a modal when the Read more button is clicked.
The configuration to make sure every user is seeing the same instance of the block is:
- Original block location: System
- Display on page types: Dashboard page
- Select pages: Any page matching the above
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