Navbar Help Menu for Moodle

A plugin that adds a configurable help menu to Moodle's navigation bar.

Requirements

This plugin requires Moodle 4.3+

Installation

• Download/extract or clone https://github.com/ucsf-education/moodle-local_navbarhelpmenu to the /local directory in your Moodle installation.
• Rename the local_navbarhelpmenu directory to navbarhelpmenu.

Usage & Settings

After installing the plugin, it does not do anything to Moodle yet.

To configure the plugin and its behaviour, please visit: Site administration -> Appearance -> Navbar Helpmenu.

There, you find one setting:

Menu items

With this setting, you can add items to help menu in the page header.

Each line consists of a link, a title, and a new window setting (optional) - separated by pipe characters. Each menu item needs to be written in a new line.

For example:

https://moodle.org|Moodle|true
/user/contactsitesupport.php|Site Support

Further information on the parameters:

• Link: The link target of the men item. It can be defined by a full web URL (e.g. https://moodle.org) or a relative path within your Moodle instance (e.g. /user/contactsitesupport.php).
• Title: This menu item title.
• New window (optional): By default, the link will be opened in the same window and the value of this setting is set to false. If you want to open the link in a new window set the value to true.

Capabilities

This plugin does not add any additional capabilities.

Theme support

This plugin is developed and tested on Moodle Core's Boost theme as well as UCSF's custom theme.

Plugin repositories

The latest version can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/ucsf-education/moodle-local_navbarhelpmenu

Bug and problem reports / Support requests

Please report bugs and problems on GitHub: https://github.com/ucsf-education/moodle-local_navbarhelpmenu/issues

Feature proposals

Please issue feature proposals on GitHub: https://github.com/ucsf-education/moodle-local_navbarhelpmenu/issues

Please create pull requests on GitHub: https://github.com/ucsf-education/moodle-local_navbarhelpmenu/pulls

Maintainers

The plugin is maintained by the Education IT department at UCSF.

Copyright and License

This is Open Source Software, published under the GPL v3.

Copyright (c) The Regents of the University of California.