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Page Tracker Block

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this block is also known as "Learning Stations Block".

The Page Tracker Block is a utility block that allows exposing simple navigation menus in a Page Course Format

You can alternatively also use the Pagemenu Module as a module to build such navigation principles.

The page tracker block as some additionnal feature as a visual visit tracking indicators. Those indicators tell the user about unvisited pages.

One single instance of a page tracker can only expose one node siblings, developping a configurable amount of sublevels.

Requirements

This block needs the Page Course Format to be installed.

Installation

Deploy the Page Tracker archive into the "blocks" directory of Moodle Run the Administration -> Notification to finish install.

Settings

The Page Tracker Block has several settings that help to obtain a flexible menu depending on page construction and requirements.

Global settings

No global settings.

Instance settings

  • Title: the visible block title. Will default to "Learning Stations"
  • Allow links: this will let choose when (and which) pages appear as links
    • None: No links
    • Visited pages: will provide links on pages the user has some log traces in
    • All pages: will always provide links
  • Hide disabled links: this will completely hide pages the user has not yet visited.
  • start page: defines the starting page. all subnodes of this page will be displayed
  • Depth: the page_tracker will scan the start page subpages until this depth (relative to start page) is reached

Sensibility to page visibiliy status

The page tracker is fully aware of how the Page Course Format resolves the page visibiity for users.

Capabilities

This block has tje single standard capability block/page_tracker:addinstance.