Community finder block
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The Community block enables users to search for courses to download or enrol in on a community hub and lists courses which the user is enrolled in.
Finding courses to to enrol in
- In the Community block click Search
- Select a hub, such as Mooch, the moodle.org hub
- Select 'Courses I can enrol in' and then click the Search button
- For any courses of interest, click 'Visit site' and/or 'Save a link to this course'
Some definitions
- This hub is trusted by Moodle.org: this is a label given by Moodle.org. It recognizes the hub as a safe hub. However Moodle.org didn't check every course on this hub for virus, copyright... As anywhere else, you should remain cautious about anything you download on internet.
- Registered on this hub: your Moodle site is registered on this hub. It means that your Moodle administrator registered to this hub in order to receive email alert or to let teacher publish courses.
Capabilities
As Moodle administrator you need to assign the following capabilities:
- moodle/community:add - allows a user to use the Community block to search for courses on a hub
- moodle/community:download - allows a user to use the Community block to download courses from a hub
