Community finder block

The community finder block enables users to access public community hubs, such as Moodle.net, and search for courses to download or enrol in.

• Downloadable courses may be immediately restored to your Moodle site
• Links to enrollable courses are saved in the community finder block

Downloading courses from a hub

1. In the community finder block click Search
2. Select a hub, such as Moodle.net
3. Select 'Courses I can download' and then click the Search button
4. For any courses of interest, click 'Visit demo' then if you're happy with the course, click 'Download'
5. The course backup will then be downloaded and saved in your private files. Click Yes to immediately restore the course

Search for community course

Finding courses to to enrol in

1. In the community finder block click Search
2. Select a hub, such as Moodle.net
3. Select 'Courses I can enrol in' and then click the Search button
4. For any courses of interest, click 'Visit site' then if you're happy with the course, click 'Save a link to this course'

The link to the course will then be displayed in the community finder block.

If you wish to remove any saved links, click the X icon after the link.

Capabilities

By default, users with the role of manager or teacher can use the community finder block.

The following capabilities control access to the block:

• 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

See also

• Community hub
• Restoring file aliases for details of what happens when restoring a course which has been downloaded from a hub and which contains file aliases