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The course overview block

The course overview block enables students to check their course progress and view upcoming deadlines. It allows teachers to easily see activities needing grading. To get started, watch the Course overview improvements screencast.

Note for sites upgrading from earlier versions: The course overview block in previous versions of Moodle has been removed and replaced with a new course overview. The legacy course overview block may be downloaded from the Plugins directory: Blocks: Course overview (legacy).

What enrolled users see

New feature
in Moodle 3.6!

The course overview is displayed on a student's dashboard and displays three dropdowns:
an option to sort by all, current, future, in progress, starred or hidden courses
an option to display courses by last accessed or by title
an option to display course by cards, summary or list view

Note: The timeline tab, available in pre-3.6 versions is now a separate Timeline block.

Past, In Progress and Future courses

For courses to appear in the 'Past' section, the course end date must be in the past or the course must be completed.
For courses to appear in the 'In Progress' section, they must be not yet completed and the current date must be after the course start date. The current date must be before the end date, or there is no end date. Courses 'In progress 'displayed in the Course overview block match the courses displayed in the navigation drawer, although a site administration navigation setting can limit this number.
For courses to appear in the 'Future' section, the student must be enrolled in them even though the course start date is in the future.

Starred and hidden courses

To 'star' ('bookmark') a course click the three dots by its name and then click the star icon.
To hide a course, click the three dots by its name and then click the hide icon.
Courses may be filtered by starred or hidden courses. Alternatively,for starred courses. the Starred courses block may be added to the dashboard

How to make the percentages display on the Course overview

For the percentages to display, the course must have Activity completion enabled.

Note that the percentages relate only to the percentage of activities with activity completion set that have been completed. The percentages do NOT relate to course completion.

The percentage calculation uses the total number of activities with activity completion set, regardless of whether they are hidden or have an access restriction. The only way to make the percentage reflect work assigned to date would be to not set activity completion for activities which are hidden or have an access restriction.

Capabilities

There is just one capability for this block:

Add a new course overview block to Dashboard

(There is also a capability block/myoverview:addinstance which was added in error and doesn't do anything and is due for removal in MDL-63995.)

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-The new course overview block in Moodle 3.3 onwards enables students to check their course progress and view upcoming deadlines.It allows teachers to easily see activities needing grading.
+==The course overview block==
-==What a student sees==
-*The course overview is displayed on a student's dashboard and displays two tabs: Timeline and Courses.
-*The Timeline tab can be sorted by dates or by courses. When sorted by dates,  sections for Recently overdue (if applicable), Today, Next 7 days, and Next 30 days display. Students can click to go directly to a required item - for example, 'Add submission' to submit an assignment.This screenshot shows the timeline sorted by dates:
-[[File:33COTimelineDates.png]]
+The  course overview block enables students to check their course progress and view upcoming deadlines. It allows teachers to easily see activities needing grading. To get started, watch the [https://youtu.be/SKtUHEUMjWA Course overview improvements screencast].
-*Switching to the Courses view, the student then sees activities filtered by course, with a percentage completion icon.This percentage shows how many of the activities with activity completion settings have been completed so far.This screenshot show the timeline sorted by courses:
+Note for sites upgrading from earlier versions: The course overview block in previous versions of Moodle has been removed and replaced with a new course overview. The [[Course overview (legacy)|legacy course overview block]] may be downloaded from the Plugins directory: [https://moodle.org/plugins/block_course_overview Blocks: Course overview (legacy)].
-[[File:33COTimelineCourses1.png]]
-*If the student clicks the Courses tab instead of the Timeline tab, she can then view current, future or past courses. This screenshot shows current (in progress) courses:
-[[File:33COCoursesTab.png]]
+==What enrolled users see==
+{{New features}}
+*The course overview is displayed on a student's dashboard and displays three dropdowns:
+*an option to sort by all, current, future, in progress, starred or hidden courses
+*an option to display courses by last accessed or by title
+*an option to display course by cards, summary or list view
-'''NOTE:''' For courses to appear in the 'Future' section, the student must be enrolled in them. For courses to appear in the 'Past' section, the course end date must be in the past.
+'''Note:''' The timeline tab, available in pre-3.6 versions is now a separate [[Timeline block]].
-==What a teacher sees==
+===Past, In Progress and Future courses===
-A course teacher has a similar view to that of a student. Additionally, however, they are alerted when assignments need grading. The number needed grading displays for the teacher and they click the 'Grade' link to go directly to the grading screen:
+*For courses to appear in the 'Past' section, the course end date must be in the past or the course must be completed.
+*For courses to appear in the 'In Progress' section, they must be not yet completed and the current date must be after the course start date. The current date must be before the end date, or there is no end date. Courses 'In progress 'displayed in the Course overview block match the courses displayed in the navigation drawer, although a site administration navigation setting can limit this number.
+*For courses to appear in the 'Future' section, the student must be enrolled in them even though the course start date is in the future.
+===Starred and hidden courses===
-[[File:33COTeacherView.png]]
+[[File:docsStarHide.png]]
-==How to make activities display on the Course overview==
+*To 'star' ('bookmark') a course click the three dots by its name and then click the star icon.
-*For activities to display on the Course overview, deadlines must be set.
+*To hide a course, click the three dots by its name and then click the hide icon.
-*For resources  (such as Pages or Books) the 'Expect completed by' date must be set in the Activity completion settings of the resource.
+*Courses may be filtered by starred or hidden courses. Alternatively,for starred courses. the [[Starred courses block]] may be added to the dashboard
-*For teachers to see assignments which need grading, a 'Remind me to grade by' date must be entered in the assignment set up screen.
 ==How to make the percentages display on the Course overview==
-For the percentages to display, the course must have course completion enabled.
+For the percentages to display, the course must have [[Activity completion]] enabled.
+[[File:completionpercentage.png]]
+Note that the percentages relate only to the percentage of activities with activity completion set that have been completed. The percentages do NOT relate to course completion.
+The percentage calculation uses the total number of activities with activity completion set, regardless of whether they are hidden or have an access restriction. The only way to make the percentage reflect work assigned to date would be to not set activity completion for activities which are hidden or have an access restriction.
+==Capabilities==
+There is just one capability for this block:
+* [[Capabilities/block/myoverview:myaddinstance|Add a new course overview block to Dashboard]]
+(There is also a capability block/myoverview:addinstance which was added in error and doesn't do anything and is due for removal in MDL-63995.)
 ==See also==
-* For the documentation related to the previous version of the block, please refer to [[Course overview (legacy)]].
+* For the documentation related to the previous version of the block, please refer to [[Course overview (legacy)]]
+* MDL-60912 - Percentage complete in course overview on Dashboard should consider hidden or blocked activities
 [[es:Vista general del curso]]
+[[de:Kursübersicht-Block]]

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