Activities overview

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New feature
in Moodle 5.0!
Accessed from Course navigation > Activities, the activities overview lists all activities in the course with dates and other information relevant to teachers and students.

Activities overview

Teacher view

Teachers see a list of the activities they and for graded activities also see due dates, number of submissions and number requiring grading along with a link to the activity.

Resources such as files, folders, Books and Pages are combined into the Resources section.

Teacher view of assignments in overview

Student view

Students see a similar list of activities and for graded activities they see due dates, completion requirements and their submission status.

Activities overview showing assignments for students

Hiding or showing the activities overview

Access to the activities overview is controlled by the capability View activities overview, which is allowed for the default roles of manager, teacher, non-editing teacher and student.

To hide the activities overview in all courses on the site, you need to go to Site administration > Users > Define roles, edit the roles of teacher, non-editing teacher and student and unset the 'View activities overview' capability.

You can hide the activities overview in a particular course via Course navigation > Participants > Permissions.