Moodle Educators – Display Favorite courses with ‘Featured Courses’ block

Moodle is the world’s most popular open source learning management system (LMS). One of the reason behind its popularity is the flexibility offered to customize the Moodle LMS. You can completely customise the aesthetics as well as features of Moodle to meet your learning requirements. In this post, we will discuss about the Featured Courses Block Moodle plugin and how you can use it.

The Featured Courses plugin is a block type plugin which can help you to display pre-selected courses in a block. As a Moodle Administrator you can select the Featured Courses from the global list of courses. It will show the course names as well as the thumbnail image in a nicely packed block. You can add as many courses as you like to show in the Featured Courses block.

To get started you can download the Featured courses block plugin from the official Moodle plugins directory here. In case you are newbie then you can follow this guide to understand how to install a Moodle plugin. Once installed, you can start using this plugin without any more configurable options.

To add your favorite Courses, just Turn the editing mode on and add the featured courses bock wherever you want. Then you can choose which courses will be displayed in the block. The block also offers:

• Allow to remove the last course from the list if too many courses are added.
• Integrates with the module local_syllabus if enabled.

The block plugin is a very handy and small utility to showcase your favorite courses to your learners. What are the other handy Moodle plugins which you are using on your learning portal? Please share with us in the comments section below.