Share Learning Activities across courses easily using the Sharing Cart Plugin

Moodle LMS as the name suggests is a modular learning management system. With more than 370 million users across the world it is one of the most flexible and customizable LMS system. In this post we will see ‘How you can use the Sharing Cart Plugin’ to copy course activities in different courses.

The Sharing Cart plugin is a block type plugin which can be used to duplicate specific course items in multiple courses. You can add items into sharing cart block and then use them in any other courses. It copies the activities without user data.

You can also import the course activities from another course by using the course import function but you need to perform similar action each time. With Sharing Cart plugin, you can add the items into your personal library and then use them easily in any other course. All you need is to add the sharing cart block to your course page.

How Sharing Cart plugin works:

• Turning On and Off: With editing on, add the Sharing Cart block to your course page in both source as well as destination course pages.
• Copying to the Sharing Cart: You will notice a small “Copy to Sharing Cart” icon which appears after each resource or activity in the center column of a Moodle course. Click on that icon to send a copy of that resource/activity into the Sharing Cart. User data will be removed, only the activity itself will be cloned.
• Copying from the Sharing Cart: Click the “Copy to course” icon in Sharing Cart, then you will see many dotted boxes appear in the center column. Choose the location you wish to place your item, and it will be copied there directly.

You can get the latest version of the Sharing Cart plugin from the official Moodle plugins repository here. What are the other useful plugins which you are using on your Moodle site? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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