Supercharge your Moodle course with quick links using Course Extra UI plugin

Moodle is a powerful learning management system with plethora of customization options. The vast collection of free Moodle plugins allows Moodle LMS to meet the learning requirements for all industries & all learner ages. In this post we will see how you can supercharge your Moodle course with Course Extra UI Moodle plugin.

The Course Extra UI Moodle plugin is a pretty helpful plugin as it allows the teachers to set up additional elements/links at the top of the course view page. The teachers can easily setup links for frequently accessed links within the course through a variety of supported elements.

The Course Extra UI Moodle plugin supports the following elements:

• Course search: allowing users to quickly find the course activities/resources using the activity name
• Course progress: displaying the course progress in percentage and optionally linking to the course completion report.
• Course total grade: displaying the course grade in percentage and linking to the user grade report
• Course intro: displaying the course intro (or any text) in the form of a modal
• News: linking to the course news forum and displaying the number of unread news (if reading is tracked)
• Complete report: linking to the complete activity report.
• Virtual room: linking to a virtual/video conference room (e.g. Zoom, Teams, Meet, etc). Course creator is to manually create the virtual room and provide the link in the block settings
• Chat room: linking to a discussion channel or forum (e.g. Telegram, Google Chat, Matrix, etc)
• Shared folder: linking to a course resource folder (e.g. Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc)

You can download the Course Extra UI Moodle plugin from the official plugins repository here.

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