About
The Courses data source provides access to course information within your Moodle site. It is used to build course catalogs, individual overviews, or featured course lists.
You can find these settings when opening the preferences of a Dash block.
Available fields
These are the building blocks available for your layout:
Course
Short name
Full name
Course start date
ID number
Summary
Course URL
Course button
Course image URL
Course image
Course image link
Format
Enable completion tracking
Course tags
Total activities
Users completed
Users not completed
Status
Enrollment options
Smart course button
Course information button (links to the course dashboard if it exists, otherwise to the enrollment option page)
Custom course fields (setup individual on your Moodle installation)
Course category
Category name
Category URL
Details area
Details button
Details link
Note: For how to enable and arrange these fields, see Fields preferences. To configure how the details button and link behave, see the Details area preferences.
Available filters
These are the filters available in the data source:
Category
Course start date
Course end date
Format
Course tags
Status
Course dates
Note: For how to enable these for your users, see Filters preferences.
Available conditions
You can restrict which courses are included in the block using the following rules:
Current course – Limits data to the course the block is currently displayed in.
Courses – Manually select specific courses to display.
My enrolled courses – Only shows courses where the current user is enrolled.
Course categories – Limits data to courses within selected Moodle categories.
Hide my enrolled courses – Excludes courses the user is already attending.
Enrollment options – Filters based on how users can join the course.
Status – Filters by the course status.
Show hidden courses – Includes courses that are hidden from students in Moodle.
Course dates – Filters based on start or end date parameters.
Note: For how to apply these restrictions, see Conditions preferences.