About
Placeholders are dynamic tags used in custom layouts to pull specific information from the Moodle database. When a Dash block is rendered, these tags are replaced with the actual data relevant to the current user or course context.
Available placeholders
User Profile
User_Id
User_Idnumber
User_Firstname
User_Lastname
User_Fullname
User_Middlename
User_Alternatename
User_Email
User_Username
User_Institution
User_Department
User_Address
User_City
User_Country
User_Mobile
User_Phone
User_Profilefield_Credits
User_Profilefield_trackrecord
User_Profilefield_jobstart
Course Information
Course_Fullname
Course_Shortname
Course_Summary
Course_Summaryplain
Course_Courseurl
Course_Startdate
Course_Enddate
Course_Id
Course_Category
Course_Idnumber
Course_Format
Course_Visible
Course_Groupmode
Course_Groupmodeforce
Course_Defaultgroupingid
Course_Lang
Course_Calendartype
Course_Theme
Course_Timecreated
Course_Timemodified
Course_Enablecompletion
Course_categories_Id
Course_categories_Name