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Block “Sharing Cart”

The “Sharing Cart” is a block for duplicating course items into a personal library and an easy way to move these Moodle resources and activities between multiple courses on your site. The “ Sharing Cart ” is only visible to teachers and is separate for everyone.

The content in the “ Sharing Cart ” remain there if they are not deleted individually, even after they have been added to the corresponding course. The content remains saved even if the course has been deleted.

1. If “Edit mode” is switched on, add the “Sharing Cart” block via the “Add a block” menu on the right-hand side of the screen. You can access this side-list by clicking on the arrow on the right-hand side of the screen.

Add a Block
Add a Block

2. Once added, the “Sharing Cart” block will remain activated for the course. To collapse the entire side list, click on the “ x ” symbol. However, the contents of the Sharing Cart will remain.

3. If the target course is different from the current course, the “Sharing Cart” block must also be added to the target course.

Sharing Cart
Sharing Cart

1. In the middle column of a Moodle course, you will see a small “Shopping Bag” icon next to each resource or activity.

“Shopping Bag” besides the activity
“Shopping Bag” besides the activity

2. Click on this icon to send a copy of the activity to the shared shopping cart. The user data can optionally be retained which is very helpful for activities such as Glossary and Wiki.

3. Alternatively, you can also copy an entire section into the Sharing Cart instead of an activity. To do this, use the small shopping symbol next to the section name or select the topic from the list of sections in the block and click on “Copy section”. This will create a folder in the Sharing Cart. If you click on this folder, all the files and activities it contains will be displayed.

1. Go to the course to which you want to copy the content.

2. Click on the “Copy to course” icon in the “Sharing Cart”.

3. Select the location where you want to place your element and it will be copied there directly.

“Copy” in the block “Sharing Cart”
“Copy” in the block “Sharing Cart”

When copying entire sections, if another section with the same title already exists in the target course, before pasting you must select whether the name of the section should be overwritten or retained. Please also note that when overwriting the formatting, the section settings are also overwritten, and the old settings are lost.

Conflict when copying sections with the same title
Conflict when copying sections with the same title

To move an element to a folder, click on the “Move to folder” icon, then a drop-down list will appear and then you can select the destination folder. If you click on the “Edit” button, the selection list is replaced by an input field. If you provide a non-existing title name, a new folder with the same name will appear in the “Sharing Cart”.

Move content to a folder
Move content to a folder

Click on the small recycle bin symbol to delete it.

Delete content
Delete content

1. Via the cogwheel in the “Sharing Cart” block, you will find the option “Bulk delete” in the drop-down menu.

This provides a list of all the items in the current Sharing Cart that can be deleted. Check the boxes to select all the items that need to be deleted.

Drop-down menu “Sharing Cart”
Drop-down menu “Sharing Cart”

2. Select “Delete selected”.

3. Confirm the deletion when prompted.

4. This action will bulk delete the selected items from the Sharing Cart block.

“Delete selected”
“Delete selected”

Delete Sharing Cart block:

If the block is deleted from a course, its content is still retained. Only when content is removed individually or via “Bulk Delete” is it permanently deleted from the sharing cart.