Stefan-Alexander Scholz
Lead maintainer
Dash
Maintained by
Stefan-Alexander Scholz, bdecent gmbh
Make it your Moodle
Description
Dash is a powerful block plugin, allowing users to add dynamic content to their Moodle sites as well as customizing layout and style of pages and dashboards.
Usable everywhere
Dynamic & static content
Styling options
Empty state handling
Query builder
Widgets
Use cases
- Mandatory learning overview
- Display courses that your learners have to complete
- Course catalogs with filters and on-page search
- Teacher’s area: a dedicated place for teachers
- Team dashboard, empowering line managers to manage their team
- Community pages, to connect your learners and supercharge groups
- … and many more
Dash provides great features that are completely free. For more functionality, we offer a Plus, Pro and Premium plan.
Highly customizable block
Fine-tuning Dash blocks visually and enhancing user experience.
- Usable everywhere: Dash is a versatile block type that seamlessly integrates into any available block region within your LMS.
- Combining dynamic and static content: Incorporating static content alongside the dynamic core information of a Dash block can greatly enhance user experience.
- Styling options: A range of customization options is available to craft a distinctive appearance.
- Empty state handling: In cases where no data is available for the defined Dash, admins can integrate fallback content or hide blocks.
Query builder
At the heart of the Dash framework is a powerful query builder. User data can be presented in a table layout. Dash comes with many powerful customisation options like filters, conditions and full control over the fields displayed. If Video Time Pro is already installed on the Moodle site, Dash can also use this data source to provide an overview of all Video Time activities within the LMS or insights into video consumption patterns.
Dash Pro makes data available from various data sources, such as courses, completions, site logs and more. Moreover, this data is then displayed using different layouts such as grid, slider, accordion or timelines.
Data sources
- Users
- Video Time (Requires Video Time Pro)
- Courses, Course categories (Requires Dash Plus)
- Course certificates, Badges, Course completions, Site logs, Dashboards, Activities, Programs (Requires Dash Pro)
Layouts
- Table
- Grid, Slider, Masonry, Accordion, One figure/two figure, Timeline (Dash Plus)
Creating a Dash block is simple: Turn on editing, select the Dash block, choose the feature and configure it.
Widgets
In each Dash block, administrators can choose to use a ready made widget. These widgets are crafted to showcase targeted information for defined use cases.
Dash Basic
My Learning showcases all courses in which the current user is enrolled but hasn't completed yet.
My contacts visually presents the contacts from the user's address book and displays suggested users.
My groups brings course group management right to the user's fingertips.
Dash Pro
In addition to the widgets above, Dash Pro offers four widgets.
Dash Premium
The learning path widget showcases completed and pending courses for each user in a visually appealing path, which can be individually designed via a SVG file. However, we also provide free design packages. Here are some examples:
Dashboards
Available in Dash Plus
Administrators can create an unlimited amount of dynamic pages with highly adaptable layouts. With a variety of setting options, it is possible to create dynamic course previews, course listings and access restrictions.
Create a dashboard as a course preview for students. Administrators can specify which courses should be displayed by category, enrolment status, enrolment role, custom fields, completion status and more...
Create role-specific dashboards, e.g. a dashboard for teachers. In our example, we list teacher's students, provide an overview about the completion status per course and the teacher's current courses.
Visual content blocks
Available in Dash Plus
Selection of layouts for static content offering multiple customizable content fields.
Developer
Available in Dash Premium
Empowering administrators to craft custom data sources with SQL queries in a convenient assistant as well as custom layouts via a Mustache template.
Contributors
Awards
Automated testing support
Early bird 4.0