Adam Jenkins
Lead maintainer
New and updated activity indicator
Maintained by
Adam Jenkins, WiseCat (the YouTuber)
Help students spot what changed. This plugin adds eye-catching "New" and "Updated" badges to activities and resources on the course page whenever something was added or modified within a configurable time span, and can show a compact list of recently changed content at the top of the course. Badge labels, icons, colours and position are configurable site-wide, and teachers can override every setting per course — or switch the indicators off where they aren't wanted. No user data is stored, nothing is tracked, and course pages render normally with the badges injected client-side.
Description
The New/updated activity indicator (local_newupdate_indicator) answers the question every returning student asks: "what's new since I was last here?" Within a configurable time span (say, the last two weeks), any activity or resource that was created gets a "New" badge on the course page, and any that was modified gets an "Updated" badge. An optional panel at the top of the course lists the most recently added or changed items with direct links, so students can jump straight to fresh content.
Administrators set the site-wide defaults: the time span, whether each badge type is enabled, its label text, icon, colour and position relative to the activity name, and whether the recent-content list appears (and how many items it shows). Teachers with the manage capability get a "New/updated indicator" page in each course's settings to override any of those defaults for their course — including turning the feature off entirely.
The plugin needs no theme or core modifications: badges are injected on course pages by a small AMD module. Per-course overrides are stored in one tidy table, travel with course backups, and are removed when a course is deleted. It stores no personal data (null privacy provider) and is tested on Moodle 5.0–5.2.
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