Sharing Cart Block

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The Sharing Cart block allows staff to duplicate course items into a personal library. Items can be saved in the sharing cart indefinitely and easily duplicated into other courses, providing an efficient method to move items between courses. Items copied into the sharing cart will not contain user data.

The Sharing Cart block is only visible when ‘Turn editing on’ is activated and will not be visible to Students.

Media collection galleries and items are not treated as user data. If copying Media Collection activity, galleries and items contained within will be copied into the Sharing Cart.

Why use Sharing Cart

Move items between courses - The sharing cart provides a simple way to move activities between courses.

Keep a library of frequently used items - Course items can be indefinitely stored in the Sharing Cart. This gives users the ability to store duplicates of previously setup activities and use them in courses without additional setup.

Adding a Sharing Cart block

To add a Sharing cart block to your course:

On the course home page, click Turn editing on.
Using the "Add a block" block on the left hand side, add the Sharing Cart block.

Copying activities

Saving activities to Sharing Cart
Copying activities to course
Cancelling the copy of an activity into course

Saving activities to Sharing Cart

To copy an activity from a course into the Sharing Cart:

On the course home page, click Turn editing on.
Go to the activity that is to be copied, click on the "Copy to Sharing Cart" icon
In the confirmation popup, click "Confirm"
The activity has now been copied from the course. A duplicate of the activity will appear in the Sharing Cart block.

Copying activities to course

To copy an activity from the Sharing Cart into a course:

On the course home page, click Turn editing on.
In the Sharing Cart block, go to the activity that is to be copied and click on the Copy to course icon.
Go to the end of the section that the activity is to be copied to, click on the Copy here icon.
The activity has now been copied from the Sharing Cart into the course. A duplicate of the activity will appear in the selected section of the course.

Cancelling the copy of an activity into course

To cancel the copy on an activity into a course:

On the course home page, click Turn editing on.
In the Sharing Cart block, go to the activity that is to be copied and click on the Copy to course icon.
Towards the top of the course, go to the line "Copying this shared item:" and click on the cross-shaped Cancel icon beside the activity name.

Deleting a single activity

To remove an activity from the Sharing Cart:

On the course home page, click Turn editing on.
In the Sharing Cart block, go to the activity to be deleted and click on the Delete icon beside it.
In the confirmation popup, click OK.
The activity has now been deleted from the Sharing Cart.

Bulk deleting activities

To remove multiple activities from the Sharing Cart:

On the course home page, click Turn editing on.
Go to the Sharing Cart block and click on the Actions menu icon.
From the menu, click on Bulk delete.
On the Bulk delete screen, tick the checkboxes beside the activities to be deleted and click Delete selected.
In the confirmation popup, click Delete selected.

Using folders

Creating a folder
Moving activities into a folder

Creating a folder

To create a folder inside Sharing Cart:

On the course home page, click Turn editing on.
In the Sharing Cart block, go to an activity and click on the Move into folder icon.
If this is not the only folder in Sharing Cart, a selection box will appear. Click on the Edit icon beside the selection box.
A text box will appear, input a folder name into the text box and press the Enter key on the keyboard.
A folder has now been created inside Sharing Cart. Click on the folder to see what items are inside it.

Moving activities into a folder

To move activities into or out of an already existing folder inside Sharing Cart:

On the course home page, click Turn editing on.
In the Sharing Cart block, go to an activity and click on the Move into folder icon.
A selection box will appear, click on the selection box and select the folder that the activity is to be moved to.
The activity has now been moved into the selected folder. Click on the folder to see what items are inside it.

Reordering activities

To change the order of activities inside the Sharing Cart:

On the course home page, click Turn editing on.
In the Sharing Cart block, go to the activity to be moved and click on the up-down-arrow shaped Move icon.
Dotted rectangles will appear in locations where the activity may be moved to. Click on a dotted rectangle.
The activity has now been moved to the new location.