Default MyMoodle Page does not display all courses

[CarolBooth]

i'm using moodle 2.4 on ubuntu

 

By default, the MyMoodle page displays just 10 courses (and for my installation at least there isn't even a link to the other courses - just a notice saying 'you have X hidden courses'. I know a lot of users are not going to fix this for themselves, even if I tell them many times, so I'd like to fix it for them.

 

I have tried editing the courses block on the default My Moodle page but this is not reflected for individual users. I can see in the database that when a user overrides the default (in this case to 'always show all'), a record is placed in mdl_user_preferences like:

 

id userid name value

9325 2 course_overview_number_of_courses 0

 

I'm not so keen on adding a record for every single user into this table so I looked at config-dist.php and found

 

//=========================================================================

// 9. FORCED SETTINGS

//=========================================================================

// It is possible to specify normal admin settings here, the point is that

// they can not be changed through the standard admin settings pages any more.

//

// Core settings are specified directly via assignment to $CFG variable.

// Example:

// $CFG->somecoresetting = 'value';

//

// Plugin settings have to be put into a special array.

// Example:

// $CFG->forced_plugin_settings = array('pluginname' => array('settingname' => 'value', 'secondsetting' => 'othervalue'),

// 'otherplugin' => array('mysetting' => 'myvalue', 'thesetting' => 'thevalue'));

//

 

This looks to me like a good place to change a default but I'm not sure what the name of the core setting would be.

 

Any advice?

 

thanks - Carol

[wiseoldowl]

If you're on 2.4 you could check your settings in Site administration > Appearance > Courses and change the settings there to suit. The default courses per page is 20 and the default courses with summaries limit is 10.

[nadeem]

Site Admin-Appearance-Navigation on older 2.0 versions

[CarolBooth]

Thanks Jeremy and Nadeem

I'm afraid that was too good to be true. I changed both settings to 40 but when logged in as teacher, the Courses block on MyMoodle still defaults to 10.

Anyone used forced settings in php.ini?

Carol