Moderator Guide

This block displays guides for external teachers/graders. These guides are created by teachers and are based on templates created by administrators. The template creation system allows the generation of Moodle forms containing textarea, file uploader and links.
Moderator Guide block (plugin)
Sometimes an institution uses a Moodle site to run exams and they contract external teachers to grade the students. To help the external teachers conform with the institution grading rules, the institution provides the external teachers access to a course guide on how to grade. The Moderator Guide block allows the creation of guides for external teachers.
It is the responsibility of each main course teacher to create a course guide for the external teachers. However, a main teacher cannot create his own “free style” guide, he needs to follow a template created by the Moodle administrator. The block template creator allows administrators to create templates using placeholders for text area, file manager and links (a placeholder is like a WordPress shortcode).
On another hand, a Moodle site is sometimes used to manage multiple educational organizations. The Moderator Guide block allows administrators to restrict access to the templates and guides as needed.
Moodle Administrator
The administrator role is to install the block, set up the block in Moodle and provide the teachers with guide templates.
Installation
install the plugin files in a blocks/moderator_guide folder.
Block setup
The goal of this block is to be displayed on all course main pages.
In order to achieve this result you need to add the block on the Moodle front page. Edit the block and select display this block through the entire site. Then go to a course page, edit the block and select display on course main pages only. You can also change the name of the block in the same page.
Create a template
The teachers cannot create a guide if you don’t provide them a guide template.
Go to Site Administration > Plugins > Blocks > Moderator Guide > Manage templates
Click on Add template
Enter the following:
template name: when creating a guide, the teacher must select a template so you need to give it a name)
default guide name: it will prefilled the Guide name when a teacher creates a guide. The teacher still can change the guide name
organization: you can restrict the visibility of a template (and the guide based on this template) per organisation. See the section about organization