Adaptable News Slider

Part of the Adaptable UI set, this block allows you to add a news slider that displays:
1: Unread course announcements (from all enrolled courses)
2: Site announcements (front page news announcements)
3: Both of the above (combined course and site announcements)
The slider uses the jQuery slick slider and whilst designed to work with the Adaptable Theme, it *may* work with other themes.
Moodle News Slider is a jquery news slider that integrates the slick carousel jquery slider with some customisation.  It has been designed to work well on large and small screen devices.  It displays site announcements, course announcements for the current user, or both of these.   These are ordered by date.
Currently this plugin works only with the Adaptable theme, version 1.4 onwards.
The video below shows the News Slider plugin in use alongside two other plugins ( Course Discuss and Discussion Feed ):
Configuration
Each slider instance can be configured to display only site announcements, course announcements or both. There are also options for max length of subject and excerpt strings.  Full configuration options available are shown below.  When used on a course page, only that specific course’s unread announcements will display.
General configuration
Configurable max length of excerpt
Configurable max length of subject
Use caching plus cache expiry time
Per instance configuration
Option to display site news or course news or both
Maximum number of site announcements to display
Maximum period (in days) to show site announcements for
Link to older news items
Show bullet (dots) navigation on bottom of slider