Editing and Adding User Tours

Summary of steps

Below is a series of steps you can follow to view and edit the tours on your Moodle site

1. Go to the Settings Administration > Site administration > Appearance > User tours.
2. From this page you can ‘Create a new tour’, ‘Import tour’ or view user tours on the ‘Tour repository’.
3. To view the steps of an existing tour click its name, to edit its setting select the gear icon next to the tour to open the editing window. 
4. Tours are displayed on pages where the URL matches the entry on the ‘Apply to URL match’ field which is edited in the editing window.

Example URLs

Below are some example URLs to put into the ‘Apply to URL match’ field:

1. /my/% - to match the Dashboard
2. /course/view.php% - to match all courses
3. /course/view.php?id=2 - to match a specific course (e.g. the course with id=2)
4. /mod/forum/view.php% - to match the forum discussion list
5. /user/profile.php% - to match the user profile page
6. FRONTPAGE to use the tour on your site's home page.

Adding steps to a tour

To add steps to a tour follow these actions:

1. Click on the name of the user tour you would like to add steps to.
2. Select the ‘New step’ option from the bottom of the list, select what you would like to highlight.
   1. Block - to display next to a matching block on the page.
   2. CSS Selector - to display next to a matching selector on the page.
   3. Display in the middle of the page
3. Input the desired title and content of the step.
4. Select whether whether you want to display the step with a backdrop, the placement, whether to display if a target is not found, move on click etc.
5. Once you are finished select ‘Save changes’ to add your step to the user tour