Moodle Community Hub (MOOCH)

According to Moodle Docs, a community hub is a directory of courses for public use or for private communities. It effectively facilitates the creation of a course portal, where each site can either be a receiver, a sender, or both. The new concept is still in its infancy, but it is expected to potentially change the way Moodle courses are advertised and potentially sold by publishers and learning institutions or shared by the community.

Community hubs are not to be confused with Moodle hubs as they both are very distinct concepts. Moodle hubs are for connecting two or more Moodle sites allowing students to participate in courses outside their institution. Community hubs are like yellow pages where courses are searched, advertised, and shared. An optional payment module is planned for the future, opening up the facility for commercial course provision.

Users can enroll and import courses from MOOCH via the Community finder block. We are not dealing with this,...