---
title: "Add the Recommended for you block"
slug: "add-the-recommended-for-you-block"
tags: ["Totara Engage", "Site Administrator", "How-to"]
updated: 2025-07-22T10:52:18Z
published: 2025-07-22T11:18:53Z
canonical: "totara.help/add-the-recommended-for-you-block"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://totara.help/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Add the Recommended for you block

The **Recommended for you** block shows a range of content based on the [**Recommendations** engine](/19/docs/how-does-the-recommendations-engine-work).

Note that you must have set up the recommendations engine in order to use this block.You can find out more about how the **Recommended for you** block works in the [developer documentation](https://help.totaralearning.com/display/DEV/Recommendations+blocks).

To add this block to a dashboard, follow these steps:

1. Go to the dashboard to which you want to add the block and click **Blocks editing on**.
2. Click the plus button (![Icon

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3. Select **Recommended for you** from the list.
4. Click the cog icon (![](https://cdn.document360.io/a007399b-031e-436b-999a-528240e16f58/Images/Documentation/image-1632835758584.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-01T17%3A02%3A42Z&se=2026-11-01T18%3A02%3A42Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=aJmDOKJIWmag9xPxd8DD%2BE7PR7qyEtXCFGSWzzRVnGQ%3D)) and select **Configure Recommended for you block**.
5. Under **Custom block settings** select whether to use the **Tile** or **List** display type and select the **Number of recommendations** to display in the block.
6. Select the type of content you want to include using the **Recommendation type** setting.
7. Choose whether or not you want to display likes and ratings for items in the block. Note that if you have selected **Courses** or **Workspaces** for the **Recommendation type** you will not be able to change this setting.
8. Click **Save changes**.

Once you have added the block and viewed content on the site, the recently viewed content will be displayed.

The **Recommended for you** block can display four types of recommendations:

- **Trending**: The most viewed resources, surveys, and playlists over the last 24 hours
- **Micro-learning**: Resources with a time to read of less than five minutes
- **Courses**: Courses recommended to the user
- **Workspaces**: Workspaces recommended to the user

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