Course Management 

Upcoming Events  

This block displays upcoming Calendar events in an abbreviated list, with links to the actual 

event so all details can be viewed. If this event is an Assignment,  Forum,  Quiz  or  Chat           

closing date the participant can link directly to this activity.  

Search  

Allows participants to do a Google like search of all Forums, for the occurrence of their 

search value. 

Administration  

These features are discussed in the Learner Management section of the manual. 

Courses  

This block will display a list of all courses (only) that a participant is enrolled in, allowing 

one click access to another course home page.  

Latest News  

The News forum (default) within your course provides a why in which you can post course 

news you want participants to receive. Any posting made in this forum will display as a listed 

item in the Latest News block.  

Recent Activity 

This block displays two types of information for a participant; an abbreviated list of what they 

have done since their last login (displayed within the block), and a more detailed  Full report 

of recent activity . This latter features provides the participant with a Normal view displaying 

a list of recent activity by module, or an Advanced view where report criteria can be set.  

Recent Activity is a great way to quickly spot check course participation of a 

specific learner, using the Advanced search feature.  

Online User 

Displays name and image of everyone logged in to the course within the past 5 minutes. 

Customizing Block Placement  

Blocks can be added, removed and moved around on the course 

Fig. 11 

home page to meet the needs of your classroom. When you click  

 Turn editing on  the Block block appears (Fig. 11), allowing you to  

easily perform these actions on any of the blocks we have discussed in 

this section of the manual.   

When editing is turned on, symbols for manipulating a block appear in the header (Fig. 12), 

including:   

     Eye   Hides or shows the block to students 

     X   Removes block and adds it back to Block drop down list 

   Moves block up or down in position  

   Moves block to left or right side of screen 

Fig. 12 

Moodle open source developers are regularly adding new side blocks!   

Check the Blocks forum in the Using Moodle course at http://moodle.org 

for recent additions. 

http://moodle.org 

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