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Site administration block

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The site administration block is seen on the home page of the Moodle site by administrators. This block was reorganized in Moodle 1.7. The page index will guide you to the sub categories under each of the major headings. In Moodle 2.0 the site administration settings are show as expandable links in the Settings block.

General Links

Site Administration block menu 1.8

Notifications

This links to a page with several purposes.

  • Cron can be run from this page if it's not automated
  • The site's Moodle version, copyright, acknowledgments and GNU license information can be found here
  • If a new version of Moodle has been loaded, notification can begin the install process
  • There is a Moodle registration request and link

Users

Users page has a site admin block section

Courses

The site administration block under the courses folder has

Location

Language

Modules

Security

Appearance

Front Page

Front Page is often administered as a type of course.

Server

Networking

Reports

Miscellaneous


Site Administration links in 2.0

For the most part, the above with submenus can be found by expanding the links under site administration in the Settings block in Moodle 2.0.

The site administration links in 2.0

See also