Site administration block

Moodle1.8

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

• Links in Moodle Docs
  • Notifications
  • Users
  • Courses
  • Location: Location settings, Timezone
  • Language
  • Modules
  • Security
  • Appearance
  • Front Page
  • Server Proposed page [[Server links {administrator)]]
  • Networking
  • Reports
  • Miscellaneous: Experimental and Moodle global word editor

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

• Authentication
  • Manage authentication
  • Email-based self-registration
  • Manual accounts
  • No login

• Accounts
  • Browse list of users
  • Bulk user actions (add/send message,delete, display list, download)
  • Add a new user
  • Upload users
  • User profile fields (create new fields for user profile)
  • Enrolment plugins (was moved to Course folder in 1.8)
• Permissions
  • Define roles
  • Assign roles
  • User policies

Courses

The site administration block under the courses folder has

• Add/edit courses link will also Add/edit course categories
• Enrollment (settings page)
• Course request
• Backup settings

Location

• Location settings
• Update timezones

Language

• Language settings
• Language editing
• Language packs

Modules

• Activities
• Blocks
• Filters

Security

• Site policies
• HTTP security
• Module security
• Notifications
• Anti-virus

Appearance

• Themes folder
  • Theme selector
  • Theme settings
• Calendar
• Filter settings
• HTML editor
• Moodle Docs
• My Moodle
• Gradebook/Grades
• Course managers
• Sticky blocks

Front Page

Front Page is often administered as a type of course.

• Front Page settings
• Front Page roles Assign roles page
• Front Page backup Course backup page
• Front Page restore General Restore page
• Site files

Server

• System paths
• Email
• Session handling
• RSS
• Debugging
• Statistics
• HTTP
• Maintenance mode
• Cleanup
• Environment
• PHP info
• Performance

Networking

• Enrolments
• Peers Moodle Network page
• SSO Access Control Moodle Network page
• XML-RPC hosts Moodle Network page

Reports

• Course overview
• Logs
• Unit tests
• Statistics

Miscellaneous

• Experimental
• XMLDB editor

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

• Course administration block for settings for each specific course