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My Moodle or My home is a customisable "dashboard" page for providing users with links to their courses and activities within them, such as unread forum posts and upcoming assignments. | My Moodle or My home is a customisable "dashboard" page for providing users with links to their courses and activities within them, such as unread forum posts and upcoming assignments. (The name 'My Moodle' was used in the admin menu in earlier versions of Moodle.) | ||
The navigation block includes a My home link directly above or below the Site home link. | The navigation block includes a My home link directly above or below the Site home link. | ||
My Home in Moodle 2.0 video: | |||
<mediaplayer>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_pBYkeXXI</mediaplayer> | |||
==Setting My home as the default home page== | ==Setting My home as the default home page== | ||
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An administrator can set My home as the default home page for all logged-in users by selecting 'My Moodle' as defaulthomepage in ''Settings > Site administration > Appearance > Navigation''. | An administrator can set My home as the default home page for all logged-in users by selecting 'My Moodle' as defaulthomepage in ''Settings > Site administration > Appearance > Navigation''. | ||
==Setting the default My Moodle page== | |||
An administrator can set which content (course overview, calendar, blocks) appears on the default My home page via ''Settings > Site administration > Appearance > Default My Moodle page''. | |||
==Managing blocks== | |||
By default, users are allowed to add blocks to their My home page. This can be prevented by editing the [[Authenticated user|authenticated user]] role and changing the [[Capabilities/moodle/my:manageblocks|moodle/my:manageblocks]] capability from allow to not set. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* [[Development:My Moodle 2.0]] | * [[Development:My Moodle 2.0]] | ||
Latest revision as of 17:51, 31 January 2011
Moodle 2.0
My Moodle or My home is a customisable "dashboard" page for providing users with links to their courses and activities within them, such as unread forum posts and upcoming assignments. (The name 'My Moodle' was used in the admin menu in earlier versions of Moodle.)
The navigation block includes a My home link directly above or below the Site home link.
My Home in Moodle 2.0 video:
<mediaplayer>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_pBYkeXXI</mediaplayer>
Setting My home as the default home page
An administrator can set My home as the default home page for all logged-in users by selecting 'My Moodle' as defaulthomepage in Settings > Site administration > Appearance > Navigation.
Setting the default My Moodle page
An administrator can set which content (course overview, calendar, blocks) appears on the default My home page via Settings > Site administration > Appearance > Default My Moodle page.
Managing blocks
By default, users are allowed to add blocks to their My home page. This can be prevented by editing the authenticated user role and changing the moodle/my:manageblocks capability from allow to not set.
