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The Navigation Block is a feature of Moodle 2.0, and contains an expanding tree menu. Default menu items include My Home, Site Pages, My Profile, and Courses.

The block's appearance and location can be Theme dependent. This block can also appear in a course. The navigation block contents depends upon the global settings, context, and the role of the user.

Overview

The navigation block has links which can be expanded or collapsed. Here are examples of a 2.0 Standard theme's navigation block in collapsed mode and one that has the higher links opened one level.

Navigation block on Front Page
Site Front Page links expanded
Front Page, course links expanded
A course's links expanded

Configuring the Navigation Block

Users with editing access to a course area can configure its Navigation Block

Log in, go to the course area, Turn Editing On, then select the Edit icon in the Navigation Block. Then configure the following settings.

Allow users to dock this block

This allows students to free up screen area if they need to, turning the Navigation Block into a tab at the side.

Display categories as links

As long as Display Categories is enabled in Site Administration > Appearance > Navigation (which it is by default), this setting can be enabled.

Where Categories display as links, clicking on those links opens the category page, whereas clicking on the small arrowhead pulls down a further menu of its courses. It may be helpful to induct users to this distinction.

Trimming

Long titles wrapping over several lines can affect the readability of a menu.

Enabling trimming removes characters which exceed a set limit for each menu item. There is an option to remove characters from the beginning, middle, or end of the title.

Generate Navigation for the following

The options in this setting allow you to configure how far the menu should expand.

Everything The menu expands to any page in any of your areas. It does not display a list of categories.

Categories and courses The menu expands as far as listing links to the courses in each category.

Categories, courses and course structures


Categories, courses and course activities

Page contexts

[And the rest of the settings TBC]

See also