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My home

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.

Default home page

An administrator can set My home as the default home page for all logged-in users by selecting 'My Moodle' as default home page in Settings > Site administration > Appearance > Navigation.

If 'User preference' is selected as default home page, each user needs to navigate to either the 'Home Page' or the 'My home' page then via the Settings > My profile settings click the "Make this my default home page" link. Note that this option only appears on the page that is not their current default home page. Once selected, Moodle will remember which page to present them each time they log on.

Users with the Site administrator role cannot set My home as their default home page.

Setting the default My home page for new users

An administrator or manager (or other user with the capability moodle/my:configsyspages) can set which content (course overview, calendar, blocks) appears on the My home page for new users as follows:

Access Settings > Site administration > Appearance > Default My Moodle page
Select the required blocks from the "Add a block" drop-down menu. Configure each block as desired
Reposition blocks using the arrow icons in the block headers

Accessing My Moodle page

Editing My Moodle page

Adding a block to the My home page for all users

An administrator can add a new block to the My home page for all existing users (not only new users) as follows:

Turn editing on for the front page
Add the block to the front page
Edit where the block appears and set the page contexts to 'Display throughout the entire site'
Go to your My home page and again edit where the block appears and set 'Display on page types' to 'My home page'

Preventing users from customizing their profile page

By default, users can customize their My home page and add blocks. To prevent this

Go to Settings > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Define roles
Edit the authenticated user role and untick the moodle/my:manageblocks|Manage My Moodle page blocks capability

My Moodle capabilities

Manage My Moodle page blocks (see above)
Configure system templates for My Moodle pages

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-{{Moodle site - basic structure}}
+{{Site appearance}}
+==My home==
-==The My Moodle (or My home) page==
+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 '''My Moodle''' "dashboard" page is available for all users via the Navigation block.  This page displays links to courses the user is associated with and some information about each course such as upcoming assessment activities along with the due date and an indication if they have submitted or not and unread forum posts.
+The navigation block includes a My home link directly above or below the Site home link.
-Users can customise the page blocks to show information relevant for them if they have been provided with the appropriate capability (see below).
+==Default home page==
-[[Image:mymoodlestudent.png|thumb|400px|center|Student My Moodle page]]
+An administrator can set My home as the default home page for all logged-in users by selecting 'My Moodle' as default home page in ''Settings > Site administration > Appearance > Navigation''.
-==Setting your default home page==
+If 'User preference' is selected as default home page, each user needs to navigate to either the 'Home Page' or the 'My home' page then via the ''Settings > My profile settings'' click the "Make this my default home page" link. Note that this option only appears on the page that is not their current default home page.  Once selected, Moodle will remember which page to present them each time they log on.
-When the Admin sets 'Default home page' via the Navigation to "User preference" each user needs to navigate to either the 'Home Page' or the 'My home' page then via the Settings > My profile settings click the "Make this my default home page" link. Note that this option only appears on the page that is not their current default home page.  Once selected Moodle will remember which page to present them each time they log on.
-==Admin Options==
+Users with the Site administrator role cannot set My home as their default home page.
-Administrators can set a default (and optionally force) site-wide layouts for My Moodle(via Site administration > Appearance > Default My Moodle page).
-The My Moodle page can be given more prominence when set as the main "home page" for users.  Administrators can set the default home page for users to either the Site Home page, The My Moodle page or allow users to choose their preference (via Site administration > Appearance > Navigation).
+==Setting the default My home page for new users==
-My Moodle is one of the pages in Moodle that allow blocks to be placed in the middle column by default (this is a theme option).
+An administrator or manager (or other user with the capability [[Capabilities/moodle/my:configsyspages|moodle/my:configsyspages]]) can set which content (course overview, calendar, blocks) appears on the My home page for new users as follows:
-[[Image:mymoodle.png|thumb|400px|center|Setting My Moodle as the default page site-wide]]
+# Access ''Settings > Site administration > Appearance > Default My Moodle page''
+# Select the required blocks from the "Add a block" drop-down menu. [[Block settings|Configure]] each block as desired
-=== Forcing blocks in My Moodle===
+# Reposition blocks using the arrow icons in the block headers
-An administrator can choose which blocks appear on the My Moodle page for all users as follows:
-# Access ''Site administration > Appearance > Default My Moodle page''.
-# Select the required blocks from the "Add a block" drop-down menu. [[Managing blocks|Configure]] each block as desired.
-# Reposition blocks using the arrow icons in the block headers.
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-===Managing blocks===
+==Adding a block to the My home page for all users==
+An administrator can add a new block to the My home page for all existing users (not only new users) as follows:
+# Turn editing on for the front page
+# Add the block to the front page
+# Edit where the block appears and set the page contexts to 'Display throughout the entire site'
+# Go to your My home page and again edit where the block appears and set 'Display on page types' to 'My home page'
+==Preventing users from customizing their profile page==
+By default, users can customize their My home page and add blocks. To prevent this
+# Go to ''Settings > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Define roles''
+# Edit the authenticated user role and untick the [[Capabilities/moodle/my:manageblocks|moodle/my:manageblocks|Manage My Moodle page blocks capability]]
+==My Moodle capabilities==
-By default, users are allowed to add blocks to their My Moodle 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.
+* [[Capabilities/moodle/my:manageblocks|Manage My Moodle page blocks]] (see above)
+* [[Capabilities/moodle/my:configsyspages|Configure system templates for My Moodle pages]]
 ==See also==
-* [[Development:My Moodle Dev Plans]]
+* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_pBYkeXXI My Home in Moodle 2.0 video]
-* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=7309 My Moodle forum]
 Using Moodle forum discussions:
-* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=77057 Extending "My Moodle"]
-* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=135191 My Moodle Development Discussions - Purposes]
 * [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=168292 Latest news on My Moodle]
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 [[fr:Mon Moodle]]
-[[de:MyMoodle]]
+[[de:Meine Startseite]]

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