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Forum settings

2012-03-21T00:25:52Z

Cttxg: /* Subscription mode */ clarifying subscription mode options as per 2.x

{{Forum}}
[[Image:Adding a forum.png||thumb|Adding a forum, showing General and Grade sections]]To add a forum:
#As an editing teacher for a course, click "Turn Editing On", and go to the topic or week section in which you want to create the forum.
#From the dropdown menu labeled "Add an activity", select "Forum". This will take you to the forum settings page titled "Adding a new forum" page.

In an existing forum, the following settings can be found in ''Settings > Forum administration > Edit settings''.

==Forum administration settings==

===Forum name===

A short name of the forum (e.g. "Favourite colour"), which will be displayed on the course homepage.

===Forum type===

There are five forum types to choose from:

[[File:Forumtypes.png]]

*A single simple discussion - A single topic discussion developed on one page, which is useful for short focused discussions
*Standard forum for general use - An open forum where anyone can start a new topic at any time; this is the best general-purpose forum
*Each person posts one discussion - Each person can post exactly one new discussion topic (everyone can reply to them though); this is useful when you want each student to start a discussion about, say, their reflections on the week's topic, and everyone else responds to these
*Q and A Forum - Instead of initiating discussions participants pose a question in the initial post of a discussion. Students may reply with an answer, but they will not see the replies of other Students to the question in that discussion until they have themselves replied to the same discussion.
*Standard forum displayed in a blog-like format

A [[News forum]] is a special type of forum that is automatically created with a new course.

===Forum introduction===

Place the description of the forum here. It has the standard Moodle [[HTML editor]] toolbar to assist the teacher.

:''TIP:'' It is a good practice to include precise instructions for students regarding the subject of the forum and the rating and grading criteria that might be used in this forum (see below).

===Subscription mode===

When a person is subscribed to a forum it means that they will be sent email copies of every post in that forum. This will over ride some [[Edit profile|student settings in their profile]]. By default, posts are recorded about 30 minutes after the post was first written. Depending upon the email settings of each forum member, they may be sent an email immediately after the 30 minute edit window is closed, or in a batch at a time fixed by the site administrator (see below).

People can usually choose whether or not they want to be subscribed to each forum. However, the teacher can choose to force subscription on a particular forum then all course users will be subscribed automatically, even those that enrol at a later time.

There are 4 subscription mode options:
* Optional subscription - Participants can choose whether to be subscribed
* Forced subscription - Everyone is subscribed and cannot unsubscribe
* Auto subscription - Everyone is subscribed initially but can choose to unsubscribe at any time
* Subscription disabled - Subscriptions are not allowed.

The subscription mode and subscribe or unsubscribe links appear in the Settings menu under Forum administration when viewing the forum. teachers can quickly change the mode via the 'Subscription mode' options and view the current subscribers via the 'Show/edit current subscribers' link.

Tips:
* Forcing everyone to subscribe is especially useful in the [[News forum]] and in forums towards the beginning of the course (before everyone has worked out that they can subscribe to these emails themselves).
* Changing the setting from "Yes, initially" to "No" will not unsubscribe existing users, it will only affect those who enrol in the course in the future. Similarly changing "Yes, initially" will not subscribe existing course users but only those enrolling later.
* There is also a "Subscriptions not allowed" setting which prevents Students from subscribing to a Forum. Teachers may choose to subscribe to a forum if they wish.

===Read tracking for this forum?===

"Read tracking" for a forum allows users to track read and unread messages in the forum.

There are three options for this setting:
* Optional (default) - students can turn tracking on or off for the forum at their discretion
* On - tracking is always on in this forum for all members
** Not quite sure about this statement. This seems to only be true for users who have read tracking enabled in their user settings (Tested in Moodle 2.0.4 and at http://demo.moodle.net/)
* Off - tracking is always off in this forum for all members

===Maximum attachment size===

The maximum file size that may be attached to a forum post will first be determined by the Moodle site settings. The teacher may want a smaller size limit for the forum. Server file capacity, student downloading speeds and discouraging images in a document centered discussion are a few reasons to limit file size.

===Post threshold for blocking===

Students (i.e. users which don't have the 'Exempt from post threshold' permission) can be blocked from posting more than a specified number of posts in a given period.

===Grade===

Forum posts can be rated using a [[Scales|scale]] (pre existing number or word scales). By default, only teachers can rate forum posts, though students can be given permission to do so if desired (see Forum permissions below). This is a useful tool for giving students participation grades. Any ratings given in the forum are recorded in the [[Gradebook|gradebook]].

===Aggregate type===

You can set an aggregate type, in other words, decide how all the ratings given to posts in a forum are combined to form the final grade (for each post and for the whole forum activity). Some scales do not lend themselves to certain types of aggregates. There are five options:

* Average of ratings (default) - This is the mean of all the ratings given to posts in that forum. It is especially useful with peer grading when there are a lot of ratings being made.
* Count of ratings - The counts the number of rated posts which becomes the final grade. This is useful when the number of posts is important. Note that the total can not exceed the maximum grade allowed for the forum. A count may be used if the teacher simply wants to acknowledge that a reply was given in the case students being required to make a certain number of posts in the discussion. Note: Count of ratings does not work for the "Separate or Connected Ways of Knowing" scale or custom scales due to the limitation imposed by the max grade.
* Maximum rating - The highest rating is returned as the final grade. This method is useful for emphasising the best work from participants, allowing them to post one high-quality post as well as a number of more casual responses to others.
* Minimum rating - The smallest rating is returned as the final grade. This method promotes a culture of high quality for all posts.
* Sum of ratings - All the ratings for a particular user are added together. Note that the total is not allowed to exceed the maximum grade for the forum. Note: Sum of ratings does not work for the "Separate or Connected Ways of Knowing" scale or custom scales due to the limitation imposed by the max grade.

===Restrict ratings to posts with dates in this range===
The teacher can allow only posts within a certain date range to be rated. This is useful if the teacher wants to keep students focused on the most recent content and maintain a specific pace within the forum or course.

===RSS feed for this activity===

This turns RSS on or off for this forum. When set to “None,” RSS is disabled. When set to “Discussions,” the RSS feed will send out new discussions to subscribers. When set to “Posts,” the RSS feed will send out any new posts to subscribers.

===Number of RSS recent articles===

This number sets the number of articles that go out via RSS. If this number is set to 5, then the 5 most recent articles will be sent to subscribers. As new posts (or discussions) get added, the oldest post/discussion gets replaced on the RSS feed. If your forum gets a lot of posts every day, you will want to set this number high.

The administrative cron (admin/cron.php) must run after the forum is created and posts or discussions have been made. Otherwise the user will receive an error "Error reading RSS data"

Note: [[RSS feeds]] must be enabled for the site and for forums in order for the RSS settings to appear.

===Common module settings===

====Group mode====

The [[Groups|group]] mode setting has three options:

# No groups
# Separate groups - each group can only see their own group, others are invisible
# Visible groups - each group works in their own group, but can also see other groups

If the group mode is set to separate groups:
[[Image:Forum set to separate groups.png|650px|thumb|Adding a new discussion topic to a forum set to separate groups]]
* Teachers are given the option of adding a new discussion topic for all participants or for a selected group. If a teacher adds a new discussion topic for a selected group, then only group members can reply to it. If a teacher adds a new discussion topic for all participants, then students can't reply to it. (This is to ensure that groups are kept separate.)
* Students can only start discussions for their own group.
* Students can only reply to discussions started by other group members or discussions for their own group started by a teacher.

If the group mode is set to visible groups:

* Teachers are given the option of adding a new discussion topic for all participants or for a selected group. If a teacher adds a new discussion topic for a selected group, then only group members can reply to it.
* Students can only start discussions for their own group.
* Students can only reply to discussions started by other group members or teachers.

Teachers, and other users with the capability [[Capabilities/moodle/site:accessallgroups|moodle/site:accessallgroups]] set to allow, can view and post in all forum discussions, regardless of the group mode setting.

:''Note'': Single simple discussions cannot be set to separate groups (as this feature is not implemented). Instead, a standard forum should be used, with the teacher copying and pasting the same discussion topic for each separate group. If required, a permissions override may be set to prevent students from starting new discussions.

:''Note 2'': There is a further setting in 2.0, enabled at system level admin > development that hides groups-enabled activities from a student if they are not in a group.

====Visible to students====

You can hide the activity from students by selecting "Hide" here. It is useful if you wouldn't like to make the activity available immediately.

====ID number====

Setting an ID number provides a way of identifying the forum for grade calculation purposes. If the activity is not included in any grade calculation then the ID number field can be left blank.

==Locally assigned roles==

In ''Settings > Forum administration > Locally assigned roles'' selected users can be given additional roles in the activity.

===Forum moderator===

A student can be given the rights to moderate a forum by assigning them the role of non-editing teacher in the forum.

# In ''Settings > Forum administration > Locally assigned roles'' click on student
# Select the student from the potential users list on the right, and use the Add button to add them to the existing users list on the left. Multiple users may be selected by holding down the Apple or Ctrl key whilst clicking on the users' names.

See also [[Forum moderator role]].

==Forum permissions==

Role permissions for the activity can be changed in ''Settings > Forum administration > Permissions''.

[[File:Forum permissions.png|Frame|]]

Common permissions changes include:

===Enabling students to rate posts===

Click the Allow icon (+) opposite the capability to rate posts and allow the role of student.

===Archiving a forum===

A forum can be closed / archived so that students may no longer start new discussions, nor add replies, but can still read all the discussions by clicking the Prevent icon (X) for the student role for the capabilities 'Start new discussions' and 'Reply to posts'.

===Guests and posting in a forum===

There are certain things, such as posting in a forum, that guests are never allowed to do, despite the permissions interface suggesting otherwise.

The guest role has some special functionality, for example when a guest user attempts to post in a forum, they obtain the message "Sorry, guests are not allowed to post. Would you like to log in now with a full user account?"

(Note: If guests don't obtain the "Sorry, guests are not allowed to post" message because they have no reply link, then self enrolment needs enabling in ''Settings > Course administration > Users > Enrolment methods''.)

If you wish guests to be able to post in a forum, you can [[Manage roles|create a similar role]], say "visitor" with very few permissions allowed, then create an account and assign it the role of visitor. Guests can then share this visitor account.

''Anything else you'd like to achieve with a forum permissions change? Please add your suggestions to [[Talk:Forum settings]]!''

==User administration settings==

Users can choose whether or not to track unread posts in their profile settings under 'Forum tracking'. The settings are:

* Yes: highlight new posts for me
* No: don't keep track of posts I have seen

If the user chooses 'Yes: highlight new posts for me' and the forum administrator has set the 'Read tracking for this forum?' to On or Optional then the user will have new posts highlighted for them. The posts will be highlighted in the following places:

* My home page
* Main Course page
* Within the forum itself

[[Image:MoodleDocs forum_show_unread_behaviour.png|frame|center|Show unread on forum page]]

==Site administration settings==

The forum module has additional settings which may be changed by an administrator in ''Settings > Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Forum'' and, for 'Maximum time to edit posts', in ''Settings > Site administration > Security > Site policies''.

===Long and short posts===

The long and short post setting determine how forum posts on the site front page, social format course pages, and user profiles are displayed. (Note: There is currently an unresolved issue - "Site news - forum length setting has no effect for certain users" - MDL-4781.)

===Enabling timed posts===

Timed forum posts may be enabled i.e. having the option to set a display start and end date for a new discussion. Timed posts can then be created by users with the [[Capabilities/mod/forum:viewhiddentimedposts|capability to view hidden timed posts]] (normally admins and teachers).

===Maximum time to edit posts===

This specifies the amount of time people have to re-edit forum postings, glossary comments etc. Usually 30 minutes is a good value. The setting may be changed by an administrator in ''Settings > Site administration > Security > Site policies''.

===Mark post read after 'X' days===

This setting is forum_oldpostdays and specifies the number of days after which any post is considered to be read. E.g. If this is set to 14 days then any post older than 14 days will be considered read. If you set this to 0 then '''ALL''' posts are instantly considered to be read. If you don't want any posts to be considered read without the user reading them then set a high figure (e.g. 1000)

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ad-hoc contributed reports

2012-03-08T03:56:58Z

Cttxg: Attempt to categorise reports so it's easier to find them! No changes just headings added :)

==User and Role Report==
===Detailed ACTIONs for each ROLE (TEACHER,NONE-EDITING TEACHER and STUDENT)===
<code sql>
SELECT r.name,l.action, count( l.userid ) as counter
FROM `prefix_log` as l
JOIN `prefix_role_assignments` AS ra on l.userid = ra.userid
JOIN prefix_role AS r ON ra.roleid = r.id
WHERE ra.roleid IN (3,4,5)
GROUP BY roleid,l.action
ORDER BY counter desc
</code>

===LIST of all site USERS by COURSE enrollment (Moodle 1.9.x)===

Reports a site global list of all users enroled in each course
<code sql>
SELECT
user.firstname AS Firstname,
user.lastname AS Lastname,
user.email AS Email,
user.city AS City,
course.fullname AS Course
,(SELECT name FROM prefix_role WHERE id=asg.roleid)
FROM
prefix_user AS user,
prefix_course AS course,
prefix_role_assignments AS asg
INNER JOIN prefix_context AS context ON asg.contextid=context.id
WHERE
context.contextlevel = 50
AND
user.id=asg.userid
AND
context.instanceid=course.id
</code>

===LIST of all site USERS by COURSE enrollment (Moodle 2.x)===

<code sql>
SELECT
user2.firstname AS Firstname,
user2.lastname AS Lastname,
user2.email AS Email,
user2.city AS City,
course.fullname AS Course
,(SELECT shortname FROM prefix_role WHERE id=en.roleid) as Role
,(SELECT name FROM prefix_role WHERE id=en.roleid) as RoleName

FROM prefix_course as course
JOIN prefix_enrol AS en ON en.courseid = course.id
JOIN prefix_user_enrolments AS ue ON ue.enrolid = en.id
JOIN prefix_user AS user2 ON ue.userid = user2.id
</code>

===Permissions Overides on Categories===
(By: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153059#p712834 Séverin Terrier] )
<code sql>
SELECT rc.id, ct.instanceid, ccat.name, rc.roleid, rc.capability, rc.permission,
DATE_FORMAT( FROM_UNIXTIME( rc.timemodified ) , '%Y-%m-%d' ) AS timemodified, rc.modifierid, ct.instanceid, ct.path, ct.depth
FROM `prefix_role_capabilities` AS rc
INNER JOIN `prefix_context` AS ct ON rc.contextid = ct.id
INNER JOIN `prefix_course_categories` AS ccat ON ccat.id = ct.instanceid
AND `contextlevel` =40
</code>

===Lists "Totally Opened Courses" (visible, opened to guests, with no password)===
(By: [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153059#p712837 Séverin Terrier] )
<code sql>
SELECT id , category , fullname , shortname , enrollable
FROM `prefix_course`
WHERE `guest` =1
AND `password` = ""
AND `visible` =1
</code>

===Lists "loggedin users" from the last 120 days===
<code sql>
SELECT id,username,FROM_UNIXTIME(`lastlogin`) as days
FROM `prefix_user`
WHERE DATEDIFF( NOW(),FROM_UNIXTIME(`lastlogin`) ) < 120
</code>

''and user count for that same population:''
<code sql>
SELECT COUNT(id) as Users FROM `prefix_user`
WHERE DATEDIFF( NOW(),FROM_UNIXTIME(`lastlogin`) ) < 120
</code>

===Students in all courses of some institute===
What is the status (deleted or not) of all Students (roleid = 5) in all courses of some Institute
<code sql>
SELECT c.id, c.fullname, u.firstname, u.lastname, u.deleted
FROM prefix_course AS c
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON c.id = ctx.instanceid
JOIN prefix_role_assignments AS ra ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
JOIN prefix_user AS u ON u.id = ra.userid
WHERE ra.roleid =5
AND ctx.instanceid = c.id
AND u.institution = 'please enter school name here'
</code>

===Full User info (for deleted users)===
Including extra custom profile fields (from mdl_user_info_data)
<code sql>
SELECT *
FROM prefix_user as u
JOIN prefix_user_info_data as uid ON uid.userid = u.id
JOIN prefix_user_info_field as uif ON (uid.fieldid = uif.id AND uif.shortname = 'class')
WHERE `deleted` = "1" and `institution`="your school name" and `department` = "your department" and `data` = "class level and number"
</code>

===User's courses===
change "u.id = 2" with a new user id
<code sql>
SELECT u.firstname, u.lastname, c.id, c.fullname
FROM prefix_course AS c
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON c.id = ctx.instanceid
JOIN prefix_role_assignments AS ra ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
JOIN prefix_user AS u ON u.id = ra.userid
WHERE u.id = 2
</code>

===Special Roles===
<code sql>
SELECT ra.roleid,r.name
,concat('<a target="_new" href="%%WWWROOT%%/course/user.php?id=1&user=',ra.userid,'">',u.firstname ,' ',u.lastname,'</a>') AS Username
,concat('<a target="_new" href="%%WWWROOT%%/course/view.php?id=',c.id,'">',c.fullname,'</a>') AS Course
FROM prefix_role_assignments AS ra
JOIN prefix_role AS r ON r.id = ra.roleid
JOIN prefix_user AS u ON u.id = ra.userid
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON (ctx.id = ra.contextid AND ctx.contextlevel = 50)
JOIN prefix_course AS c ON ctx.instanceid = c.id
WHERE ra.roleid > 6
</code>

===Courses without Teachers===
Actually, shows the number of Teachers in a course.
<code sql>
SELECT concat('<a target="_new" href="%%WWWROOT%%/course/view.php?id=',c.id,'">',c.fullname,'</a>') as Course
,(SELECT Count( ra.userid ) AS Users FROM prefix_role_assignments AS ra
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
WHERE ra.roleid = 3 AND ctx.instanceid = c.id) AS Teachers
FROM prefix_course AS c
ORDER BY Teachers ASC
</code>

==Log Acivity Reports==
===Detailed "VIEW" ACTION for each ROLE (TEACHER,NONE-EDITING TEACHER and STUDENT)===
<code sql>
SELECT l.action, count( l.userid ) as counter , r.name
FROM `prefix_log` as l
JOIN `prefix_role_assignments` AS ra on l.userid = ra.userid
JOIN `prefix_role` AS r ON ra.roleid = r.id
WHERE (ra.roleid IN (3,4,5)) AND (l.action LIKE '%view%' )
GROUP BY roleid,l.action
order by r.name,counter desc
</code>

===Total Activity of Roles:"Teacher" and "None-Editing Teacher" by Dates and by Hours===
The output columns of this report table can be used as base for a Pivot-Table
which will show the amount of '''activity''' per '''hour''' per '''days''' in 3D graph view.

<code sql>
SELECT DATE_FORMAT( FROM_UNIXTIME( l.time ) , '%Y/%m/%d' ) AS grptimed ,
DATE_FORMAT( FROM_UNIXTIME( l.time ) , '%k' ) AS grptimeh , count( l.userid ) AS counter
FROM `prefix_log` AS l
JOIN prefix_user AS u ON u.id = l.userid
JOIN prefix_role_assignments AS ra ON l.userid = ra.userid
JOIN prefix_role AS r ON r.id = ra.roleid
WHERE ra.roleid IN (3,4)
GROUP BY grptimed,grptimeh
ORDER BY grptimed,grptimeh
</code>

===How many LOGINs per user and user's Activity===
+ link username to a user activity graph report
<code sql>
SELECT concat('<a target="_new" href="%%WWWROOT%%/course/user.php?id=1&user=',u.id,'&mode=alllogs">',u.firstname ,' ',u.lastname,'</a>') as Username
,count(*) as logins
,(SELECT count(*) FROM prefix_log WHERE userid = l.userid GROUP BY userid) as Activity
FROM prefix_log as l JOIN prefix_user as u ON l.userid = u.id
WHERE `action` LIKE '%login%' group by userid
ORDER BY Activity DESC
</code>

==Course Reports==
===Most Active courses===
<code sql>
SELECT COUNT(l.id) hits, l.course courseId, c.fullname coursename
FROM prefix_log l INNER JOIN prefix_course c ON l.course = c.id
GROUP BY courseId
ORDER BY hits DESC
</code>

===RESOURCE count for each COURSE===
<code sql>
SELECT COUNT(l.id) count, l.course, c.fullname coursename
FROM prefix_resource l INNER JOIN prefix_course c on l.course = c.id
GROUP BY course
ORDER BY count DESC
</code>

===Courses that are defined as using GROUPs===
<code sql>
SELECT concat('<a target="_new" href="%%WWWROOT%%/group/index.php?id=',c.id,'">',c.fullname,'</a>') AS Course
FROM `prefix_course` AS c
WHERE groupmode > 0
</code>

===List all Courses in and below a certain category===
Use this SQL code to retrieve all courses that exist in or under a set category.

$s should be the id of the category you want to know about...
<code sql>
SELECT prefix_course. * , prefix_course_categories. *
FROM prefix_course, prefix_course_categories
WHERE prefix_course.category = prefix_course_categories.id
AND (
prefix_course_categories.path LIKE '/$s/%'
OR prefix_course_categories.path LIKE '/$s'
)
</code>

===Blog activity per Course (not including VIEW)===
Filter activity logging to some specific Course Categories!
+ link course name to actual course (for quick reference)
(you can change %blog% to %wiki% to filter down all wiki activity or any other module you wish)
<code sql>
SELECT concat('<a target="_new" href="%%WWWROOT%%/course/view.php?id=',cm.course,'">',c.fullname,'</a>') as CourseID
,m.name ,count(cm.id) as counter
,(SELECT Count( ra.userid ) AS Users
FROM prefix_role_assignments AS ra
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
WHERE ra.roleid = 5
AND ctx.instanceid = c.id
) AS Students
, ( SELECT count(id) FROM prefix_log WHERE `module` LIKE '%blog%' AND course = c.id AND action NOT LIKE '%view%' ) as BlogActivity
FROM `prefix_course_modules` as cm JOIN prefix_modules as m ON cm.module=m.id JOIN prefix_course as c ON cm.course = c.id
WHERE m.name LIKE '%blog%' AND c.category IN ( 8,13,15)
GROUP BY cm.course,cm.module order by counter desc
</code>

===All Courses which uploaded a Syllabus file===
+ under specific Category
+ show first Teacher in that course
+ link Course's fullname to actual course
<code sql>
SELECT
concat('<a target="_new" href="%%WWWROOT%%/course/view.php?id=',c.id,'">',c.fullname,'</a>') as Course
,c.shortname,r.name
,(SELECT CONCAT(u.firstname,' ', u.lastname) as Teacher
FROM prefix_role_assignments AS ra
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
JOIN prefix_user as u ON u.id = ra.userid
WHERE ra.roleid = 3 AND ctx.instanceid = c.id LIMIT 1) as Teacher
FROM prefix_resource as r
JOIN prefix_course as c ON r.course = c.id
WHERE ( r.name LIKE '%סילבוס%' OR r.name LIKE '%סילאבוס%' OR r.name LIKE '%syllabus%' OR r.name LIKE '%תכנית הקורס%' )
AND c.category IN (10,18,26,13,28)
</code>

==Grade Reports==
===Site-Wide Grade Report with All Items===
Shows grades for all course items along with course totals for each student.
<code sql>
SELECT u.firstname AS 'First' , u.lastname AS 'Last', u.firstname + ' ' + u.lastname AS 'Display Name',
c.fullname AS 'Course',
cc.name AS 'Category',

CASE
WHEN gi.itemtype = 'course'
THEN c.fullname + ' Course Total'
ELSE gi.itemname
END AS 'Item Name',

ROUND(gg.finalgrade,2) AS Grade,
DATEADD(ss,gi.timemodified,'1970-01-01') AS Time

FROM prefix_course AS c
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON c.id = ctx.instanceid
JOIN prefix_role_assignments AS ra ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
JOIN prefix_user AS u ON u.id = ra.userid
JOIN prefix_grade_grades AS gg ON gg.userid = u.id
JOIN prefix_grade_items AS gi ON gi.id = gg.itemid
JOIN prefix_course_categories as cc ON cc.id = c.category

WHERE gi.courseid = c.id
ORDER BY lastname
</code>
For MySQL users, you'll need to use the MySQL DATE_ADD function instead of DATEADD:
<code>
DATE_ADD('1970-01-01', INTERVAL gi.timemodified SECONDS) AS Time
</code>

===Site-Wide Grade Report with Just Course Totals===
A second site-wide grade report for all students that just shows course totals.
<code sql>
SELECT u.firstname AS 'First' , u.lastname AS 'Last', u.firstname + ' ' + u.lastname AS 'Display Name',
cc.name AS 'Category',
CASE
WHEN gi.itemtype = 'course'
THEN c.fullname + ' Course Total'
ELSE gi.itemname
END AS 'Item Name',

ROUND(gg.finalgrade,2) AS Grade,
DATEADD(ss,gi.timemodified,'1970-01-01') AS Time

FROM prefix_course AS c
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON c.id = ctx.instanceid
JOIN prefix_role_assignments AS ra ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
JOIN prefix_user AS u ON u.id = ra.userid
JOIN prefix_grade_grades AS gg ON gg.userid = u.id
JOIN prefix_grade_items AS gi ON gi.id = gg.itemid
JOIN prefix_course_categories as cc ON cc.id = c.category

WHERE gi.courseid = c.id AND gi.itemtype = 'course'

ORDER BY lastname
</code>
For MySQL users, you'll need to use the MySQL DATE_ADD function instead of DATEADD:
<code>
DATE_ADD('1970-01-01', INTERVAL gi.timemodified SECONDS) AS Time
</code>

===Learner report by Learner with grades===
Which Learners in which course and what are the grades
<code sql>
SELECT u.firstname AS 'Name' , u.lastname AS 'Surname', c.fullname AS 'Course', cc.name AS 'Category',
CASE WHEN gi.itemtype = 'Course'
THEN c.fullname + ' Course Total'
ELSE gi.itemname
END AS 'Item Name', ROUND(gg.finalgrade,2) AS Score,ROUND(gg.rawgrademax,2) AS Max, ROUND(gg.finalgrade / gg.rawgrademax * 100 ,2) as Percentage,

if (ROUND(gg.finalgrade / gg.rawgrademax * 100 ,2) > 79,'Yes' , 'No') as Pass

FROM prefix_course AS c
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON c.id = ctx.instanceid
JOIN prefix_role_assignments AS ra ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
JOIN prefix_user AS u ON u.id = ra.userid
JOIN prefix_grade_grades AS gg ON gg.userid = u.id
JOIN prefix_grade_items AS gi ON gi.id = gg.itemid
JOIN prefix_course_categories AS cc ON cc.id = c.category
WHERE gi.courseid = c.id and gi.itemname != 'Attendance'
ORDER BY `Name` ASC
</code>

==Activity Module Reports==

===Detailed ACTIONs for each MODULE===
<code sql>
SELECT module,action,count(id) as counter
FROM prefix_log
GROUP BY module,action
ORDER BY module,counter desc
</code>

===Most popular ACTIVITY===
<code sql>
SELECT COUNT(l.id) hits, module
FROM prefix_log l
WHERE module != 'login' AND module != 'course' AND module != 'role'
GROUP BY module
ORDER BY hits DESC
</code>

===System wide use of ACTIVITIES and RESOURCES===
<code sql>
SELECT count( cm.id ) AS counter, m.name
FROM `prefix_course_modules` AS cm
JOIN prefix_modules AS m ON cm.module = m.id
GROUP BY cm.module
ORDER BY counter DESC
</code>

===LOG file ACTIONS per MODULE per COURSE (IDs)===
<code sql>
select course,module,action,count(action) as summa from prefix_log
where action <> 'new'
group by course,action,module
order by course,module,action
</code>

===System Wide usage count of various course Activities===
(Tested and works fine in Moodle 2.x)
Like: Forum, Wiki, Blog, Assignment, Database,
#Within specific category
#Teacher name in course

<code sql>
SELECT concat('<a target="_new" href="%%WWWROOT%%/course/view.php?id=',c.id,'">',c.fullname,'</a>') as Course

,(SELECT CONCAT(u.firstname,' ', u.lastname) AS Teacher
FROM prefix_role_assignments AS ra
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
JOIN prefix_user AS u ON u.id = ra.userid
WHERE ra.roleid = 3 AND ctx.instanceid = c.id LIMIT 1) AS Teacher

,(SELECT count( m.name ) AS count FROM prefix_course_modules AS cm
JOIN prefix_modules AS m ON cm.module = m.id
WHERE cm.course = c.id AND m.name LIKE '%wiki%') AS Wikis
,(SELECT count( m.name ) AS count FROM prefix_course_modules AS cm
JOIN prefix_modules AS m ON cm.module = m.id
WHERE cm.course = c.id AND m.name LIKE '%blog%') AS Blogs

,(SELECT count( m.name ) AS count FROM
prefix_course_modules AS cm
JOIN prefix_modules AS m ON cm.module = m.id
WHERE cm.course = c.id AND m.name LIKE '%forum%') AS Forums

,(SELECT count( m.name ) AS count FROM prefix_course_modules AS cm
JOIN prefix_modules AS m ON cm.module = m.id
WHERE cm.course = c.id AND m.name LIKE '%data%') AS Databses

,(SELECT count( m.name ) AS count FROM prefix_course_modules AS cm
JOIN prefix_modules AS m ON cm.module = m.id
WHERE cm.course = c.id AND m.name LIKE '%assignment%') AS Assignments

,(SELECT Count( ra.userid ) AS Users FROM prefix_role_assignments AS ra
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
WHERE ra.roleid = 5 AND ctx.instanceid = c.id) AS Students

FROM prefix_course AS c
WHERE c.category IN ( 18)
ORDER BY Wikis DESC,Blogs DESC, Forums DESC
</code>

===Detailed WIKI activity (per wiki per course)===
Including Number of Students in course (for reference)
<code sql>
SELECT concat('<a target="_new" href="%%WWWROOT%%/course/view.php?id=',cm.course,'">',c.fullname,'</a>') as CourseID
,(SELECT Count( ra.userid ) AS Users
FROM prefix_role_assignments AS ra
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
WHERE ra.roleid = 5 AND ctx.instanceid = c.id ) AS Students
,m.name
, ( SELECT count(id) FROM prefix_log WHERE cmid = cm.id AND action LIKE '%updat%' ) as 'UPDAT E'
, ( SELECT count(id) FROM prefix_log WHERE cmid = cm.id AND action LIKE '%annotate%' ) as ANNOTATE
, ( SELECT count(id) FROM prefix_log WHERE cmid = cm.id AND action LIKE '%comment%' ) as COMMENT
, ( SELECT count(id) FROM prefix_log WHERE cmid = cm.id AND action LIKE '%add%' ) as 'A DD'
, ( SELECT count(id) FROM prefix_log WHERE cmid = cm.id AND action LIKE '%edit%' ) as EDIT
, ( SELECT count(id) FROM prefix_log WHERE cmid = cm.id AND action NOT LIKE '%view%' ) as 'All (NO View)'
FROM `prefix_course_modules` as cm
JOIN prefix_modules as m ON cm.module=m.id
JOIN prefix_course as c ON cm.course = c.id
WHERE m.name LIKE '%wiki%'
GROUP BY cm.course,cm.module
ORDER BY 'All (NO View)' DESC
</code>

===Wiki usage, system wide===
(you can filter the output by selecting some specific course categories : "WHERE c.category IN ( 8,13,15)")

<code sql>
SELECT concat('<a target="_new" href="%%WWWROOT%%/course/view.php?id=',c.id,'">',c.fullname,'</a>') as Course

,(SELECT count( m.name ) AS count FROM prefix_course_modules AS cm
JOIN prefix_modules AS m ON cm.module = m.id
WHERE cm.course = c.id AND m.name LIKE '%wiki%') AS Wikis

,(SELECT count(*) FROM prefix_log as l WHERE l.course = c.id AND l.module LIKE '%wiki%') AS 'WikiActivity ALL'

,(SELECT count(*) FROM prefix_log as l WHERE l.course = c.id AND l.module LIKE '%wiki%' and l.action LIKE '%add%' ) AS 'WikiActivity ADD'

,(SELECT count(*) FROM prefix_log as l WHERE l.course = c.id AND l.module LIKE '%wiki%' and l.action LIKE '%edit%' ) AS 'WikiActivity EDIT'

,(SELECT count(*) FROM prefix_log as l WHERE l.course = c.id AND l.module LIKE '%wiki%' and l.action LIKE '%annotate%' ) AS 'WikiActivity ANNOTATE'

,(SELECT count(*) FROM prefix_log as l WHERE l.course = c.id AND l.module LIKE '%wiki%' and l.action LIKE '%comments%' ) AS 'WikiActivity Comments'

,(SELECT Count( ra.userid ) AS Users FROM prefix_role_assignments AS ra
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
WHERE ra.roleid = 5 AND ctx.instanceid = c.id) AS Students

,(SELECT count(*) FROM prefix_ouwiki_pages as ouwp
JOIN prefix_ouwiki as ouw ON ouw.id = ouwp.subwikiid
WHERE ouw.course = c.id GROUP BY ouw.course ) as OUWikiPages

,(SELECT count( DISTINCT nwp.pagename ) FROM prefix_wiki_pages AS nwp
JOIN prefix_wiki AS nw ON nw.id = nwp.dfwiki WHERE nw.course = c.id ) As NWikiPages

FROM prefix_course AS c
WHERE c.category IN ( 8,13,15)
HAVING Wikis > 0
ORDER BY 'WikiActivity ALL' DESC
</code>

===Aggregated Teacher activity by "WEB2" Modules===
(Tested and works fine in Moodle 2.x)
The NV column shows activity without VIEW log activity
<code sql>
SELECT ra.userid, u.firstname,u.lastname
,(SELECT count(*) FROM prefix_log as l WHERE l.userid = u.id AND l.module LIKE '%wiki%') AS Wiki
,(SELECT count(*) FROM prefix_log as l WHERE l.userid = u.id AND l.module LIKE '%wiki%' AND l.action NOT LIKE '%view%') AS Wiki_NV
,(SELECT count(*) FROM prefix_log as l WHERE l.userid = u.id AND l.module LIKE '%forum%') AS Forum
,(SELECT count(*) FROM prefix_log as l WHERE l.userid = u.id AND l.module LIKE '%forum%' AND l.action NOT LIKE '%view%') AS Forum_NV
,(SELECT count(*) FROM prefix_log as l WHERE l.userid = u.id AND l.module LIKE '%blog%') AS Blog
,(SELECT count(*) FROM prefix_log as l WHERE l.userid = u.id AND l.module LIKE '%blog%' AND l.action NOT LIKE '%view%') AS Blog_NV
,(SELECT count(*) FROM prefix_log as l WHERE l.userid = u.id AND l.module LIKE '%assignment%') AS Assignment
,(SELECT count(*) FROM prefix_log as l WHERE l.userid = u.id AND l.module LIKE '%assignment%' AND l.action NOT LIKE '%view%') AS Assignment_NV
FROM prefix_role_assignments AS ra
JOIN prefix_user AS u ON u.id = ra.userid
WHERE ra.roleid = 3
GROUP BY ra.userid
</code>

===List all the certificates issued, sort by variables in the custom profile fields===
Note: The SQL queries look intimidating at first, but isn't really that difficult to learn. I've seen in the forums that users wanted to do 'site-wide' groups in 1.9x. This is sort of the idea. It pulls all the certificates issued to all users sorted by the custom profile fields, which in my case is the Units or Depts (i.e. my site wide groups). Why certificates? I've explored with both grades and quizzes, the course admins are not really interested in the actual grades but whether the learner received a certificate (i.e. passed the course with x, y, z activities). It also saves me from creating groups and assigning them into the right groups. Even assigning in bulk is not efficient, since I have upward of 25 groups per course and constantly new learners enrolling in courses. The limitation is something to do with the server? as it only pull 5000 rows of data. If anyone figured out how to change this, please let me know. In the meantime, the work around is to pull only a few units/depts at a time to limit the number of rows. This is fine at the moment, since each course admin are only responsible for certain units/depts.

<code sql>
SELECT
DATE_FORMAT( FROM_UNIXTIME(prefix_certificate_issues.timecreated), '%Y/%m/%d' ) AS Date,
prefix_certificate_issues.classname AS Topic,
prefix_certificate.name AS Certificate,
prefix_certificate_issues.studentname as Name,
prefix_user_info_data.data AS Units

FROM
prefix_certificate_issues

INNER JOIN prefix_user_info_data
on prefix_certificate_issues.userid = prefix_user_info_data.userid

INNER JOIN prefix_certificate
on prefix_certificate_issues.certificateid = prefix_certificate.id

WHERE prefix_user_info_data.data='Unit 1'
OR prefix_user_info_data.data='Unit 2'
OR prefix_user_info_data.data='Unit 3'

ORDER BY Units, Name, Topic ASC
</code>

===Counter Blog usage in Courses,system wide===
What teachers in what courses, uses blogs and how many + student count in that course.
<code sql>

SELECT ( @counter := @counter+1) as counter,
concat('<a target="_new" href="%%WWWROOT%%/course/view.php?id=',c.id,'">',c.fullname,'</a>') as Course

,( SELECT DISTINCT CONCAT(u.firstname,' ',u.lastname)
FROM prefix_role_assignments AS ra
JOIN prefix_user AS u ON ra.userid = u.id
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON ctx.id = ra.contextid
WHERE ra.roleid = 3 AND ctx.instanceid = c.id AND ctx.contextlevel = 50 LIMIT 1) AS Teacher

,(SELECT count( m.name ) AS count FROM prefix_course_modules AS cm
JOIN prefix_modules AS m ON cm.module = m.id
WHERE cm.course = c.id AND m.name LIKE '%blog%') AS Blogs

,(SELECT Count( ra.userid ) AS Users FROM prefix_role_assignments AS ra
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
WHERE ra.roleid = 5 AND ctx.instanceid = c.id) AS Students

FROM prefix_course AS c, (SELECT @counter := 0) as s_init
WHERE c.category IN ( 8,13,15)
HAVING Blogs > 0
ORDER BY Blogs DESC
</code>

==Assignment Module Reports==
===All Ungraded Assignments===
Returns all the submitted assignments that still need grading
<code sql>
select
u.firstname AS "First",
u.lastname AS "Last",
c.fullname AS "Course",
a.name AS "Assignment"

from prefix_assignment_submissions as asb
join prefix_assignment as a ON a.id = asb.assignment
join prefix_user as u ON u.id = asb.userid
join prefix_course as c ON c.id = a.course
join prefix_course_modules as cm ON c.id = cm.course

where asb.grade < 0 and cm.instance = a.id
and cm.module = 1

order by c.fullname, a.name, u.lastname
</code>

===All Ungraded Assignments w/ Link===
Returns all the submitted assignments that still need grading, along with a link that goes directly to the submission to grade it. The links work if you view the report within Moodle.
<code sql>
select
u.firstname AS "First",
u.lastname AS "Last",
c.fullname AS "Course",
a.name AS "Assignment",

'<a href="http://education.varonis.com/mod/assignment/submissions.php' + char(63) +
+ 'id=' + cast(cm.id as varchar) + '&userid=' + cast(u.id as varchar)
+ '&mode=single&filter=0&offset=2">' + a.name + '</a>'
AS "Assignmentlink"

from prefix_assignment_submissions as asb
join prefix_assignment as a ON a.id = asb.assignment
join prefix_user as u ON u.id = asb.userid
join prefix_course as c ON c.id = a.course
join prefix_course_modules as cm ON c.id = cm.course

where asb.grade < 0 and cm.instance = a.id and cm.module = 1

order by c.fullname, a.name, u.lastname
</code>

===Who is using "Single File Upload" assignment===
<code sql>
SELECT
concat('<a target="_new" href="%%WWWROOT%%/course/view.php?id=',c.id,'">',c.fullname,'</a>') AS Course

,(SELECT CONCAT(u.firstname,' ', u.lastname) AS Teacher
FROM prefix_role_assignments AS ra
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
JOIN prefix_user AS u ON u.id = ra.userid
WHERE ra.roleid = 3 AND ctx.instanceid = c.id LIMIT 1) AS Teacher

,ass.name as "Assignment Name"

FROM
prefix_assignment as ass

JOIN
prefix_course as c ON c.id = ass.course

WHERE `assignmenttype` LIKE 'uploadsingle'
</code>

==Resource Module Reports==
===List "Recently uploaded files"===
see what users are uploading
<code sql>
SELECT FROM_UNIXTIME(time,'%Y %M %D %h:%i:%s') as time ,ip,userid,url,info
FROM `prefix_log`
WHERE `action` LIKE 'upload'
ORDER BY `prefix_log`.`time` DESC
</code>

===List Courses that loaded a specific file: "X"===
Did the Teacher (probably) uploaded course's Syllabus ?
<code sql>
SELECT c.id, c.fullname FROM `prefix_log` as l
JOIN prefix_course as c ON c.id = l.course
WHERE `action` LIKE '%upload%' AND ( info LIKE '%Syllabus%' OR info LIKE '%Sylabus%' ) GROUP BY c.id
</code>

===All resources that link to some specific external website===
+ link to course
+ who's the teacher
+ link to external resource
<code sql>
SELECT
concat('<a target="_new" href="%%WWWROOT%%/course/view.php?id=',c.id,'">',c.fullname,'</a>') AS Course
,c.shortname,r.name
,(SELECT CONCAT(u.firstname,' ', u.lastname) AS Teacher
FROM prefix_role_assignments AS ra
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
JOIN prefix_user AS u ON u.id = ra.userid
WHERE ra.roleid = 3 AND ctx.instanceid = c.id LIMIT 1) AS Teacher
,concat('<a target="_new" href="%%WWWROOT%%/mod/resource/view.php?id=',r.id,'">',r.name,'</a>') AS Resource
FROM prefix_resource AS r
JOIN prefix_course AS c ON r.course = c.id
WHERE r.reference LIKE 'http://info.oranim.ac.il/home%'
</code>

==="Compose Web Page" RESOURCE count===
<code sql>
SELECT course,prefix_course.fullname, COUNT(*) AS Total
FROM `prefix_resource`
JOIN `prefix_course` ON prefix_course.id = prefix_resource.course
WHERE type='html'
GROUP BY course
</code>

===Resource count in courses===
+ (First)Teacher name
+ Where course is inside some specific Categories
<code sql>
SELECT
COUNT(*) AS count
,r.course
,c.shortname shortname
,c.fullname coursename
,( SELECT DISTINCT CONCAT(u.firstname,' ',u.lastname)
FROM prefix_role_assignments AS ra
JOIN prefix_user as u ON ra.userid = u.id
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON ctx.id = ra.contextid
WHERE ra.roleid = 3 AND ctx.instanceid = r.course AND ctx.contextlevel = 50 LIMIT 1) AS Teacher
FROM prefix_resource r
JOIN prefix_course c ON r.course = c.id
WHERE c.category IN (10,13,28,18,26)
GROUP BY r.course
ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC
</code>

==Forum Module Reports==
===FORUM use Count per COURSE -- not including NEWS Forum!===
<code sql>
SELECT prefix_course.fullname, prefix_forum.course, count(*) as total FROM prefix_forum
INNER JOIN prefix_course
ON prefix_course.id = prefix_forum.course
WHERE NOT(prefix_forum.type = 'news')
GROUP BY prefix_forum.course
ORDER BY total desc
</code>

===FORUM use Count per COURSE by type -- not including NEWS Forum!===
<code sql>
SELECT prefix_course.fullname, prefix_forum.course, prefix_forum.type, count(*) as total FROM prefix_forum
INNER JOIN prefix_course
ON prefix_course.id = prefix_forum.course
WHERE NOT(prefix_forum.type = 'news')
GROUP BY prefix_forum.course,prefix_forum.type
ORDER BY total desc
</code>

===Activity In Forums===
Trying to figure out how much real activity we have in Forums by aggregating:
Users in Course, Number of Posts, Number of Discussions, Unique student post, Unique student discussions, Number of Teachers , Number of Students, ratio between unique Student posts and the number of students in the Course...
<code sql>
SELECT c.fullname,f.name,f.type
,(SELECT count(id) FROM prefix_forum_discussions as fd WHERE f.id = fd.forum) as Discussions
,(SELECT count(distinct fd.userid) FROM prefix_forum_discussions as fd WHERE fd.forum = f.id) as UniqueUsersDiscussions
,(SELECT count(fp.id) FROM prefix_forum_discussions fd JOIN prefix_forum_posts as fp ON fd.id = fp.discussion WHERE f.id = fd.forum) as Posts
,(SELECT count(distinct fp.userid) FROM prefix_forum_discussions fd JOIN prefix_forum_posts as fp ON fd.id = fp.discussion WHERE f.id = fd.forum) as UniqueUsersPosts
,(SELECT Count( ra.userid ) AS Students
FROM prefix_role_assignments AS ra
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
WHERE ra.roleid =5
AND ctx.instanceid = c.id
) AS StudentsCount
,(SELECT Count( ra.userid ) AS Teachers
FROM prefix_role_assignments AS ra
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
WHERE ra.roleid =3
AND ctx.instanceid = c.id
) AS 'Teacher Count'
,(SELECT Count( ra.userid ) AS Users
FROM prefix_role_assignments AS ra
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
WHERE ra.roleid IN (3,5)
AND ctx.instanceid = c.id
) AS UserCount
, (SELECT (UniqueUsersDiscussions / StudentsCount )) as StudentDissUsage
, (SELECT (UniqueUsersPosts /StudentsCount)) as StudentPostUsage
FROM prefix_forum as f
JOIN prefix_course as c ON f.course = c.id
WHERE `type` != 'news'
ORDER BY StudentPostUsage DESC
</code>

===All Forum type:NEWS===
<code sql>
SELECT f.id, f.name
FROM prefix_course_modules AS cm
JOIN prefix_modules AS m ON cm.module = m.id
JOIN prefix_forum AS f ON cm.instance = f.id
WHERE m.name = 'forum'
AND f.type = 'news'
</code>

===All new forum NEWS items (discussions) from all my Courses===
change "userid = 26" and "id = 26" to a new user id
<code sql>
SELECT c.shortname,f.name,fd.name,FROM_UNIXTIME(fd.timemodified ,"%d %M %Y ") as Date
FROM prefix_forum_discussions as fd
JOIN prefix_forum as f ON f.id = fd.forum
JOIN prefix_course as c ON c.id = f.course
JOIN prefix_user_lastaccess as ul ON (c.id = ul.courseid AND ul.userid = 26)
WHERE fd.timemodified > ul.timeaccess
AND fd.forum IN (SELECT f.id
FROM prefix_course_modules AS cm
JOIN prefix_modules AS m ON cm.module = m.id
JOIN prefix_forum AS f ON cm.instance = f.id
WHERE m.name = 'forum'
AND f.type = 'news')
AND c.id IN (SELECT c.id
FROM prefix_course AS c
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON c.id = ctx.instanceid
JOIN prefix_role_assignments AS ra ON ra.contextid = ctx.id
JOIN prefix_user AS u ON u.id = ra.userid
WHERE u.id = 26) ORDER BY `fd`.`timemodified` DESC
</code>

===News Forum - Discussions COUNT===
Which is actually... How much instructions students get from their teachers
<code sql>
SELECT c.shortname ,
concat('<a target="_new" href="%%WWWROOT%%/course/view.php?id=',c.id,'">',c.fullname,'</a>') AS Course
,( SELECT DISTINCT CONCAT(u.firstname,' ',u.lastname)
FROM prefix_role_assignments AS ra
JOIN prefix_user AS u ON ra.userid = u.id
JOIN prefix_context AS ctx ON ctx.id = ra.contextid
WHERE ra.roleid = 3 AND ctx.instanceid = c.id AND ctx.contextlevel = 50 LIMIT 1) AS Teacher
,concat('<a target="_new" href="%%WWWROOT%%/mod/forum/view.php?f=',fd.forum,'">',count(fd.id),'</a>') AS DiscussionsSum
FROM prefix_forum_discussions AS fd
INNER JOIN prefix_forum AS f ON f.id = fd.forum
INNER JOIN prefix_course AS c ON c.id = f.course
WHERE f.type = 'news' AND c.category IN (10,13,28,18,26)
GROUP BY fd.forum
ORDER BY count(fd.id) DESC
</code>

==Quiz Module Reports==
===Generate a list of instructors and their email addresses for those courses that has "essay questions" in their quizzes===
<code sql>
SELECT qu.id AS quiz_id, qu.course AS course_id, qu.questions,
co.fullname AS course_fullname, co.shortname AS course_shortname,
qu.name AS quiz_name, FROM_UNIXTIME(qu.timeopen) AS quiz_timeopen, FROM_UNIXTIME(qu.timeclose) AS quiz_timeclose,
u.firstname, u.lastname, u.email,
FROM mdl_quiz qu, mdl_course co, mdl_role re, mdl_context ct, mdl_role_assignments ra, mdl_user u
WHERE FROM_UNIXTIME(timeopen) > '2008-05-14' AND
qu.course = co.id AND
co.id = ct.instanceid AND
ra.roleid = re.id AND
re.name = 'Teacher' AND
ra.contextid = ct.id AND
ra.userid = u.id

SELECT Count('x') As NumOfStudents
FROM mdl_role_assignments a
JOIN mdl_user u ON userid = u.id
WHERE roleid = 5 AND contextid = (SELECT id FROM mdl_context WHERE instanceid = 668 AND contextlevel = 50)
</code>

enrol/manual/edit

2011-11-11T03:48:47Z

Cttxg: adding link to Manual Enrolment page

See [[Manual_enrolment]]

admin/setting/additionalhtml

2011-11-01T00:44:47Z

Cttxg: adding information to auto-linked page

== Additional HTML ==

These settings allow you to specify HTML that you want added to every page without altering the Moodle code files.

You can add HTML will be added within the HEAD tag for the page, immediately after the BODY tag has been opened, or immediately before the body tag is closed.

Doing this allows you add custom headers or footers on every page, or add support for services like Google Analytics very easily and independent of your chosen theme.

== See also ==
[[Site_appearance|Site appearance]] menu on Moodle Docs

[[Category:Site administration]]

Dialogue module

2011-10-31T20:11:11Z

Cttxg: /* Module History */ adding 2011 2.0x support

'''Dialogues''' allow students or teachers to start two-way dialogues with another person. They are course activities that can be useful when the teacher wants a place to give private feedback to a student on their online activity. For example, if a student is participating in a language forum and made a grammatical error that the teacher wants to point out without embarassing the student, a dialogue is the perfect place. A dialogue activity would also be an excellent way for counsellors within an institution to interact with students - all activities are logged and email is not necessarily required.

Dialogue is a contributed activity module originally released for Moodle 1.6.x. and subsequently updated for Moodle 1.8.x to support roles and capabilities and most recently updated to support Moodle 1.9.x, 2.0x and Groupings (groups of groups)

==Features==
* Teachers can initiate private Dialogues between themselves and individual students
* Teachers can initiate individual Dialogues with all members of a group at one time
* Users can attach documents to their dialogue posts
* Students can view a time-stamped history of interaction between themselves and their teachers / tutors within the context of papers.
* Teachers and Students can view time-stamped histories of the interaction between them. Teachers can additionally view interaction histories with all students within a particular paper.
* Users can receive notification of new Dialogue posts via e-mail subscription
* Students can edit Dialogue posts within a specified period of time (30min default).

==Settings==
[[Image:DialogueSettings.gif|thumb|Dialogue Settings]]
* Type of dialogue can be set to Teacher-Student, Student-Student, Anyone-Anyone
* Ability for Students (or any role) to initiate a Dialogue can be managed in the activity role overrides
* Can configure whether a Dialogue activity should allow more than one Dialogue between any two participants
* Can enable/disable email notification
* Can set the number of days after which a closed Dialogue will be removed
* Admin setting at site-level to control display of unread dialog count on course pages

==Roles/Capabilities==
The following capabilities are able to be assigned/set against site wide roles and overridden in your local Dialogue instances:
* mod/dialogue:open
* mod/dialogue:close
* mod/dialogue:manage
* mod/dialogue:viewall - allow users to have read access to dialogues which they are not a participant
* mod/dialogue:participate
* mod/dialogue:participateany - allows users to participate in dialogues that are not initiated with themselves

==Tips and tricks==
*When students initially enroll on a site, it might be a good idea to send them a welcome dialogue to let them know the teacher is there. This way if the student has something to say to the teacher, they will feel more comfortable responding, since the teacher made the first step.

==Module History==
* 2003/Oct - Ray Kingdon released the original module
* 2004/Jun - Dialogues with groups of students were supported
* 2006/Apr - Howard Miller (aka thepurpleblob) University of Glasgow, contributed fixes to bring Dialogue in line w v1.6
* 2006/Aug - Howard Miller volunteered to maintain the module. At the time he mentioned Messaging was the mechanism MartinD saw as the tool the core project would be supporting for this sort of activity, and that Dialogue was never actually intended to be anything other than an optional module.
* 2007/May - Clinton Graham provided a diff to get Dialogue running with roles in v1.8
* 2007 - Catalyst integrated group support allowing allocation of groups (or groupings) to specific activities.
* 2007/Aug - University of Waikato contract Catalyst to update Dialogue module to support v1.9 and make a number of feature changes
* 2008/Aug - Reinstated dialogue type selector, various bug fixes (Enrique,Clinton,Lorenzo & Dean)
* 2009/Feb - Improvements to student-to-student mode and all-participants selection for teachers (Dean)
* 2009/Mar - Reintroduced unread entries tracking, and validation fix on edittime field (Dean)
* 2009/Aug - Multiple fixes and improvements (Dean. With lots of contributed code/inspiration here from Enrique Castro)
** fixed bug re lost HTML formatting (see: CONTRIB-1448)
** sorting columns by name, date, post count etc (see: CONTRIB-1449)
** improved group-mode support (see: CONTRIB-1490)
** added participation report support (see: CONTRIB-1454)
** change to view current conversation after update rather than go back to list (see: CONTRIB-1455)
** lots of codeing/style improvments, thanx Petr :) (see: CONTRIB-1216)
* 2011/Oct - Troy Williams updated to support v2.0x

== Possible Future Developments ==
Following is a list of future developments (in priority order). Please feel free to [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=126340 discuss these developments] and vote for these if you feel the priority order is not quite right. We also ask that you add to this list:

CONTRIB-1450 Email Notifications includes:
* Option to send immediately (rather than wait 30 mins)
* Option to include the dialogue message content in the email notification

CONTRIB-1451 Change to entry header to include user's name & increase font
* Instead of "On Friday, 1 June 2009, 05:43 pm you wrote: ", would it be better that the name is displayed instead, if the dialogue was exported and archived and the people who are reading it would not know the "you" is referring to who.

CONTRIB-1452 Close conversations for unenrolled students & display date
* Close Dialogue conversations when students are unenrolled
* Display the date that the individual dialogue was closed. the last entry date is good, but sometimes the close date is not always the last entry date.
* Display the date that the closed dialogue would be removed.

CONTRIB-1453 Provide edit & delete for Manage capability (similar to forums) 

'''Other requests with no tracker items created''' - see page Page Comments for more details
* Let the user specified the end date for the closed dialogue to be removed. Which I think it would be more flexible rather than the 7, 30,...,365 days options.
* Export entries (what format - Text, Html, xml??)
* Display the date that the dialogue was added
* Don't display the "You have 30 mins to edit..." after submit, instead the user should be bought to the current dialogue and allowed to edit it even if it has passed 30mins limit.

== See also ==
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=854 Dialogue module forum] - discuss the module here
* [http://cvs.moodle.org/contrib/plugins/mod/dialogue/ CVS Repository] - browse and download the code
* [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=258 Dialogue Module entry at moodle.org]
* [http://download.moodle.org/download.php/docs/en/using_moodle/ch4_forums.pdf Chapter 4: Using Forums, Chats and Dialogues]
* [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Dialogue_2.0_specification Development:Dialogue 2.0 specification]

[[Category:Contributed code]]

Dialogue module

2011-10-31T20:09:13Z

Cttxg: added 2.0x support in introduction

'''Dialogues''' allow students or teachers to start two-way dialogues with another person. They are course activities that can be useful when the teacher wants a place to give private feedback to a student on their online activity. For example, if a student is participating in a language forum and made a grammatical error that the teacher wants to point out without embarassing the student, a dialogue is the perfect place. A dialogue activity would also be an excellent way for counsellors within an institution to interact with students - all activities are logged and email is not necessarily required.

Dialogue is a contributed activity module originally released for Moodle 1.6.x. and subsequently updated for Moodle 1.8.x to support roles and capabilities and most recently updated to support Moodle 1.9.x, 2.0x and Groupings (groups of groups)

==Features==
* Teachers can initiate private Dialogues between themselves and individual students
* Teachers can initiate individual Dialogues with all members of a group at one time
* Users can attach documents to their dialogue posts
* Students can view a time-stamped history of interaction between themselves and their teachers / tutors within the context of papers.
* Teachers and Students can view time-stamped histories of the interaction between them. Teachers can additionally view interaction histories with all students within a particular paper.
* Users can receive notification of new Dialogue posts via e-mail subscription
* Students can edit Dialogue posts within a specified period of time (30min default).

==Settings==
[[Image:DialogueSettings.gif|thumb|Dialogue Settings]]
* Type of dialogue can be set to Teacher-Student, Student-Student, Anyone-Anyone
* Ability for Students (or any role) to initiate a Dialogue can be managed in the activity role overrides
* Can configure whether a Dialogue activity should allow more than one Dialogue between any two participants
* Can enable/disable email notification
* Can set the number of days after which a closed Dialogue will be removed
* Admin setting at site-level to control display of unread dialog count on course pages

==Roles/Capabilities==
The following capabilities are able to be assigned/set against site wide roles and overridden in your local Dialogue instances:
* mod/dialogue:open
* mod/dialogue:close
* mod/dialogue:manage
* mod/dialogue:viewall - allow users to have read access to dialogues which they are not a participant
* mod/dialogue:participate
* mod/dialogue:participateany - allows users to participate in dialogues that are not initiated with themselves

==Tips and tricks==
*When students initially enroll on a site, it might be a good idea to send them a welcome dialogue to let them know the teacher is there. This way if the student has something to say to the teacher, they will feel more comfortable responding, since the teacher made the first step.

==Module History==
* 2003/Oct - Ray Kingdon released the original module
* 2004/Jun - Dialogues with groups of students were supported
* 2006/Apr - Howard Miller (aka thepurpleblob) University of Glasgow, contributed fixes to bring Dialogue in line w v1.6
* 2006/Aug - Howard Miller volunteered to maintain the module. At the time he mentioned Messaging was the mechanism MartinD saw as the tool the core project would be supporting for this sort of activity, and that Dialogue was never actually intended to be anything other than an optional module.
* 2007/May - Clinton Graham provided a diff to get Dialogue running with roles in v1.8
* 2007 - Catalyst integrated group support allowing allocation of groups (or groupings) to specific activities.
* 2007/Aug - University of Waikato contract Catalyst to update Dialogue module to support v1.9 and make a number of feature changes
* 2008/Aug - Reinstated dialogue type selector, various bug fixes (Enrique,Clinton,Lorenzo & Dean)
* 2009/Feb - Improvements to student-to-student mode and all-participants selection for teachers (Dean)
* 2009/Mar - Reintroduced unread entries tracking, and validation fix on edittime field (Dean)
* 2009/Aug - Multiple fixes and improvements (Dean. With lots of contributed code/inspiration here from Enrique Castro)
** fixed bug re lost HTML formatting (see: CONTRIB-1448)
** sorting columns by name, date, post count etc (see: CONTRIB-1449)
** improved group-mode support (see: CONTRIB-1490)
** added participation report support (see: CONTRIB-1454)
** change to view current conversation after update rather than go back to list (see: CONTRIB-1455)
** lots of codeing/style improvments, thanx Petr :) (see: CONTRIB-1216)

== Possible Future Developments ==
Following is a list of future developments (in priority order). Please feel free to [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=126340 discuss these developments] and vote for these if you feel the priority order is not quite right. We also ask that you add to this list:

CONTRIB-1450 Email Notifications includes:
* Option to send immediately (rather than wait 30 mins)
* Option to include the dialogue message content in the email notification

CONTRIB-1451 Change to entry header to include user's name & increase font
* Instead of "On Friday, 1 June 2009, 05:43 pm you wrote: ", would it be better that the name is displayed instead, if the dialogue was exported and archived and the people who are reading it would not know the "you" is referring to who.

CONTRIB-1452 Close conversations for unenrolled students & display date
* Close Dialogue conversations when students are unenrolled
* Display the date that the individual dialogue was closed. the last entry date is good, but sometimes the close date is not always the last entry date.
* Display the date that the closed dialogue would be removed.

CONTRIB-1453 Provide edit & delete for Manage capability (similar to forums) 

'''Other requests with no tracker items created''' - see page Page Comments for more details
* Let the user specified the end date for the closed dialogue to be removed. Which I think it would be more flexible rather than the 7, 30,...,365 days options.
* Export entries (what format - Text, Html, xml??)
* Display the date that the dialogue was added
* Don't display the "You have 30 mins to edit..." after submit, instead the user should be bought to the current dialogue and allowed to edit it even if it has passed 30mins limit.

== See also ==
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=854 Dialogue module forum] - discuss the module here
* [http://cvs.moodle.org/contrib/plugins/mod/dialogue/ CVS Repository] - browse and download the code
* [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=258 Dialogue Module entry at moodle.org]
* [http://download.moodle.org/download.php/docs/en/using_moodle/ch4_forums.pdf Chapter 4: Using Forums, Chats and Dialogues]
* [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Dialogue_2.0_specification Development:Dialogue 2.0 specification]

[[Category:Contributed code]]

File:edit-section-summary.png

2011-09-15T23:59:15Z

Cttxg: Editing a course section summary

Editing a course section summary

Section summary

2011-09-15T23:57:43Z

Cttxg: adding info re default section name and an image

The very top of your course (the General section) and every topic or week contains a summary. This is a default label which allows you to place information about the specific topic or week. It could be an introduction to the unit of study or a short summary of the weekly plan. Activities and resources are listed below this section.

Because the information you add to the summary appears as a label, it should be very short so that the course page doesn't become too long. If you find yourself wanting to say more than a sentence or two then consider adding a resource to this topic instead (for example, the first activity might be a page called About This Topic).

To provide a custom section title in the Navigation menu untick the "Use default section name" and include the title in the 'Section Name' text box. If you leave the default section name the navigation menu will contain 'General' for the general section and either 'Topic 1', 'Topic 2', etc for Topics format or the Week dates for Weekly format.

[[Image:edit-section-summary.png|frame|center|Edit Section Summary]]

[[Category:Course]]

Settings block

2011-09-09T03:58:28Z

Cttxg:

{{Moodle site - basic structure}}

The settings block is new to Moodle 2.0. It can be found on most pages in the left column. It is composed of links to sub menus. When the link is clicked the sub menu expands below it.

Many of the sub menus have the same functions as older versions of Moodle.

What appears in the setting block depends upon the [[Context]] (Page being shown and user's permissions). For example, the site administrator will notice the Front Page settings block has fewer options than the Course settings block and a student will have fewer options in the Course administration than a teacher.

Here are two unexpanded examples of the settings block:
<gallery widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="2">

Image:Settings block FrontPage collapsed.png|FrontPage settings block
Image:Settings block Course collapsed.png|Course settings block
</gallery>

==Settings block menus==
The main menu items (Front page settings, Course Administration, My profile settings and Site Administration) contain a submenu and can be collapsed or expanded to display the (typical) full menu as shown below:
*[[Front_page_settings_block|Front page settings]]
**Turn edit on/off
**Edit settings
**Users
**Filters
**Backup
**Restore
**Questions
**Files

*[[Course_administration_menu|Course administration]]
**Turn editing on
**Edit settings
**Users
**Filters
**Grades
**Backup
**Restore
**Import
**Publish
**Reset
**Question bank

*[[Profile |My profile settings]]
**Edit profile
**Change password
**Roles
**Portfolios (if available at site level)
**Security keys
**Messaging
**Blogs
**Make this my default home page (if set at site level)

*[[Site_administration|Site administration]]
**Notifications
**Registration
**Advanced features
**Users
**Courses
**Grades
**Location
**Language
**Plugins
**Security
**Appearance
**Front page
**Server
**Reports
**Development
**Question engine upgrade helper

==See also==

[[Category:Block]]

[[eu:Ezarpenak_blokea]]
[[de:Einstellungen (Block)]]

File:Settings block Course collapsed.png

2011-09-09T02:22:37Z

Cttxg: uploaded a new version of "File:Settings block Course collapsed.png": Reverted to version as of 02:19, 9 September 2011

File:Settings block Course collapsed.png

2011-09-09T02:21:26Z

Cttxg: uploaded a new version of "File:Settings block Course collapsed.png"

File:Settings block Course collapsed.png

2011-09-09T02:19:40Z

Cttxg: uploaded a new version of "File:Settings block Course collapsed.png": new version with no Add Resource / Add Activity options

Settings block

2011-09-09T02:11:35Z

Cttxg: replacing edit settings with basic structure

{{Moodle site - basic structure}}

The settings block is new to Moodle 2.0. It can be found on most pages in the left column. It is composed of links to sub menus. When the link is clicked the sub menu expands below it.

Many of the sub menus have the same functions as older versions of Moodle.

What appears in the setting block depends upon the [[Context]] (Page being shown and user's permissions). For example, the site administrator will notice the Front Page settings block has fewer options than the Course settings block and a student will have fewer options in the Course administration than a teacher.

Here are two unexpanded examples of the settings block:
<gallery widths="200px" heights="275px" perrow="2">

Image:Settings block FrontPage collapsed.png|FrontPage settings block
Image:Settings block Course collapsed.png|Course settings block
</gallery>

==Settings block menus==
The main menu items (Front page settings, Course Administration, My profile settings and Site Administration) contain a submenu and can be collapsed or expanded to display the (typical) full menu as shown below:
*[[Front_page_settings_block|Front page settings]]
**Turn edit on/off
**Edit settings
**Users
**Filters
**Backup
**Restore
**Questions
**Files

*[[Course_administration_menu|Course administration]]
**Turn editing on
**Edit settings
**Users
**Filters
**Grades
**Backup
**Restore
**Import
**Publish
**Reset
**Question bank

*[[Profile |My profile settings]]
**Edit profile
**Change password
**Roles
**Portfolios (if available at site level)
**Security keys
**Messaging
**Blogs
**Make this my default home page (if set at site level)

*[[Site_administration|Site administration]]
**Notifications
**Registration
**Advanced features
**Users
**Courses
**Grades
**Location
**Language
**Plugins
**Security
**Appearance
**Front page
**Server
**Reports
**Development
**Question engine upgrade helper

==See also==

[[Category:Block]]

[[eu:Ezarpenak_blokea]]
[[de:Einstellungen (Block)]]

Settings block

2011-09-09T02:11:04Z

Cttxg: Undo revision 89362 by Cttxg (talk)

{{Editing settings}}

The settings block is new to Moodle 2.0. It can be found on most pages in the left column. It is composed of links to sub menus. When the link is clicked the sub menu expands below it.

Many of the sub menus have the same functions as older versions of Moodle.

What appears in the setting block depends upon the [[Context]] (Page being shown and user's permissions). For example, the site administrator will notice the Front Page settings block has fewer options than the Course settings block and a student will have fewer options in the Course administration than a teacher.

Here are two unexpanded examples of the settings block:
<gallery widths="200px" heights="275px" perrow="2">

Image:Settings block FrontPage collapsed.png|FrontPage settings block
Image:Settings block Course collapsed.png|Course settings block
</gallery>

==Settings block menus==
The main menu items (Front page settings, Course Administration, My profile settings and Site Administration) contain a submenu and can be collapsed or expanded to display the (typical) full menu as shown below:
*[[Front_page_settings_block|Front page settings]]
**Turn edit on/off
**Edit settings
**Users
**Filters
**Backup
**Restore
**Questions
**Files

*[[Course_administration_menu|Course administration]]
**Turn editing on
**Edit settings
**Users
**Filters
**Grades
**Backup
**Restore
**Import
**Publish
**Reset
**Question bank

*[[Profile |My profile settings]]
**Edit profile
**Change password
**Roles
**Portfolios (if available at site level)
**Security keys
**Messaging
**Blogs
**Make this my default home page (if set at site level)

*[[Site_administration|Site administration]]
**Notifications
**Registration
**Advanced features
**Users
**Courses
**Grades
**Location
**Language
**Plugins
**Security
**Appearance
**Front page
**Server
**Reports
**Development
**Question engine upgrade helper

==See also==

[[Category:Block]]

[[eu:Ezarpenak_blokea]]
[[de:Einstellungen (Block)]]

Settings block

2011-09-09T02:10:34Z

Cttxg: removing edit settings menu as not applicable here

The settings block is new to Moodle 2.0. It can be found on most pages in the left column. It is composed of links to sub menus. When the link is clicked the sub menu expands below it.

Many of the sub menus have the same functions as older versions of Moodle.

What appears in the setting block depends upon the [[Context]] (Page being shown and user's permissions). For example, the site administrator will notice the Front Page settings block has fewer options than the Course settings block and a student will have fewer options in the Course administration than a teacher.

Here are two unexpanded examples of the settings block:
<gallery widths="200px" heights="275px" perrow="2">

Image:Settings block FrontPage collapsed.png|FrontPage settings block
Image:Settings block Course collapsed.png|Course settings block
</gallery>

==Settings block menus==
The main menu items (Front page settings, Course Administration, My profile settings and Site Administration) contain a submenu and can be collapsed or expanded to display the (typical) full menu as shown below:
*[[Front_page_settings_block|Front page settings]]
**Turn edit on/off
**Edit settings
**Users
**Filters
**Backup
**Restore
**Questions
**Files

*[[Course_administration_menu|Course administration]]
**Turn editing on
**Edit settings
**Users
**Filters
**Grades
**Backup
**Restore
**Import
**Publish
**Reset
**Question bank

*[[Profile |My profile settings]]
**Edit profile
**Change password
**Roles
**Portfolios (if available at site level)
**Security keys
**Messaging
**Blogs
**Make this my default home page (if set at site level)

*[[Site_administration|Site administration]]
**Notifications
**Registration
**Advanced features
**Users
**Courses
**Grades
**Location
**Language
**Plugins
**Security
**Appearance
**Front page
**Server
**Reports
**Development
**Question engine upgrade helper

==See also==

[[Category:Block]]

[[eu:Ezarpenak_blokea]]
[[de:Einstellungen (Block)]]

Front page settings block

2011-09-09T02:09:16Z

Cttxg:

{{Moodle 2.0}}
Moodle 2.0 has placed all the settings in [Settings_block|one block]]. What the user sees depends upon context. The front page menu is generally only available to Administrators.

[[Image:block-settings-frontpage.gif|frame|right|Front page menu]]
'''Front page settings'''
*Turn editing on
*[[Front_Page_settings|Edit settings]]
*Users
**Groups
**[[admin/roles/permissions|Permissions]]
***Assigned roles
***Check permissions
**[[Filters|Filters]]
**[[Course_backup|Backup]]
**[[Course_restore|Restore]]
**[[Question_bank|Questions]]

==See also==
*[[Settings block]]
*[[Course settings block]]
*[[:Category:Front_Page|Front page Category]]

[[eu:Hasiera-orriaren_ezarpenak_blokea]]

File:block-settings-frontpage.gif

2011-09-09T02:06:48Z

Cttxg: Front page settings image with submenus expanded

Front page settings image with submenus expanded

Front page settings block

2011-09-09T02:06:26Z

Cttxg: adding front page settings menu image

{{Moodle 2.0}}
Moodle 2.0 has placed all the settings in one block. What the user sees depends upon context. A site administrator on the front page will see something different than on the home page of a course. A teacher will see something different than an administrator or a student.

The site administrator will see 3 categories in the setting block on the front page of the site. A teacher or student will not see as many things. Clicking on any of these expands the menu selection. Here are the areas a submenu links:

[[Image:block-settings-frontpage.gif|frame|right|Front page menu]]
'''Front page settings'''
*Turn editing on
*[[Front_Page_settings|Edit settings]]
*Users
**Groups
**[[admin/roles/permissions|Permissions]]
***Assigned roles
***Check permissions
**[[Filters|Filters]]
**[[Course_backup|Backup]]
**[[Course_restore|Restore]]
**[[Question_bank|Questions]]

==See also==
*[[Settings block]]
*[[Course settings block]]
*[[:Category:Front_Page|Front page Category]]

[[eu:Hasiera-orriaren_ezarpenak_blokea]]

Front page settings block

2011-09-09T02:03:29Z

Cttxg:

{{Moodle 2.0}}
Moodle 2.0 has placed all the settings in one block. What the user sees depends upon context. A site administrator on the front page will see something different than on the home page of a course. A teacher will see something different than an administrator or a student.

The site administrator will see 3 categories in the setting block on the front page of the site. A teacher or student will not see as many things. Clicking on any of these expands the menu selection. Here are the areas a submenu links:

*Front page settings
*Turn editing on
*[[Front_Page_settings|Edit settings]]
*Users
**Groups
**[[admin/roles/permissions|Permissions]]
***Assigned roles
***Check permissions
**[[Filters|Filters]]
**[[Course_backup|Backup]]
**[[Course_restore|Restore]]
**[[Question_bank|Questions]]

==See also==
*[[Settings block]]
*[[Course settings block]]
*[[:Category:Front_Page|Front page Category]]

[[eu:Hasiera-orriaren_ezarpenak_blokea]]

Settings block

2011-09-09T01:54:11Z

Cttxg:

Settings block

2011-09-09T01:50:16Z

Cttxg: /* Settings block menus */ linking to various menu pages

{{Editing settings}}

The settings block is new to Moodle 2.0. It can be found on most pages in the left column. It is composed of links to sub menus. When the link is clicked the sub menu expands below it.

Many of the sub menus have the same functions as older versions of Moodle.

What appears in the setting block depends upon the [[Context]] (Page being shown and user's permissions). For example, the site administrator will notice the Front Page settings block has fewer options than the Course settings block.

Here are two unexpanded examples of the settings block:
<gallery widths="200px" heights="275px" perrow="2">

Image:Settings block FrontPage collapsed.png|FrontPage settings block
Image:Settings block Course collapsed.png|Course settings block
</gallery>

==Settings block menus==
Not all users will have all of the following options available to them depending on the context (permissions of the user on the page they are viewing). All users have the My profile settings options.

The main menu items (Front page settings, Course Administration, My profile settings and Site Administration) contain a submenu and can be collapsed or expanded to display the (typical) full menu as shown below:
*[[Front_page_settings_block|Front page settings]]
**Turn edit on/off
**Edit settings
**Users
**Filters
**Backup
**Restore
**Questions
**Files

*[[Course_administration_menu|Course administration]]
**Turn editing on
**Edit settings
**Users
**Filters
**Grades
**Backup
**Restore
**Import
**Publish
**Reset
**Question bank

*[[Profile |My profile settings]]
**Edit profile
**Change password
**Roles
**Portfolios (if available at site level)
**Security keys
**Messaging
**Blogs
**Make this my default home page (if set at site level)

*[[Site_administration|Site administration]]
**Notifications
**Registration
**Advanced features
**Users
**Courses
**Grades
**Location
**Language
**Plugins
**Security
**Appearance
**Front page
**Server
**Reports
**Development
**Question engine upgrade helper

==See also==

[[Category:Block]]

[[eu:Ezarpenak_blokea]]
[[de:Einstellungen (Block)]]

Settings block

2011-09-09T00:34:25Z

Cttxg:

{{Editing settings}}

The settings block is new to Moodle 2.0. It can be found on most pages in the left column. It is composed of links to sub menus. When the link is clicked the sub menu expands below it.

Many of the sub menus have the same functions as older versions of Moodle.

What appears in the setting block depends upon the [[Context]] (Page being shown and user's permissions). For example, the site administrator will notice the Front Page settings block has fewer options than the Course settings block.

Here are two unexpanded examples of the settings block:
<gallery widths="200px" heights="275px" perrow="2">

Image:Settings block FrontPage collapsed.png|FrontPage settings block
Image:Settings block Course collapsed.png|Course settings block
</gallery>

==Settings block menus==
Not all users will have all of the following options available to them depending on the context (permissions of the user on the page they are viewing). All users have the My profile settings options.

The main menu items (Front page settings, Course Administration, My profile settings and Site Administration) contain a submenu and can be collapsed or expanded to display the (typical) full menu as shown below:
*Front page settings
**Turn edit on/off
**Edit settings
**Users
**Filters
**Backup
**Restore
**Questions
**Files

*Course administration
**Turn editing on
**Edit settings
**Users
**Filters
**Grades
**Backup
**Restore
**Import
**Publish
**Reset
**Question bank

*My profile settings
**Edit profile
**Change password
**Roles
**Portfolios (if available at site level)
**Security keys
**Messaging
**Blogs
**Make this my default home page (if set at site level)

*Site administration
**Notifications
**Registration
**Advanced features
**Users
**Courses
**Grades
**Location
**Language
**Plugins
**Security
**Appearance
**Front page
**Server
**Reports
**Development
**Question engine upgrade helper

==See also==

[[Category:Block]]

[[eu:Ezarpenak_blokea]]
[[de:Einstellungen (Block)]]

Settings block

2011-09-09T00:33:57Z

Cttxg: /* Front Page settings block */ adding extra menu items that were missing and slight reword of intro

{{Editing settings}}

The settings block is new to Moodle 2.0. It can be found on most pages in the left column. It is composed of links to sub menus. When the link is clicked the sub menu expands below it.

Many of the sub menus have the same functions as older versions of Moodle.

What appears in the setting block depends upon the [[Context]] (Page being shown and user's permissions). For example, the site administrator will notice the Front Page settings block has fewer options than the Course settings block.

Here are two unexpanded examples of the settings block:
<gallery widths="200px" heights="275px" perrow="2">

Image:Settings block FrontPage collapsed.png|FrontPage settings block
Image:Settings block Course collapsed.png|Course settings block
</gallery>

==Settings block menus==
Not all users will have all of the following options available to them depending on the context (permissions of the user on the page they are viewing). All users have the My profile settings options.

The main menu items (Front page settings, Course Administration, My profile settings and Site Administration) contain a submenu and can be collapsed or expanded to display the (typical) full menu as shown below:
*Front page settings
**Turn edit on/off
**Edit settings
**Users
**Filters
**Backup
**Restore
**Questions
**Files

*Course administration
**Turn editing on
**Edit settings
**Users
**Filters
**Grades
**Backup
**Restore
**Import
**Publish
**Reset
**Question bank

*My profile settings
**Edit profile
**Change password
**Roles
**Portfolios (if available at site level)
**Security keys
**Messaging
**Blogs
**Make this my default home page (if set at site level)

*Site administration
**Notifications
**Registration
**Advanced features
**Users
**Courses
**Grades
**Location
**Language
**Plugins
**Security
**Appearance
**Front page
**Server
**Reports
**Development
**Question engine upgrade helper

==Course settings block==
The site administrator will see these

==See also==

[[Category:Block]]

[[eu:Ezarpenak_blokea]]
[[de:Einstellungen (Block)]]

Other users

2011-09-08T22:39:24Z

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{{Moodle 2.0}}
This allows you to associate users to a course without enrolling them. This means they have a role but and can carry out tasks relevant to their permissions but will not appear in the Participants list. An example of this would be assigning a user to a Principal, Manager or Helpdesk type role to provide them access without confusing the participants list.

Note that this page will also provide a list of users who have been assigned a similar role at Site or Category level.

[[Image:block-settings-otherusers.gif|frame|left|Assign Others Link]]
[[Image:assign-otherusers.gif|frame|right|Assign Other Users screen]]

enrol/otherusers

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See [[Other_users_(course)]]

Other users

2011-09-08T22:37:59Z

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{{Moodle 2.0}}
This allows you to associate users to a course without enrolling them. This means they have a role but and can carry out tasks relevant to their permissions but will not appear in the Participants list. An example of this would be assigning a user to a Principal, Manager or Helpdesk type role to provide them access without confusing the participants list.

Note that this page will also provide a list of users who have been assigned a similar role at Site or Category level.

[[Image:block-settings-otherusers.gif|frame|left|Assign Other Link]]
[[Image:assign-otherusers.gif|frame|right|Assign Other Users screen]]

enrol/otherusers

2011-09-08T22:01:38Z

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This allows you to associate users to a course without enrolling them. This means they have a role but and can carry out tasks relevant to their permissions but will not appear in the Participants list. An example of this would be assigning a user to a Principal, Manager or Helpdesk type role to provide them access without confusing the participants list.

Note that this page will also provide a list of users who have been assigned a similar role at Site or Category level.

[[Image:block-settings-otherusers.gif|frame|left|Assign Other Link]]
[[Image:assign-otherusers.gif|frame|right|Assign Other Users screen]]

File:assign-otherusers.gif

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Assign Other Users page displaying users assigned at both a Site level, a category level and a course level.

File:block-settings-otherusers.gif

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The 'Other users' link found within the "Settings - Course administration - Users" menu

enrol/otherusers

2011-09-08T21:57:17Z

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This allows you to associate users to a course without enrolling them. This means they have a role but and can carry out tasks relevant to their permissions but will not appear in the Participants list. An example of this would be assigning a user to a Principal, Manager or Helpdesk type role to provide them access without confusing the participants list.

Note that this page will also provide a list of users who have been assigned a similar role at Site or Category level.

[[Image:block-settings-otherusers.gif|frame|center|Assign Other Link]]
[[Image:assign-otherusers.gif|frame|center|Assign Other Users screen]]

My home

2011-09-08T09:56:37Z

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{{Moodle site - basic structure}}

==The My Moodle (or My home) page==

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.

Users can customise the page blocks to show information relevant for them if they have been provided with the appropriate capability (see below).

[[Image:mymoodlestudent.png|thumb|400px|center|Student My Moodle page]]

==Setting your default home page==
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==
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).

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).

[[Image:mymoodle.png|thumb|400px|center|Setting My Moodle as the default page site-wide]]

=== Sticky blocks in My Moodle===

An administrator can choose which blocks appear on the My Moodle page i.e. [[Sticky blocks|sticky blocks]] as follows:

# Access ''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.

{| class="nicetable"
|-
|[[Image:myMoodle02.png|thumb|250px|center|Accessing My Moodle page]]
|[[Image:myMoodle03.png|thumb|250px|center|Editing My Moodle page]]
|}

===Managing blocks===

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.

==See also==

* [[Development:My Moodle Dev Plans]]
* 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]

[[eu:Nire_Moodle]]
[[fr:Mon Moodle]]
[[de:MyMoodle]]

My home

2011-09-08T09:55:01Z

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{{Moodle site - basic structure}}

==The My Moodle (or My home) page==

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.

Users can customise the page blocks to show information relevant for them if they have been provided with the appropriate capability (see below).

[[Image:mymoodlestudent.png|thumb|400px|center|Student My Moodle page]]

==Setting your default home to==
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==
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).

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).

[[Image:mymoodle.png|thumb|400px|center|Setting My Moodle as the default page site-wide]]

=== Sticky blocks in My Moodle===

An administrator can choose which blocks appear on the My Moodle page i.e. [[Sticky blocks|sticky blocks]] as follows:

# Access ''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.

{| class="nicetable"
|-
|[[Image:myMoodle02.png|thumb|250px|center|Accessing My Moodle page]]
|[[Image:myMoodle03.png|thumb|250px|center|Editing My Moodle page]]
|}

===Managing blocks===

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.

==See also==

* [[Development:My Moodle Dev Plans]]
* 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]

[[eu:Nire_Moodle]]
[[fr:Mon Moodle]]
[[de:MyMoodle]]

Creating a course

2011-09-08T03:58:14Z

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{{Creating a course}}
{{Improve}}

Essentially the heart of a Moodle course is usually divided into sections (Topics or Weeks). The course creation process consists of
#Planning the layout, activities and resources which will best meet the course goals
#Naming sections
#Adding [[Resources]] and [[Activities]] to the sections
#Editing or adding [[Blocks]].
#Testing the course as a student

==Getting started==
First, you will need to [[Log in]] to Moodle, be enrolled in a course in a [[Teacher]]'s [[Roles|role]] and then you can start to use most of the features below. We have some tips if you are having [[Can not log in|trouble logging in]]. Now on to some details, we will have lots of embedded links in the text.

The initial[[Course homepage|course homepage]] is broken down into [[Course sections]]. Teachers build their course by [[Adding resources and activities|adding resources, activities]] and [[Blocks]] to .

[[File:New Moodle Course 2 1.JPG|thumb|center|400px|A new, empty Moodle course on the demo.moodle.org site]]

The example above, a teacher is looking at a new course in edit mode. It has 5 topic sections in the center and there are blocks on both sides of the center column. The sections are empty. The teacher can add resources and activities to the sections, blocks on either side can be deleted, moved or new ones added. Each Moodle site's new course may look different but the elements of activities, resources and block will be there.

==Editing a course==
[[File:Turn editing on button.JPG|left]] 
To add or alter activities or resources a teacher will need to [[Turn editing on|"turn editing on"]] and off with a button on the course homepage. There is also a "Turn editing on" link in the ''Settings > Course administration block''. These buttons and links toggle between on and off.

Note: writing text in Moodle you have a range of [[Formatting options]] including using [[HTML in Moodle]].

===Common editing icons===
When editing is on you will see the following icons:

:[[Image:Edit.gif]] - the edit icon lets you alter/update whatever resource or activity it is next to by taking you to its setup page.

:[[Image:Copy_icon.gif]] - the duplicate icon lets you make a copy of that resource or activity.

:[[Image:Help.gif]] - the help icon will pop-up a relevant help window.

:[[Image:Open.gif]] - the open-eye icon means an item is visible to students. Clicking it will make the item invisible to participants and change the icon to the closed eye.

:[[Image:Closed.gif]] - the closed-eye icon means an item is hidden from students. Clicking it will make the item visible to participants and change the icon to the open eye.

:[[Image:Roles_icon.gif]] - the assign roles icon, jumps to locally assigned roles for the activity.

:[[Image:Right.gif]] - the left icon is used to outdent course elements. There is also a right icon for indenting items.

:[[Image:Move.gif]] - the move icon allows course elements to be moved up or down throughout the course.

:[[Image:Movehere.gif]] - the move here icon appears when moving a course element. It appears only after you've clicked the move icon, and indicates the destination of the item you're moving.

:[[Image:Delete.gif]] - the delete icon will permanently delete something from the course after you confirm a warning on a second page.

:[[Image:Marker.gif]] - the marker icon allows you to make a section current.

:[[Image:One.gif]] - the one icon hides all other sections of the course, showing only this one.

:[[Image:All.gif]] - the all icon redisplays all sections in a course.

==Activity modules==

[[Image:Activity_dropdown.JPG|frame|right|Add an activity drop-down menu]]
There are a number of interactive learning [[Activity | activity modules]] that you may [[Adding_resources_and_activities | add to your course]].

Communication and collaboration may take place using [[Chats]] and [[Forums]] for conversational activities and [[Choices]] to gain group feedback. Adding [[Wikis]] to your courses is an excellent way to allow students to work together on a single piece.

Work can be submitted by students and marked by teachers using [[Assignments]] or [[Workshops]]. Automatic marking can be achieved by using [[Quizzes]]. You can even integrate your Hot Potato quizzes by adding a [[Hotpot]] activity.

Content may be delivered and supported using [[Lesson module]] and [[SCORM]] activities. Key words can be added to [[Glossaries]] by yourself or, if you allow it, your students.

[[Surveys]] and [[Database module|Databases]] are also very powerful additions to any course.

If all of that isn't enough for you then you can also add contributed modules that are not part of the official Moodle release!

==Resources==

[[File:Resources add a menu 20.JPG|frame|left|Add a resource drop-down menu]]

Moodle supports a range of different [[Resources|resource types]] that allow you to include almost any kind of digital content into your courses. These are added with the "Add a resource" dropdown box when editing is turned on.

Adding a [[File]], [[Folder]], [[IMS content package]] or [[URL]] resource may lead to the [[File picker]] when you add content. This will allow you to use existing files located in [[Repositories]] or upload a new resource.

==Blocks==
Each course homepage generally contains blocks on the left and right with the centre column containing the course content. Blocks may be added, hidden, deleted, and moved up, down and left/right when editing is turned on. Examples of blocks can be see in the Getting Starting image above. "Latest News", "Upcoming Events", and "Recent Activity" are blocks.

A [[Blocks (teacher)|wide range of blocks]] exist that can provide additional information or functionality to the learner or teacher. There are both standard blocks that come with Moodle and many contributed blocks developed by Moodlers that an administrator can add to a Moodle site.

The teacher will have a [[Settings block]] and a [[Navigation block]] that sometimes share common pages via their submenu links. Both these block's menu system will change depending upon [[Context]] (what is being done at the moment). Most of our instructions will use the Settings block's menu system.

===Course administration===
[[File:Settings block course administration.JPG|thumb|Settings block, teacher's view|150px|left]]The Course administration menu allows teachers to Edit course settings, manage users( for example [[Students | student]] and [[Teachers | teacher]] enrollments and [[Groups | groups]]), view the course [[Grades]] menu, and access the [[Teacher_forum]]. Some teachers will find the [[Course_backup | backup]], [[Restore]], [[Import_course_data | Import (course data)]] and [[Reset course]] links are handy tools when creating similar courses. Naturally a teacher will want to look at [[Grades#Viewing_Grades | Grades]] and the [[Question bank |question bank]] database, used in [[Quiz | quizzes]]/tests or in the [[Lesson module]].

The links in the Course administration block are only available to teachers of the course. Students will receive their own version of the Settings block which will display a link to their own gradebook and, if enabled, their own course logs. As a teacher, you can change the way students (and other teachers) access and view your course by exploring the [[Course_settings|Edit settings]] option in the Course administration menu.

==General advice==

* Subscribe yourself to all of the [[forum]]s in your course so that you can keep in touch with your class activity.
* Encourage all of the students to fill out their [[Edit profile|user profile]] (including photos) and read them all - this will help provide some context to their later writings and help you to respond in ways that are tailored to their own needs.
* Keep notes to yourself in the private [[Teacher_forum | "Teacher's Forum"]]. This is especially useful when team teaching.
* Use the [[Logs]] link to get access different student activity reports such as Live logs and course Statistics. For example, Live logs is a popup window that updates every sixty seconds and shows the last hour of activity in your course. This is useful to keep open on your desktop all day so you can feel in touch with what's going on in the course.
* Use the [[Recent_activity|Activity Reports]] (next to each name in the list of all people, or from any user profile page). These provide a great way to see what any particular person has been up to in the course.
* Respond quickly to students. Don't leave it for later - do it right away. Not only is it easy to become overwhelmed with the volume that can be generated, but it's a crucial part of building and maintaining a community feel in your course.
* Don't be afraid to experiment: feel free to poke around and change things. It's hard to break anything in a Moodle course, and even if you do it's usually easy to fix it.
* Use the [[Navigation bar|navigation bar]] at the top of each page - this should help remind you where you are and prevent getting lost

== See also ==
*[[Teaching with Moodle]] - inspiring links
*[[Teaching do's and don'ts]] - hints
*[[Moodle manuals]] - A list of links to manuals and books
*[[Using Moodle book]] - A real book you can reprint!
*[[Teaching FAQ]] - common questions
*[http://moodle.tokem.fi/mod/book/view.php?id=5116&chapterid=256 Course teaching checklist]
*[[Teaching tips and tricks]]
*[[Student FAQ]] - students have questions about technology?
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOIlg21BfPg Video tutorial on editing a course home page using AJAX]. [[AJAX]] (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) can move blocks around the page by dragging.

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[[nl:Documentatie voor leraren]]
[[ru:Учителям]]
[[zh:教师文档]]

Course

2011-09-08T02:45:13Z

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{{Managing a Moodle course}}
'''Please refer to [[TOC_with_notes#Managing a Moodle course|these notes]] before editing this page.'''

A course is usually composed of [[Course_sections | sections]] called [[Course_sections#Weekly_format | weeks]] or [[Course_sections#Topic_format | topics]], but it also has special [[Blocks (teacher)| blocks]] which can be added to the [[Course_homepage | home page]] of the course. Typically courses are created by either someone who has Moodle [[Administrator]] or [[Course creator]] privileges. Users with [[Teacher]] rights for a course can edit or add items to that course, as can the administrator and course creator.

Moodle is very robust and can be used in a wide variety of educational, [[Trainer|training]] and informational settings. Often there many ways a course might be constructed. Have fun determining how Moodle will meet your needs.

The purpose of this page is to provide additional links for the new user.

[[Image:Themestandardlogoscreenshotcourse2.jpg|thumb|center|400px|A typical course, similar to demo.moodle.net, as seen by a student]]

== See Also ==
For Administrators or Course Creators
*The [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Category:Administrator general index for an administrator] has many topics that relate to Course.

*To set up a course for the first time see [[Create_your_own_course]]

For Teachers
*For adding content or editing a course see [[Adding/editing_a_course]] or [[Create_your_own_course]]

*The [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Category:Teacher general index for an teacher] has many topics that relate to Course and the things that go in them.

*Some Moodle sites allow users to Request a new course see [[Course_request]]

[[Category:Teacher]]

[[fr:Cours]]

My home

2011-09-08T02:40:49Z

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{{Moodle site - basic structure}}

==The My Moodle (or My home) page==

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.

Users can customise the page blocks to show information relevant for them if they have been provided with the appropriate capability (see below).

[[Image:mymoodlestudent.png|thumb|400px|center|Student My Moodle page]]

==Admin Options==
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).

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).

[[Image:mymoodle.png|thumb|400px|center|Setting My Moodle as the default page site-wide]]

=== Sticky blocks in My Moodle===

An administrator can choose which blocks appear on the My Moodle page i.e. [[Sticky blocks|sticky blocks]] as follows:

# Access ''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.

{| class="nicetable"
|-
|[[Image:myMoodle02.png|thumb|250px|center|Accessing My Moodle page]]
|[[Image:myMoodle03.png|thumb|250px|center|Editing My Moodle page]]
|}

===Managing blocks===

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.

==See also==

* [[Development:My Moodle Dev Plans]]
* 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]

[[eu:Nire_Moodle]]
[[fr:Mon Moodle]]
[[de:MyMoodle]]

My home

2011-09-08T02:39:59Z

Cttxg: /* The My Moodle (or My home) page */

{{Improve}}

{{Moodle site - basic structure}}
My Moodle is a customizable "dashboard" page for providing users with links to their courses and activities within them, such as unread forum posts and upcoming assignments.

==The My Moodle (or My home) page==

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.

Users can customise the page blocks to show information relevant for them if they have been provided with the appropriate capability (see below).

[[Image:mymoodlestudent.png|thumb|400px|center|Student My Moodle page]]

==Admin Options==
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).

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).

[[Image:mymoodle.png|thumb|400px|center|Setting My Moodle as the default page site-wide]]

=== Sticky blocks in My Moodle===

An administrator can choose which blocks appear on the My Moodle page i.e. [[Sticky blocks|sticky blocks]] as follows:

# Access ''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.

{| class="nicetable"
|-
|[[Image:myMoodle02.png|thumb|250px|center|Accessing My Moodle page]]
|[[Image:myMoodle03.png|thumb|250px|center|Editing My Moodle page]]
|}

===Managing blocks===

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.

==See also==

* [[Development:My Moodle Dev Plans]]
* 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]

[[eu:Nire_Moodle]]
[[fr:Mon Moodle]]
[[de:MyMoodle]]

My home

2011-09-08T02:20:13Z

Cttxg: /* Managing blocks */

{{Improve}}

{{Moodle site - basic structure}}
My Moodle is a customizable "dashboard" page for providing users with links to their courses and activities within them, such as unread forum posts and upcoming assignments.

==The My Moodle (or My home) page==

The '''My Moodle''' page is available for all users via the Navigation block. This page displays the courses that a user is associated with and allows them to customise the page blocks to show information relevant for them.

Students see a list of assessment activities due for the paper along with the due date and an indication if they have submitted or not. Teachers see the assessment activities and the due date only.

[[Image:mymoodlestudent.png|thumb|400px|center|Student My Moodle page]]

==Admin Options==
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).

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).

[[Image:mymoodle.png|thumb|400px|center|Setting My Moodle as the default page site-wide]]

=== Sticky blocks in My Moodle===

An administrator can choose which blocks appear on the My Moodle page i.e. [[Sticky blocks|sticky blocks]] as follows:

# Access ''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.

{| class="nicetable"
|-
|[[Image:myMoodle02.png|thumb|250px|center|Accessing My Moodle page]]
|[[Image:myMoodle03.png|thumb|250px|center|Editing My Moodle page]]
|}

===Managing blocks===

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.

==See also==

* [[Development:My Moodle Dev Plans]]
* 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]

[[eu:Nire_Moodle]]
[[fr:Mon Moodle]]
[[de:MyMoodle]]

My home

2011-09-08T02:20:04Z

Cttxg: /* Sticky blocks in My Moodle */

{{Improve}}

{{Moodle site - basic structure}}
My Moodle is a customizable "dashboard" page for providing users with links to their courses and activities within them, such as unread forum posts and upcoming assignments.

==The My Moodle (or My home) page==

The '''My Moodle''' page is available for all users via the Navigation block. This page displays the courses that a user is associated with and allows them to customise the page blocks to show information relevant for them.

Students see a list of assessment activities due for the paper along with the due date and an indication if they have submitted or not. Teachers see the assessment activities and the due date only.

[[Image:mymoodlestudent.png|thumb|400px|center|Student My Moodle page]]

==Admin Options==
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).

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).

[[Image:mymoodle.png|thumb|400px|center|Setting My Moodle as the default page site-wide]]

=== Sticky blocks in My Moodle===

An administrator can choose which blocks appear on the My Moodle page i.e. [[Sticky blocks|sticky blocks]] as follows:

# Access ''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.

{| class="nicetable"
|-
|[[Image:myMoodle02.png|thumb|250px|center|Accessing My Moodle page]]
|[[Image:myMoodle03.png|thumb|250px|center|Editing My Moodle page]]
|}

==Managing blocks==

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.

==See also==

* [[Development:My Moodle Dev Plans]]
* 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]

[[eu:Nire_Moodle]]
[[fr:Mon Moodle]]
[[de:MyMoodle]]

My home

2011-09-08T02:19:51Z

Cttxg: /* Admin Options */

{{Improve}}

{{Moodle site - basic structure}}
My Moodle is a customizable "dashboard" page for providing users with links to their courses and activities within them, such as unread forum posts and upcoming assignments.

==The My Moodle (or My home) page==

The '''My Moodle''' page is available for all users via the Navigation block. This page displays the courses that a user is associated with and allows them to customise the page blocks to show information relevant for them.

Students see a list of assessment activities due for the paper along with the due date and an indication if they have submitted or not. Teachers see the assessment activities and the due date only.

[[Image:mymoodlestudent.png|thumb|400px|center|Student My Moodle page]]

==Admin Options==
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).

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).

[[Image:mymoodle.png|thumb|400px|center|Setting My Moodle as the default page site-wide]]

== Sticky blocks in My Moodle==

An administrator can choose which blocks appear on the My Moodle page i.e. [[Sticky blocks|sticky blocks]] as follows:

# Access ''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.

{| class="nicetable"
|-
|[[Image:myMoodle02.png|thumb|250px|center|Accessing My Moodle page]]
|[[Image:myMoodle03.png|thumb|250px|center|Editing My Moodle page]]
|}

==Managing blocks==

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.

==See also==

* [[Development:My Moodle Dev Plans]]
* 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]

[[eu:Nire_Moodle]]
[[fr:Mon Moodle]]
[[de:MyMoodle]]

My home

2011-09-08T02:18:51Z

Cttxg: /* Admin Options */

{{Improve}}

{{Moodle site - basic structure}}
My Moodle is a customizable "dashboard" page for providing users with links to their courses and activities within them, such as unread forum posts and upcoming assignments.

==The My Moodle (or My home) page==

The '''My Moodle''' page is available for all users via the Navigation block. This page displays the courses that a user is associated with and allows them to customise the page blocks to show information relevant for them.

Students see a list of assessment activities due for the paper along with the due date and an indication if they have submitted or not. Teachers see the assessment activities and the due date only.

[[Image:mymoodlestudent.png|thumb|400px|center|Student My Moodle page]]

====Admin Options====
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).

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).

[[Image:mymoodle.png|thumb|400px|center|Setting My Moodle as the default page site-wide]]

== Sticky blocks in My Moodle==

An administrator can choose which blocks appear on the My Moodle page i.e. [[Sticky blocks|sticky blocks]] as follows:

# Access ''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.

{| class="nicetable"
|-
|[[Image:myMoodle02.png|thumb|250px|center|Accessing My Moodle page]]
|[[Image:myMoodle03.png|thumb|250px|center|Editing My Moodle page]]
|}

==Managing blocks==

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.

==See also==

* [[Development:My Moodle Dev Plans]]
* 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]

[[eu:Nire_Moodle]]
[[fr:Mon Moodle]]
[[de:MyMoodle]]

File:mymoodlestudent.png

2011-09-08T02:17:38Z

Cttxg: Student view of the My home page displaying upcoming assessments and customising blocks.

Student view of the My home page displaying upcoming assessments and customising blocks.

My home

2011-09-08T02:13:33Z

Cttxg: /* Admin Options */

{{Improve}}

{{Moodle site - basic structure}}
My Moodle is a customizable "dashboard" page for providing users with links to their courses and activities within them, such as unread forum posts and upcoming assignments.

==The My Moodle (or My home) page==

The '''My Moodle''' page is available for all users via the Navigation block. This page displays the courses that a user is associated with and allows them to customise the page blocks to show information relevant for them.

Students see a list of assessment activities due for the paper along with the due date and an indication if they have submitted or not. Teachers see the assessment activities and the due date only.

[[Image:mymoodlestudent.png|thumb|400px|center|Student My Moodle page]]

====Admin Options====
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).

[[Image:mymoodle.png|thumb|400px|center|Setting My Moodle as the default page site-wide]]

== Sticky blocks in My Moodle==

An administrator can choose which blocks appear on the My Moodle page i.e. [[Sticky blocks|sticky blocks]] as follows:

# Access ''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.

{| class="nicetable"
|-
|[[Image:myMoodle02.png|thumb|250px|center|Accessing My Moodle page]]
|[[Image:myMoodle03.png|thumb|250px|center|Editing My Moodle page]]
|}

==Managing blocks==

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.

==See also==

* [[Development:My Moodle Dev Plans]]
* 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]

[[eu:Nire_Moodle]]
[[fr:Mon Moodle]]
[[de:MyMoodle]]

My home

2011-09-08T02:13:10Z

Cttxg: /* Admin Options */

{{Improve}}

{{Moodle site - basic structure}}
My Moodle is a customizable "dashboard" page for providing users with links to their courses and activities within them, such as unread forum posts and upcoming assignments.

==The My Moodle (or My home) page==

The '''My Moodle''' page is available for all users via the Navigation block. This page displays the courses that a user is associated with and allows them to customise the page blocks to show information relevant for them.

Students see a list of assessment activities due for the paper along with the due date and an indication if they have submitted or not. Teachers see the assessment activities and the due date only.

[[Image:mymoodlestudent.png|thumb|400px|center|Student My Moodle page]]

====Admin Options====
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).

[[Image:mymoodle03.png|thumb|400px|center|Setting My Moodle as the default page site-wide]]

== Sticky blocks in My Moodle==

An administrator can choose which blocks appear on the My Moodle page i.e. [[Sticky blocks|sticky blocks]] as follows:

# Access ''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.

{| class="nicetable"
|-
|[[Image:myMoodle02.png|thumb|250px|center|Accessing My Moodle page]]
|[[Image:myMoodle03.png|thumb|250px|center|Editing My Moodle page]]
|}

==Managing blocks==

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.

==See also==

* [[Development:My Moodle Dev Plans]]
* 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]

[[eu:Nire_Moodle]]
[[fr:Mon Moodle]]
[[de:MyMoodle]]

My home

2011-09-08T02:12:40Z

Cttxg: /* See also */

{{Improve}}

{{Moodle site - basic structure}}
My Moodle is a customizable "dashboard" page for providing users with links to their courses and activities within them, such as unread forum posts and upcoming assignments.

==The My Moodle (or My home) page==

The '''My Moodle''' page is available for all users via the Navigation block. This page displays the courses that a user is associated with and allows them to customise the page blocks to show information relevant for them.

Students see a list of assessment activities due for the paper along with the due date and an indication if they have submitted or not. Teachers see the assessment activities and the due date only.

[[Image:mymoodlestudent.png|thumb|400px|center|Student My Moodle page]]

====Admin Options====
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).

[[Image:mymoodle.png|thumb|400px|center|Setting My Moodle as the default page site-wide]]

== Sticky blocks in My Moodle==

An administrator can choose which blocks appear on the My Moodle page i.e. [[Sticky blocks|sticky blocks]] as follows:

# Access ''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.

{| class="nicetable"
|-
|[[Image:myMoodle02.png|thumb|250px|center|Accessing My Moodle page]]
|[[Image:myMoodle03.png|thumb|250px|center|Editing My Moodle page]]
|}

==Managing blocks==

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.

==See also==

* [[Development:My Moodle Dev Plans]]
* 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]

[[eu:Nire_Moodle]]
[[fr:Mon Moodle]]
[[de:MyMoodle]]

My home

2011-09-08T02:05:04Z

Cttxg: /* See also */ adding Manageblock capabilities link

{{Improve}}

{{Moodle site - basic structure}}
My Moodle is a customizable "dashboard" page for providing users with links to their courses and activities within them, such as unread forum posts and upcoming assignments.

==The My Moodle (or My home) page==

The '''My Moodle''' page is available for all users via the Navigation block. This page displays the courses that a user is associated with and allows them to customise the page blocks to show information relevant for them.

Students see a list of assessment activities due for the paper along with the due date and an indication if they have submitted or not. Teachers see the assessment activities and the due date only.

[[Image:mymoodlestudent.png|thumb|400px|center|Student My Moodle page]]

====Admin Options====
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).

[[Image:mymoodle.png|thumb|400px|center|Setting My Moodle as the default page site-wide]]

== Sticky blocks in My Moodle==

An administrator can choose which blocks appear on the My Moodle page i.e. [[Sticky blocks|sticky blocks]] as follows:

# Access ''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.

{| class="nicetable"
|-
|[[Image:myMoodle02.png|thumb|250px|center|Accessing My Moodle page]]
|[[Image:myMoodle03.png|thumb|250px|center|Editing My Moodle page]]
|}

==Managing blocks==

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.

==See also==

* [[Development:My Moodle Dev Plans]]
* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=7309 My Moodle forum]
* ManageBlocks capability [https://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Capabilities/moodle/my:manageblocks]

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]

[[eu:Nire_Moodle]]
[[fr:Mon Moodle]]
[[de:MyMoodle]]

My home

2011-09-08T02:04:14Z

Cttxg: /* See also: */

{{Improve}}

{{Moodle site - basic structure}}
My Moodle is a customizable "dashboard" page for providing users with links to their courses and activities within them, such as unread forum posts and upcoming assignments.

==The My Moodle (or My home) page==

The '''My Moodle''' page is available for all users via the Navigation block. This page displays the courses that a user is associated with and allows them to customise the page blocks to show information relevant for them.

Students see a list of assessment activities due for the paper along with the due date and an indication if they have submitted or not. Teachers see the assessment activities and the due date only.

[[Image:mymoodlestudent.png|thumb|400px|center|Student My Moodle page]]

====Admin Options====
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).

[[Image:mymoodle.png|thumb|400px|center|Setting My Moodle as the default page site-wide]]

== Sticky blocks in My Moodle==

An administrator can choose which blocks appear on the My Moodle page i.e. [[Sticky blocks|sticky blocks]] as follows:

# Access ''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.

{| class="nicetable"
|-
|[[Image:myMoodle02.png|thumb|250px|center|Accessing My Moodle page]]
|[[Image:myMoodle03.png|thumb|250px|center|Editing My Moodle page]]
|}

==Managing blocks==

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.

==See also==

* [[Development:My Moodle Dev Plans]]
* 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]

[[eu:Nire_Moodle]]
[[fr:Mon Moodle]]
[[de:MyMoodle]]

My home

2011-09-08T02:03:51Z

Cttxg: /* Enabling My Moodle */ adding moodle 2.0 information

{{Improve}}

{{Moodle site - basic structure}}
My Moodle is a customizable "dashboard" page for providing users with links to their courses and activities within them, such as unread forum posts and upcoming assignments.

==The My Moodle (or My home) page==

The '''My Moodle''' page is available for all users via the Navigation block. This page displays the courses that a user is associated with and allows them to customise the page blocks to show information relevant for them.

Students see a list of assessment activities due for the paper along with the due date and an indication if they have submitted or not. Teachers see the assessment activities and the due date only.

[[Image:mymoodlestudent.png|thumb|400px|center|Student My Moodle page]]

====Admin Options====
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).

[[Image:mymoodle.png|thumb|400px|center|Setting My Moodle as the default page site-wide]]

===See also:===
See: https://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Capabilities/moodle/my:manageblocks

== Sticky blocks in My Moodle==

An administrator can choose which blocks appear on the My Moodle page i.e. [[Sticky blocks|sticky blocks]] as follows:

# Access ''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.

{| class="nicetable"
|-
|[[Image:myMoodle02.png|thumb|250px|center|Accessing My Moodle page]]
|[[Image:myMoodle03.png|thumb|250px|center|Editing My Moodle page]]
|}

==Managing blocks==

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.

==See also==

* [[Development:My Moodle Dev Plans]]
* 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]

[[eu:Nire_Moodle]]
[[fr:Mon Moodle]]
[[de:MyMoodle]]

Navigation

2011-08-25T04:30:55Z

Cttxg:

{{stub}}'''Please refer to [[TOC_with_notes#Navigation|these notes]] before editing this page.'''{{Navigation}}
In Moodle 2.0 onwards, there are two standard blocks on every page:

[[Image:Navigation and Settings.png|frame|right|Navigation and Settings blocks]]
=== Navigation block===
The Navigation block provide easy access to '''view''' various sections of the Moodle site and includes
*My home - a personalised home page displaying links to the courses a user is associated with and activity information (such as unread forum posts and upcoming assignments)
*Site pages - links to site pages and resources from the front page of Moodle
*My profile - quick links allowing a user to view their profile, forums posts, blogs and messages as well as manage their private files
*My courses - lists (by course shortname) and links to courses the user is associated with. Click the course's shortname to view the front page of the course or use the arrows to navigate quickly to a specific section, resource or activity.

'''Note:''' It is recommended that you do not use the Back and Forward buttons on your web browser when using Moodle. Using the Navigation links provided will ensure you always see the latest version of a page (eg a forum with all posts). Be careful to update, save or post any changes you make before moving on to another page to avoid losing your work.

===Settings block===
The Settings block provides you with easy access to '''change''' various settings of a Moodle site. This block shows contextual settings (the settings for a forum when you are viewing it as an editing user) as well as settings for anything else you have permissions for. All users have access to edit their profile and message settings from this block as well as their Blog preferences.

Navigation and Settings in Moodle 2.0 video:

<mediaplayer>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AskwBwk84M</mediaplayer>

==See also==

* [[Development:Navigation 2.0]]
* [[Settings block]]

Navigation

2011-08-25T04:28:28Z

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Navigation

2011-08-25T04:23:22Z

Cttxg: fixing image label!

{{stub}}'''Please refer to [[TOC_with_notes#Navigation|these notes]] before editing this page.'''{{Navigation}}
In Moodle 2.0 onwards, there are two standard blocks on every page:

[[Image:Navigation and Settings.png|frame|right|Navigation and Settings blocks]]
=== Navigation block===
The Navigation block provide easy access to '''view''' various sections of the Moodle site and includes
*My home - a personalised home page displaying links to the courses a user is associated with and activity information (such as unread forum posts and upcoming assignments)
*Site pages - links to site pages and resources from the front page of Moodle
*My profile - quick links allowing a user to view their profile, forums posts, blogs and messages as well as manage their private files
*My courses - lists (by course shortname) and links to courses the user is associated with. Click the course's shortname to view the front page of the course or use the arrows to navigate quickly to a specific section, resource or activity.

===Settings block===
The Settings block provides you with easy access to '''change''' various settings of a Moodle site. This block shows contextual settings (the settings for a forum when you are viewing it as an editing user) as well as settings for anything else you have permissions for. All users have access to edit their profile and message settings from this block as well as their Blog preferences.

Navigation and Settings in Moodle 2.0 video:

<mediaplayer>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AskwBwk84M</mediaplayer>

==See also==

* [[Development:Navigation 2.0]]