Navigation block: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 05:30, 8 August 2012

The navigation block appears on every page of the site. It contains an expanding tree menu which includes My Home, Site Pages, My Profile, and Courses. What appears in the navigation block depends on the role of the user, where they are in the Moodle site, and any settings that have been applied globally.

Overview

The navigation block has links which can be expanded or collapsed.When logged in, a regular user will see the following as default:

My home

This takes the user directly to their personal dashboard, sometimes known as My Moodle

Site pages

This expands to show pages and resources available site wide, for example, user blogs and a calendar. Any items which have been added to the front page, such as resources/activities from the Main Menu block, or the Site News will also appear here. Other items depend on the role of the user, so an administrator will see reports and notes, for instance.

My profile

This expands to allow regular users to view (and, if allowed, edit) their profile, view their forum posts, view and add and blog entries and messages and access their private files, providing these features have been enabled by the administrator. The administrator will also have a link here to Notes and Activity reports.

My courses

This expands to show courses the user is enrolled in. An administrator sees this link as "Courses", which expands to the course categories.

Once inside a course, the block expands to show each section of the course and activities/resources which are in that section.

Navigation block settings

An administrator can change navigation settings, such as the default home page, and whether to show course categories in the navigation, in Settings > Site administration > Appearance > Navigation. See Navigation for details.

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-The navigation block appears on every page of the site. It contains an expanding tree menu which includes My Home, Site Pages, My Profile, and Courses. The navigation block contents depends upon the global settings, context, and the role of the user.
+The navigation block appears on every page of the site. It contains an expanding tree menu which includes My Home, Site Pages, My Profile, and Courses. What appears in the navigation block depends on the role of the user, where they are in the Moodle site, and any settings that have been applied globally.
 ==Overview==
-The navigation block has links which can be expanded or collapsed.   Here are examples of a 2.0 Standard theme's navigation block in collapsed mode and one that has the higher links opened one level.
+The navigation block has links which can be expanded or collapsed.When logged in, a regular user will see the following as default:
-{|
+[[File:navblock1.png]]
-| [[Image:Navigation block col std theme 1.png|frame|center|Navigation block on Front Page]]
-| [[Image:Navigation block expanded std 1.png|frame|center|Site Front Page links expanded]]
-| [[Image:Navigation block courses expanded 1.png|frame|center|Front Page, course links expanded]]
-| [[Image:Navigation block course courses 1.png|frame|center|A course's links expanded]]
-|}
-==Navigation Block settings==
+===My home===
-Site Administrators can configure the site level Navigation Block. Teacher and Student roles have limited options to configure the position of the Navigation Block on their MyMoodle page.
+This takes the user directly to their personal dashboard, sometimes known as [[My Moodle]]
-Log in, go to the course area, Turn Editing On, then select the Edit icon in the Navigation Block. Then configure the following settings.
+===Site pages===
+This expands to show pages and resources available site wide, for example, user blogs and a calendar. Any items which have been added to the front page, such as resources/activities from the Main Menu block, or the Site News will also appear here. Other items depend on the role of the user, so an administrator will see reports and notes, for instance.
-===Allow users to dock this block===
+[[File:sitepages.png]]
-This allows users to free up screen area if they need to, displaying a link to the Navigation Block in a tab at the side.
-===Display categories as links===
+===My profile===
-As long as Display Categories is enabled in ''Site Administration > Appearance > Navigation'' (which it is by default), this setting can be enabled.
+This expands to allow regular users to view (and, if allowed, edit) their profile, view their forum posts, view and add and blog entries and messages and access their private files, providing these features have been enabled by the administrator. The administrator will also have a link here to Notes and Activity reports.
-Where Categories display as links, clicking on those links opens the category page, whereas clicking on the small arrowhead pulls down a further menu of its courses. It may be helpful to induct users to this distinction.
+[[File:viewprofilenavblock.png]]
-===Trimming===
+=== My courses===
+This expands to show courses the user is enrolled in. An administrator sees this link as "Courses", which expands to the course categories.
-Long titles wrap over several lines, and this can affect the readability of a menu.
+Once inside a course, the block expands to show each section of the course and activities/resources which are in that section.
-Enabling trimming removes characters which exceed an optional limit for each menu item. There is an option to remove characters from the beginning, middle, or end of the title.
+[[File:coursenavblock2.png]]
-===Generate Navigation for the following===
+==Navigation block settings==
-The options in this setting allow you to configure how far the menu should expand.
+An administrator can change navigation settings, such as the default home page, and whether to show course categories in the navigation, in ''Settings > Site administration > Appearance > Navigation''. See [[Navigation]] for details.
-;Everything: the menu expands to allow access to any page in any of your course areas.
-;Categories and courses: the menu expands as far as listing links to the course areas in each category.
-;Categories, courses and course structures: the menu expands as far as listing the section titles in each course area (these display unlinked).
-;Categories, courses and course activities: the menu expands to allow access to any page in any of your course areas.
-==See also==
-* [[Navigation]]
 [[eu:Nabigazioa_blokea]]
 [[de:Navigation-Block]]

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