Site administration block

The site administration block is seen on the home page of the Moodle site by administrators. This block was reorganized in Moodle 1.7. This page is under development and a linking system to the robust site administration block menu is being worked out.

General Links

• Links in Moodle Docs
  • Notification page
  • Users
  • Courses
  • Location: Location settings, Timezone
  • Language
  • Modules
  • Security
  • Appearance
  • Front Page
  • Server
  • Networking
  • Reports
  • Miscellaneous: Experimental and Moodle global word editor

Notification page

This links to a page with several purposes.

• Cron can be run from this page
• The site's Moodle Version and most recent update file information can be found here
• If a new version of Moodle has been loaded, notification can begin the install process
• There is a Moodle site registration link

Users

Users page has a site admin block section

• Authentication
• Accounts
  • Browse list of users
  • Add new user
  • Upload users
  • User profile fields
• Permissions
  • Define roles
  • Assign global roles
  • User policies

Courses

The site administration block under the courses folder has

• Add/edit courses
• Enrollment (plug menu settings)
• Course request
• Backup settings

Appearance

• Themes folder
  • Theme selector
  • Theme settings