Note: This documentation is for Moodle 2.7. For up-to-date documentation see Blocks.

Blocks

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Blocks are items which may be added to the left or right or centre column of any page in Moodle. They may also be added to the centre of the My Home (My Moodle) page. You can theme the position of blocks in the centre of pages as well.

Any block can be made 'sticky' so that it appears in all the contexts below, such as throughout a course or a particular activity - see Block settings.

Blocks can be placed on the side of the screen (if your theme supports it) via the Dock icons ( Dock to block.png and Block to dock.png ). If a responsive theme (such as 'Clean') is used, blocks will be accessible from the bottom of smaller screens, below the main content.

New feature
in Moodle 2.7!

Note it is also possible to dock blocks when using the Clean theme if desired.

Standard blocks

Available blocks include:

Default block positions for a new course page
Activities
Admin bookmarks
Administration
Blog menu
Blog tags
Calendar
Comments
Community finder
Course completion status
Course overview
Course/site summary
Courses
Feedback
Flickr
HTML
Latest news
Logged in user
Login
Main menu
Mentees block
Messages
My latest badges
My private files
Navigation
Network servers
Online users
People
Quiz results
Random glossary entry
Recent activity
Recent blog entries
Remote RSS feeds
Search forums
Section links
Self completion
Social activities
Tags
Upcoming events
Youtube

There are also many contributed blocks available for download from the plugins database.

See also