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Course FAQ

2015-10-20T19:14:40Z

Dylanromero: /* How can I make my course home page look more like a web page? */

{{Courses}}
==How do I get rid of the teachers' names on my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you don't want this, uncheck the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==How do I add the names of non-editing teachers to my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will only show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you want to add other roles, check the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==Some of my courses have the course summaries showing but some only have an information icon. Why?==

*Categories which have fewer than ten courses will show the full summary but those with more will only show the information icon. If you want them all to show the full summary then change the value of the Courses with summaries limit (courseswithsummarieslimit) setting in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Courses''.

==I can't upload files to my course. I get the message that my 'filetype cannot be accepted'==
*Make sure you are not trying to upload to the course summary files area in ''Administration>Course administration>Edit settings.''
*This upload area is only for files describing the course and by default only image files are allowed (so that a screenshot may be displayed next to the summary).
*If you wish to upload files into your course, make sure you are first on the main course page itself, not in the settings of the course.

==Why can I only add one hyperlink to a page or label?==

You are probably using Internet Explorer 8 or later. Try either switching to Firefox or click the icon to change to Compatibility mode (which is in effect Internet Explorer 7) and then you will be able to make more than one link.

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to duplicate course activities?==

*Edit teacher role
*Untick 'allow' on capabilities: ** moodle/backup:backuptargetimport ** moodle/restore:restoretargetimport
*See forum post here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=204488#p891807

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to add a particular resource or activity?==
*From ''Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles,'' edit the teacher role and untick "allow" on the capability of the module you wish them not to add - for example ''mod/workshop:addinstance''

==I don't want the new activity chooser. How can I get the old dropdowns back?==

* A teacher can temporarily disable it in ''Administration > Course administration'' and an admin can disable it site-wide via ''Administration > Site administration > Appearance > Ajax and JavaScript''

==Why am I getting dates in the future on a course I have restored?==
*If you restored a course with user data but set the enrolment date for the present time, then logs, forum posts and so on will still be set at the same time distance from the start of the course. So if your original course began in 2010 and participants posted in a forum in 2012, then if you restore your course to begin in 2014, all those posts will have a date of 2016 on them. See MDL-44961

==How can I make my course home page look more like a web page?==

Often when a course has a lot of content, students and teachers find the long scrolling tedious and would prefer a 'neater' appearance with hyperlinks to sections in a similar way to the way pages on websites work.

*See [[Course formats]] for a way to show only one section per page.
*Anchors/section links can help. But the course page can still be long.
*Hiding the activities shortens the list for students, but then they cannot be selected by students.

One method which might be useful is to put the activities into sections which are then made 'unseen' to the student.

'''Basic Example'''
*Set the number of topics in the course setting to 1 more than students will see
**For example, you plan on the students being able to see 6 topics, set it for 7
*Add activities in topic 7, such as a quiz (in our example)
*Get the url of your quiz
**Copy it and keep it somewhere (such as notepad) for later use
*Go back to course admin>settings and change your topic/weeks to 6
**Or one fewer than you had before
*The section with your quiz will no longer be on the page that the student sees
*In another section, make a hyperlink to the quiz using its url
**You can also put it in a topic summary, label or
**as a resource (link to a file or website)

You will find that the quiz is accessible to students even though the section does not physically appear on the course page for the students. You have shortened the page.

'''More advanced example'''
*There is a [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XtHPUh_BaxM youtube video] that gives an example of how to do this (the video is of a Moodle 1.9 course but the principle still applies)
*You can actually set up your whole course using this method
*Set your course to have two topics (or more if you wish)
*Ignore topic 1 - do not place anything in it
*In topic 2, use the resource: [[Page]] to make pages relating to your units of work/topics
*Add all your resources to topic 2
*Copy the resources urls into the relevant webpage as hyperlinks
*In topic 0, the course summary make hyperlinks -or better- images hyperlinked - to each webpage which contains the activities of that unit/topic
*Go back to course settings and set the number of visible topics to 1

The teacher will see the hidden sections as "orphaned" items on their course page. However; the student will only see the top of the page. When they click on a link in the header, they are taken to the hidden webpage resources, where they select the resource or activity they wish. This creates a very short visual page but keeps all the course material within the course.

==I am unable to edit a topic summary: the edit icon doesn't work any more (is not clickable)==

*This often happens if something copied and pasted from another source, such as MS Word has corrupted your topic summary. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194072&parent=845434 This forum post] suggests three possible solutions.

==Where can I find a list of all course resources and activities?==
You can find a list of [[Resources|resources]] (ie static pages and folders etc) here:

<code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/course/resources.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number.

If you wish to see the list of [[Activities|activities]] such as quizzes, then use a URL such as this <code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number.

Change the activity name according to the activity you need to see listed.

==Is it possible to download all files from a course?==

It is possible, but not easy. See the following [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208003#p907058 Moodle forum].

==I get an error message "paging_bar requires a per page value"==

If you go to ''Administration >Site administration > Courses > Miscellaneous > Add/edit courses'' and get the above coding error detected message, then see this [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163731forum thread] on Moodle.org for how to fix it.

==Can I put a course in more than one category?==
No. However, there is a workaround. With the Single activity course format, it is possible to add a URL as the single activity. The URL can be a redirect to a course in a different category, thus giving the appearance of a course in more than one category (thanks to [http://howtomoodle.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/y/7311B9ED44D4A667/674A3269F9138A492018F019E6F15D33 How to Moodle Winter Newsletter]).

==Is there a shortcut URL to a course?==

Try this using the course shortname: URL (Moodlesite)/course/view.php?name=shortname to navigate directly to a course.

Check out the tracker item for clean URL's: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-28030

==What happens to my course content if I change the format from one format to another?==
'''For standard course formats only''': If you change from Topics to Weekly or Weekly to Topics, then the only real difference will be in the titles of the sections. If you change to Social format then you will just have a forum and if you still want access to your other activities you need to add the "Social activities block". If you change to the Single activity format you will only see the activity you chose to display, and your other activities will be "orphaned", not visible to students but available to you in a greyed out section. If you then revert back from Single activity to Topics or Weekly format you will need to un-hide those orphaned sections.

==How can I move items easily on a course with lots of activities?==
See the Tips and tricks section of [[Course homepage]] for a method allowing you to avoid scrolling issues when moving an activity or resource in a busy course.
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kurs FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ de cours]]
[[es:Curso FAQ]]

Course FAQ

2015-10-20T19:13:55Z

Dylanromero: /* I can't upload files to my course. I get the message that my 'filetype cannot be accepted' */

{{Courses}}
==How do I get rid of the teachers' names on my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you don't want this, uncheck the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==How do I add the names of non-editing teachers to my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will only show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you want to add other roles, check the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==Some of my courses have the course summaries showing but some only have an information icon. Why?==

*Categories which have fewer than ten courses will show the full summary but those with more will only show the information icon. If you want them all to show the full summary then change the value of the Courses with summaries limit (courseswithsummarieslimit) setting in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Courses''.

==I can't upload files to my course. I get the message that my 'filetype cannot be accepted'==
*Make sure you are not trying to upload to the course summary files area in ''Administration>Course administration>Edit settings.''
*This upload area is only for files describing the course and by default only image files are allowed (so that a screenshot may be displayed next to the summary).
*If you wish to upload files into your course, make sure you are first on the main course page itself, not in the settings of the course.

==Why can I only add one hyperlink to a page or label?==

You are probably using Internet Explorer 8 or later. Try either switching to Firefox or click the icon to change to Compatibility mode (which is in effect Internet Explorer 7) and then you will be able to make more than one link.

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to duplicate course activities?==

*Edit teacher role
*Untick 'allow' on capabilities: ** moodle/backup:backuptargetimport ** moodle/restore:restoretargetimport
*See forum post here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=204488#p891807

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to add a particular resource or activity?==
*From ''Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles,'' edit the teacher role and untick "allow" on the capability of the module you wish them not to add - for example ''mod/workshop:addinstance''

==I don't want the new activity chooser. How can I get the old dropdowns back?==

* A teacher can temporarily disable it in ''Administration > Course administration'' and an admin can disable it site-wide via ''Administration > Site administration > Appearance > Ajax and JavaScript''

==Why am I getting dates in the future on a course I have restored?==
*If you restored a course with user data but set the enrolment date for the present time, then logs, forum posts and so on will still be set at the same time distance from the start of the course. So if your original course began in 2010 and participants posted in a forum in 2012, then if you restore your course to begin in 2014, all those posts will have a date of 2016 on them. See MDL-44961

==How can I make my course home page look more like a web page?==

Often when a course has a lot of content, students and teachers find the long scrolling tedious and would prefer a 'neater' appearance with hyperlinks to sections in a similar way to the way pages on websites work.

*See [[Course formats]] for a way to show only one section per page.
*Anchors/section links can help. But the course page can still be long.
*Hiding the activities shortens the list for students, but then they can not be selected by students.

One method which might be useful is to put the activities into sections which are then made 'unseen' to the student.

'''Basic Example'''
*Set the number of topics in the course setting to 1 more than students will see
**For example, you plan on the students being able to see 6 topics, set it for 7
*Add activities in topic 7, such as a quiz (in our example)
*Get the url of your quiz
**Copy it and keep it somewhere (such as notepad) for later use
*Go back to course admin>settings and change your topic/weeks to 6
**Or one fewer than you had before
*The section with your quiz will no longer be on the page that the student sees
*In another section, make a hyperlink to the quiz using its url
**You can also put it in a topic summary, label or
**as a resource (link to a file or website)

You will find that the quiz is accessible to students even though the section does not physically appear on the course page for the students. You have shortened the page.

'''More advanced example'''
*There is a [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XtHPUh_BaxM youtube video] that gives an example of how to do this (the video is of a Moodle 1.9 course but the principle still applies)
*You can actually set up your whole course using this method
*Set your course to have two topics (or more if you wish)
*Ignore topic 1 - do not place anything in it
*In topic 2, use the resource: [[Page]] to make pages relating to your units of work/topics
*Add all your resources to topic 2
*Copy the resources urls into the relevant webpage as hyperlinks
*In topic 0, the course summary make hyperlinks -or better- images hyperlinked - to each webpage which contains the activities of that unit/topic
*Go back to course settings and set the number of visible topics to 1

The teacher will see the hidden sections as "orphaned" items on their course page. However; the student will only see the top of the page. When they click on a link in the header, they are taken to the hidden webpage resources, where they select the resource or activity they wish. This creates a very short visual page but keeps all the course material within the course.

==I am unable to edit a topic summary: the edit icon doesn't work any more (is not clickable)==

*This often happens if something copied and pasted from another source, such as MS Word has corrupted your topic summary. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194072&parent=845434 This forum post] suggests three possible solutions.

==Where can I find a list of all course resources and activities?==
You can find a list of [[Resources|resources]] (ie static pages and folders etc) here:

<code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/course/resources.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number.

If you wish to see the list of [[Activities|activities]] such as quizzes, then use a URL such as this <code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number.

Change the activity name according to the activity you need to see listed.

==Is it possible to download all files from a course?==

It is possible, but not easy. See the following [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208003#p907058 Moodle forum].

==I get an error message "paging_bar requires a per page value"==

If you go to ''Administration >Site administration > Courses > Miscellaneous > Add/edit courses'' and get the above coding error detected message, then see this [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163731forum thread] on Moodle.org for how to fix it.

==Can I put a course in more than one category?==
No. However, there is a workaround. With the Single activity course format, it is possible to add a URL as the single activity. The URL can be a redirect to a course in a different category, thus giving the appearance of a course in more than one category (thanks to [http://howtomoodle.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/y/7311B9ED44D4A667/674A3269F9138A492018F019E6F15D33 How to Moodle Winter Newsletter]).

==Is there a shortcut URL to a course?==

Try this using the course shortname: URL (Moodlesite)/course/view.php?name=shortname to navigate directly to a course.

Check out the tracker item for clean URL's: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-28030

==What happens to my course content if I change the format from one format to another?==
'''For standard course formats only''': If you change from Topics to Weekly or Weekly to Topics, then the only real difference will be in the titles of the sections. If you change to Social format then you will just have a forum and if you still want access to your other activities you need to add the "Social activities block". If you change to the Single activity format you will only see the activity you chose to display, and your other activities will be "orphaned", not visible to students but available to you in a greyed out section. If you then revert back from Single activity to Topics or Weekly format you will need to un-hide those orphaned sections.

==How can I move items easily on a course with lots of activities?==
See the Tips and tricks section of [[Course homepage]] for a method allowing you to avoid scrolling issues when moving an activity or resource in a busy course.
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kurs FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ de cours]]
[[es:Curso FAQ]]

Course FAQ

2015-10-20T19:13:36Z

Dylanromero: /* How do I add the names of non-editing teachers to my course descriptions? */

{{Courses}}
==How do I get rid of the teachers' names on my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you don't want this, uncheck the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==How do I add the names of non-editing teachers to my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will only show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you want to add other roles, check the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==Some of my courses have the course summaries showing but some only have an information icon. Why?==

*Categories which have fewer than ten courses will show the full summary but those with more will only show the information icon. If you want them all to show the full summary then change the value of the Courses with summaries limit (courseswithsummarieslimit) setting in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Courses''.

==I can't upload files to my course. I get the message that my 'filetype cannot be accepted'==
*Make sure you are not trying to upload to the course summary files area in''Administration>Course administration>Edit settings.''
*This upload area is only for files describing the course and by default only image files are allowed (so that a screenshot may be displayed next to the summary).
*If you wish to upload files into your course, make sure you are first on the main course page itself, not in the settings of the course.

==Why can I only add one hyperlink to a page or label?==

You are probably using Internet Explorer 8 or later. Try either switching to Firefox or click the icon to change to Compatibility mode (which is in effect Internet Explorer 7) and then you will be able to make more than one link.

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to duplicate course activities?==

*Edit teacher role
*Untick 'allow' on capabilities: ** moodle/backup:backuptargetimport ** moodle/restore:restoretargetimport
*See forum post here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=204488#p891807

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to add a particular resource or activity?==
*From ''Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles,'' edit the teacher role and untick "allow" on the capability of the module you wish them not to add - for example ''mod/workshop:addinstance''

==I don't want the new activity chooser. How can I get the old dropdowns back?==

* A teacher can temporarily disable it in ''Administration > Course administration'' and an admin can disable it site-wide via ''Administration > Site administration > Appearance > Ajax and JavaScript''

==Why am I getting dates in the future on a course I have restored?==
*If you restored a course with user data but set the enrolment date for the present time, then logs, forum posts and so on will still be set at the same time distance from the start of the course. So if your original course began in 2010 and participants posted in a forum in 2012, then if you restore your course to begin in 2014, all those posts will have a date of 2016 on them. See MDL-44961

==How can I make my course home page look more like a web page?==

Often when a course has a lot of content, students and teachers find the long scrolling tedious and would prefer a 'neater' appearance with hyperlinks to sections in a similar way to the way pages on websites work.

*See [[Course formats]] for a way to show only one section per page.
*Anchors/section links can help. But the course page can still be long.
*Hiding the activities shortens the list for students, but then they can not be selected by students.

One method which might be useful is to put the activities into sections which are then made 'unseen' to the student.

'''Basic Example'''
*Set the number of topics in the course setting to 1 more than students will see
**For example, you plan on the students being able to see 6 topics, set it for 7
*Add activities in topic 7, such as a quiz (in our example)
*Get the url of your quiz
**Copy it and keep it somewhere (such as notepad) for later use
*Go back to course admin>settings and change your topic/weeks to 6
**Or one fewer than you had before
*The section with your quiz will no longer be on the page that the student sees
*In another section, make a hyperlink to the quiz using its url
**You can also put it in a topic summary, label or
**as a resource (link to a file or website)

You will find that the quiz is accessible to students even though the section does not physically appear on the course page for the students. You have shortened the page.

'''More advanced example'''
*There is a [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XtHPUh_BaxM youtube video] that gives an example of how to do this (the video is of a Moodle 1.9 course but the principle still applies)
*You can actually set up your whole course using this method
*Set your course to have two topics (or more if you wish)
*Ignore topic 1 - do not place anything in it
*In topic 2, use the resource: [[Page]] to make pages relating to your units of work/topics
*Add all your resources to topic 2
*Copy the resources urls into the relevant webpage as hyperlinks
*In topic 0, the course summary make hyperlinks -or better- images hyperlinked - to each webpage which contains the activities of that unit/topic
*Go back to course settings and set the number of visible topics to 1

The teacher will see the hidden sections as "orphaned" items on their course page. However; the student will only see the top of the page. When they click on a link in the header, they are taken to the hidden webpage resources, where they select the resource or activity they wish. This creates a very short visual page but keeps all the course material within the course.

==I am unable to edit a topic summary: the edit icon doesn't work any more (is not clickable)==

*This often happens if something copied and pasted from another source, such as MS Word has corrupted your topic summary. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194072&parent=845434 This forum post] suggests three possible solutions.

==Where can I find a list of all course resources and activities?==
You can find a list of [[Resources|resources]] (ie static pages and folders etc) here:

<code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/course/resources.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number.

If you wish to see the list of [[Activities|activities]] such as quizzes, then use a URL such as this <code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number.

Change the activity name according to the activity you need to see listed.

==Is it possible to download all files from a course?==

It is possible, but not easy. See the following [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208003#p907058 Moodle forum].

==I get an error message "paging_bar requires a per page value"==

If you go to ''Administration >Site administration > Courses > Miscellaneous > Add/edit courses'' and get the above coding error detected message, then see this [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163731forum thread] on Moodle.org for how to fix it.

==Can I put a course in more than one category?==
No. However, there is a workaround. With the Single activity course format, it is possible to add a URL as the single activity. The URL can be a redirect to a course in a different category, thus giving the appearance of a course in more than one category (thanks to [http://howtomoodle.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/y/7311B9ED44D4A667/674A3269F9138A492018F019E6F15D33 How to Moodle Winter Newsletter]).

==Is there a shortcut URL to a course?==

Try this using the course shortname: URL (Moodlesite)/course/view.php?name=shortname to navigate directly to a course.

Check out the tracker item for clean URL's: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-28030

==What happens to my course content if I change the format from one format to another?==
'''For standard course formats only''': If you change from Topics to Weekly or Weekly to Topics, then the only real difference will be in the titles of the sections. If you change to Social format then you will just have a forum and if you still want access to your other activities you need to add the "Social activities block". If you change to the Single activity format you will only see the activity you chose to display, and your other activities will be "orphaned", not visible to students but available to you in a greyed out section. If you then revert back from Single activity to Topics or Weekly format you will need to un-hide those orphaned sections.

==How can I move items easily on a course with lots of activities?==
See the Tips and tricks section of [[Course homepage]] for a method allowing you to avoid scrolling issues when moving an activity or resource in a busy course.
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kurs FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ de cours]]
[[es:Curso FAQ]]

Course FAQ

2015-10-20T19:12:45Z

Dylanromero: /* What happens to my course content if I change the format from one format to another? */

{{Courses}}
==How do I get rid of the teachers' names on my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you don't want this, uncheck the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==How do I add the names of non-editing teachers to my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will only show names of teachers on course descriptions.If you want to add other roles, check the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==Some of my courses have the course summaries showing but some only have an information icon. Why?==

*Categories which have fewer than ten courses will show the full summary but those with more will only show the information icon. If you want them all to show the full summary then change the value of the Courses with summaries limit (courseswithsummarieslimit) setting in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Courses''.

==I can't upload files to my course. I get the message that my 'filetype cannot be accepted'==
*Make sure you are not trying to upload to the course summary files area in''Administration>Course administration>Edit settings.''
*This upload area is only for files describing the course and by default only image files are allowed (so that a screenshot may be displayed next to the summary).
*If you wish to upload files into your course, make sure you are first on the main course page itself, not in the settings of the course.

==Why can I only add one hyperlink to a page or label?==

You are probably using Internet Explorer 8 or later. Try either switching to Firefox or click the icon to change to Compatibility mode (which is in effect Internet Explorer 7) and then you will be able to make more than one link.

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to duplicate course activities?==

*Edit teacher role
*Untick 'allow' on capabilities: ** moodle/backup:backuptargetimport ** moodle/restore:restoretargetimport
*See forum post here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=204488#p891807

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to add a particular resource or activity?==
*From ''Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles,'' edit the teacher role and untick "allow" on the capability of the module you wish them not to add - for example ''mod/workshop:addinstance''

==I don't want the new activity chooser. How can I get the old dropdowns back?==

* A teacher can temporarily disable it in ''Administration > Course administration'' and an admin can disable it site-wide via ''Administration > Site administration > Appearance > Ajax and JavaScript''

==Why am I getting dates in the future on a course I have restored?==
*If you restored a course with user data but set the enrolment date for the present time, then logs, forum posts and so on will still be set at the same time distance from the start of the course. So if your original course began in 2010 and participants posted in a forum in 2012, then if you restore your course to begin in 2014, all those posts will have a date of 2016 on them. See MDL-44961

==How can I make my course home page look more like a web page?==

Often when a course has a lot of content, students and teachers find the long scrolling tedious and would prefer a 'neater' appearance with hyperlinks to sections in a similar way to the way pages on websites work.

*See [[Course formats]] for a way to show only one section per page.
*Anchors/section links can help. But the course page can still be long.
*Hiding the activities shortens the list for students, but then they can not be selected by students.

One method which might be useful is to put the activities into sections which are then made 'unseen' to the student.

'''Basic Example'''
*Set the number of topics in the course setting to 1 more than students will see
**For example, you plan on the students being able to see 6 topics, set it for 7
*Add activities in topic 7, such as a quiz (in our example)
*Get the url of your quiz
**Copy it and keep it somewhere (such as notepad) for later use
*Go back to course admin>settings and change your topic/weeks to 6
**Or one fewer than you had before
*The section with your quiz will no longer be on the page that the student sees
*In another section, make a hyperlink to the quiz using its url
**You can also put it in a topic summary, label or
**as a resource (link to a file or website)

You will find that the quiz is accessible to students even though the section does not physically appear on the course page for the students. You have shortened the page.

'''More advanced example'''
*There is a [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XtHPUh_BaxM youtube video] that gives an example of how to do this (the video is of a Moodle 1.9 course but the principle still applies)
*You can actually set up your whole course using this method
*Set your course to have two topics (or more if you wish)
*Ignore topic 1 - do not place anything in it
*In topic 2, use the resource: [[Page]] to make pages relating to your units of work/topics
*Add all your resources to topic 2
*Copy the resources urls into the relevant webpage as hyperlinks
*In topic 0, the course summary make hyperlinks -or better- images hyperlinked - to each webpage which contains the activities of that unit/topic
*Go back to course settings and set the number of visible topics to 1

The teacher will see the hidden sections as "orphaned" items on their course page. However; the student will only see the top of the page. When they click on a link in the header, they are taken to the hidden webpage resources, where they select the resource or activity they wish. This creates a very short visual page but keeps all the course material within the course.

==I am unable to edit a topic summary: the edit icon doesn't work any more (is not clickable)==

*This often happens if something copied and pasted from another source, such as MS Word has corrupted your topic summary. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194072&parent=845434 This forum post] suggests three possible solutions.

==Where can I find a list of all course resources and activities?==
You can find a list of [[Resources|resources]] (ie static pages and folders etc) here:

<code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/course/resources.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number.

If you wish to see the list of [[Activities|activities]] such as quizzes, then use a URL such as this <code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number.

Change the activity name according to the activity you need to see listed.

==Is it possible to download all files from a course?==

It is possible, but not easy. See the following [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208003#p907058 Moodle forum].

==I get an error message "paging_bar requires a per page value"==

If you go to ''Administration >Site administration > Courses > Miscellaneous > Add/edit courses'' and get the above coding error detected message, then see this [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163731forum thread] on Moodle.org for how to fix it.

==Can I put a course in more than one category?==
No. However, there is a workaround. With the Single activity course format, it is possible to add a URL as the single activity. The URL can be a redirect to a course in a different category, thus giving the appearance of a course in more than one category (thanks to [http://howtomoodle.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/y/7311B9ED44D4A667/674A3269F9138A492018F019E6F15D33 How to Moodle Winter Newsletter]).

==Is there a shortcut URL to a course?==

Try this using the course shortname: URL (Moodlesite)/course/view.php?name=shortname to navigate directly to a course.

Check out the tracker item for clean URL's: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-28030

==What happens to my course content if I change the format from one format to another?==
'''For standard course formats only''': If you change from Topics to Weekly or Weekly to Topics, then the only real difference will be in the titles of the sections. If you change to Social format then you will just have a forum and if you still want access to your other activities you need to add the "Social activities block". If you change to the Single activity format you will only see the activity you chose to display, and your other activities will be "orphaned", not visible to students but available to you in a greyed out section. If you then revert back from Single activity to Topics or Weekly format you will need to un-hide those orphaned sections.

==How can I move items easily on a course with lots of activities?==
See the Tips and tricks section of [[Course homepage]] for a method allowing you to avoid scrolling issues when moving an activity or resource in a busy course.
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kurs FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ de cours]]
[[es:Curso FAQ]]

Course FAQ

2015-10-20T19:12:12Z

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{{Courses}}
==How do I get rid of the teachers' names on my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you don't want this, uncheck the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==How do I add the names of non-editing teachers to my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will only show names of teachers on course descriptions.If you want to add other roles, check the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==Some of my courses have the course summaries showing but some only have an information icon. Why?==

*Categories which have fewer than ten courses will show the full summary but those with more will only show the information icon. If you want them all to show the full summary then change the value of the Courses with summaries limit (courseswithsummarieslimit) setting in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Courses''.

==I can't upload files to my course. I get the message that my 'filetype cannot be accepted'==
*Make sure you are not trying to upload to the course summary files area in''Administration>Course administration>Edit settings.''
*This upload area is only for files describing the course and by default only image files are allowed (so that a screenshot may be displayed next to the summary).
*If you wish to upload files into your course, make sure you are first on the main course page itself, not in the settings of the course.

==Why can I only add one hyperlink to a page or label?==

You are probably using Internet Explorer 8 or later. Try either switching to Firefox or click the icon to change to Compatibility mode (which is in effect Internet Explorer 7) and then you will be able to make more than one link.

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to duplicate course activities?==

*Edit teacher role
*Untick 'allow' on capabilities: ** moodle/backup:backuptargetimport ** moodle/restore:restoretargetimport
*See forum post here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=204488#p891807

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to add a particular resource or activity?==
*From ''Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles,'' edit the teacher role and untick "allow" on the capability of the module you wish them not to add - for example ''mod/workshop:addinstance''

==I don't want the new activity chooser. How can I get the old dropdowns back?==

* A teacher can temporarily disable it in ''Administration > Course administration'' and an admin can disable it site-wide via ''Administration > Site administration > Appearance > Ajax and JavaScript''

==Why am I getting dates in the future on a course I have restored?==
*If you restored a course with user data but set the enrolment date for the present time, then logs, forum posts and so on will still be set at the same time distance from the start of the course. So if your original course began in 2010 and participants posted in a forum in 2012, then if you restore your course to begin in 2014, all those posts will have a date of 2016 on them. See MDL-44961

==How can I make my course home page look more like a web page?==

Often when a course has a lot of content, students and teachers find the long scrolling tedious and would prefer a 'neater' appearance with hyperlinks to sections in a similar way to the way pages on websites work.

*See [[Course formats]] for a way to show only one section per page.
*Anchors/section links can help. But the course page can still be long.
*Hiding the activities shortens the list for students, but then they can not be selected by students.

One method which might be useful is to put the activities into sections which are then made 'unseen' to the student.

'''Basic Example'''
*Set the number of topics in the course setting to 1 more than students will see
**For example, you plan on the students being able to see 6 topics, set it for 7
*Add activities in topic 7, such as a quiz (in our example)
*Get the url of your quiz
**Copy it and keep it somewhere (such as notepad) for later use
*Go back to course admin>settings and change your topic/weeks to 6
**Or one fewer than you had before
*The section with your quiz will no longer be on the page that the student sees
*In another section, make a hyperlink to the quiz using its url
**You can also put it in a topic summary, label or
**as a resource (link to a file or website)

You will find that the quiz is accessible to students even though the section does not physically appear on the course page for the students. You have shortened the page.

'''More advanced example'''
*There is a [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XtHPUh_BaxM youtube video] that gives an example of how to do this (the video is of a Moodle 1.9 course but the principle still applies)
*You can actually set up your whole course using this method
*Set your course to have two topics (or more if you wish)
*Ignore topic 1 - do not place anything in it
*In topic 2, use the resource: [[Page]] to make pages relating to your units of work/topics
*Add all your resources to topic 2
*Copy the resources urls into the relevant webpage as hyperlinks
*In topic 0, the course summary make hyperlinks -or better- images hyperlinked - to each webpage which contains the activities of that unit/topic
*Go back to course settings and set the number of visible topics to 1

The teacher will see the hidden sections as "orphaned" items on their course page. However; the student will only see the top of the page. When they click on a link in the header, they are taken to the hidden webpage resources, where they select the resource or activity they wish. This creates a very short visual page but keeps all the course material within the course.

==I am unable to edit a topic summary: the edit icon doesn't work any more (is not clickable)==

*This often happens if something copied and pasted from another source, such as MS Word has corrupted your topic summary. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194072&parent=845434 This forum post] suggests three possible solutions.

==Where can I find a list of all course resources and activities?==
You can find a list of [[Resources|resources]] (ie static pages and folders etc) here:

<code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/course/resources.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number.

If you wish to see the list of [[Activities|activities]] such as quizzes, then use a URL such as this <code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number.

Change the activity name according to the activity you need to see listed.

==Is it possible to download all files from a course?==

It is possible, but not easy. See the following [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208003#p907058 Moodle forum].

==I get an error message "paging_bar requires a per page value"==

If you go to ''Administration >Site administration > Courses > Miscellaneous > Add/edit courses'' and get the above coding error detected message, then see this [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163731forum thread] on Moodle.org for how to fix it.

==Can I put a course in more than one category?==
No. However, there is a workaround. With the Single activity course format, it is possible to add a URL as the single activity. The URL can be a redirect to a course in a different category, thus giving the appearance of a course in more than one category (thanks to [http://howtomoodle.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/y/7311B9ED44D4A667/674A3269F9138A492018F019E6F15D33 How to Moodle Winter Newsletter]).

==Is there a shortcut URL to a course?==

Try this using the course shortname: URL (Moodlesite)/course/view.php?name=shortname to navigate directly to a course.

Check out the tracker item for clean URL's: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-28030

==What happens to my course content if I change the format from one format to another?==
(For standard course formats only) If you change from Topics to Weekly or Weekly to Topics, then the only real difference will be in the titles of the sections. If you change to Social format then you will just have a forum and if you still want access to your other activities you need to add the "Social activities block". If you change to the Single activity format you will only see the activity you chose to display, and your other activities will be "orphaned", not visible to students but available to you in a greyed out section. If you then revert back from Single activity to Topics or Weekly format you will need to un-hide those orphaned sections.

==How can I move items easily on a course with lots of activities?==
See the Tips and tricks section of [[Course homepage]] for a method allowing you to avoid scrolling issues when moving an activity or resource in a busy course.
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kurs FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ de cours]]
[[es:Curso FAQ]]

Course FAQ

2015-10-20T19:11:42Z

Dylanromero: /* I get an error message "paging_bar requires a per page value" */

{{Courses}}
==How do I get rid of the teachers' names on my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you don't want this, uncheck the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==How do I add the names of non-editing teachers to my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will only show names of teachers on course descriptions.If you want to add other roles, check the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==Some of my courses have the course summaries showing but some only have an information icon. Why?==

*Categories which have fewer than ten courses will show the full summary but those with more will only show the information icon. If you want them all to show the full summary then change the value of the Courses with summaries limit (courseswithsummarieslimit) setting in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Courses''.

==I can't upload files to my course. I get the message that my 'filetype cannot be accepted'==
*Make sure you are not trying to upload to the course summary files area in''Administration>Course administration>Edit settings.''
*This upload area is only for files describing the course and by default only image files are allowed (so that a screenshot may be displayed next to the summary).
*If you wish to upload files into your course, make sure you are first on the main course page itself, not in the settings of the course.

==Why can I only add one hyperlink to a page or label?==

You are probably using Internet Explorer 8 or later. Try either switching to Firefox or click the icon to change to Compatibility mode (which is in effect Internet Explorer 7) and then you will be able to make more than one link.

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to duplicate course activities?==

*Edit teacher role
*Untick 'allow' on capabilities: ** moodle/backup:backuptargetimport ** moodle/restore:restoretargetimport
*See forum post here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=204488#p891807

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to add a particular resource or activity?==
*From ''Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles,'' edit the teacher role and untick "allow" on the capability of the module you wish them not to add - for example ''mod/workshop:addinstance''

==I don't want the new activity chooser. How can I get the old dropdowns back?==

* A teacher can temporarily disable it in ''Administration > Course administration'' and an admin can disable it site-wide via ''Administration > Site administration > Appearance > Ajax and JavaScript''

==Why am I getting dates in the future on a course I have restored?==
*If you restored a course with user data but set the enrolment date for the present time, then logs, forum posts and so on will still be set at the same time distance from the start of the course. So if your original course began in 2010 and participants posted in a forum in 2012, then if you restore your course to begin in 2014, all those posts will have a date of 2016 on them. See MDL-44961

==How can I make my course home page look more like a web page?==

Often when a course has a lot of content, students and teachers find the long scrolling tedious and would prefer a 'neater' appearance with hyperlinks to sections in a similar way to the way pages on websites work.

*See [[Course formats]] for a way to show only one section per page.
*Anchors/section links can help. But the course page can still be long.
*Hiding the activities shortens the list for students, but then they can not be selected by students.

One method which might be useful is to put the activities into sections which are then made 'unseen' to the student.

'''Basic Example'''
*Set the number of topics in the course setting to 1 more than students will see
**For example, you plan on the students being able to see 6 topics, set it for 7
*Add activities in topic 7, such as a quiz (in our example)
*Get the url of your quiz
**Copy it and keep it somewhere (such as notepad) for later use
*Go back to course admin>settings and change your topic/weeks to 6
**Or one fewer than you had before
*The section with your quiz will no longer be on the page that the student sees
*In another section, make a hyperlink to the quiz using its url
**You can also put it in a topic summary, label or
**as a resource (link to a file or website)

You will find that the quiz is accessible to students even though the section does not physically appear on the course page for the students. You have shortened the page.

'''More advanced example'''
*There is a [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XtHPUh_BaxM youtube video] that gives an example of how to do this (the video is of a Moodle 1.9 course but the principle still applies)
*You can actually set up your whole course using this method
*Set your course to have two topics (or more if you wish)
*Ignore topic 1 - do not place anything in it
*In topic 2, use the resource: [[Page]] to make pages relating to your units of work/topics
*Add all your resources to topic 2
*Copy the resources urls into the relevant webpage as hyperlinks
*In topic 0, the course summary make hyperlinks -or better- images hyperlinked - to each webpage which contains the activities of that unit/topic
*Go back to course settings and set the number of visible topics to 1

The teacher will see the hidden sections as "orphaned" items on their course page. However; the student will only see the top of the page. When they click on a link in the header, they are taken to the hidden webpage resources, where they select the resource or activity they wish. This creates a very short visual page but keeps all the course material within the course.

==I am unable to edit a topic summary: the edit icon doesn't work any more (is not clickable)==

*This often happens if something copied and pasted from another source, such as MS Word has corrupted your topic summary. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194072&parent=845434 This forum post] suggests three possible solutions.

==Where can I find a list of all course resources and activities?==
You can find a list of [[Resources|resources]] (ie static pages and folders etc) here:

<code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/course/resources.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number.

If you wish to see the list of [[Activities|activities]] such as quizzes, then use a URL such as this <code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number.

Change the activity name according to the activity you need to see listed.

==Is it possible to download all files from a course?==

It is possible, but not easy. See the following [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208003#p907058 Moodle forum].

==I get an error message "paging_bar requires a per page value"==

If you go to ''Administration >Site administration > Courses > Miscellaneous > Add/edit courses'' and get the above coding error detected message, then see this [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163731forum thread] on Moodle.org for how to fix it.

==Can I put a course in more than one category?==
No. However, there is a workaround. With the Single activity course format, it is possible to add a URL as the single activity. The URL can be a redirect to a course in a different category, thus giving the appearance of a course in more than one category. (Thanks to [http://howtomoodle.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/y/7311B9ED44D4A667/674A3269F9138A492018F019E6F15D33 How to Moodle Winter Newsletter].)

==Is there a shortcut URL to a course?==

Try this using the course shortname: URL (Moodlesite)/course/view.php?name=shortname to navigate directly to a course.

Check out the tracker item for clean URL's: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-28030

==What happens to my course content if I change the format from one format to another?==
(For standard course formats only) If you change from Topics to Weekly or Weekly to Topics, then the only real difference will be in the titles of the sections. If you change to Social format then you will just have a forum and if you still want access to your other activities you need to add the "Social activities block". If you change to the Single activity format you will only see the activity you chose to display, and your other activities will be "orphaned", not visible to students but available to you in a greyed out section. If you then revert back from Single activity to Topics or Weekly format you will need to un-hide those orphaned sections.

==How can I move items easily on a course with lots of activities?==
See the Tips and tricks section of [[Course homepage]] for a method allowing you to avoid scrolling issues when moving an activity or resource in a busy course.
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kurs FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ de cours]]
[[es:Curso FAQ]]

Course FAQ

2015-10-20T19:11:09Z

Dylanromero: /* Is it possible to download all files from a course? */

{{Courses}}
==How do I get rid of the teachers' names on my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you don't want this, uncheck the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==How do I add the names of non-editing teachers to my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will only show names of teachers on course descriptions.If you want to add other roles, check the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==Some of my courses have the course summaries showing but some only have an information icon. Why?==

*Categories which have fewer than ten courses will show the full summary but those with more will only show the information icon. If you want them all to show the full summary then change the value of the Courses with summaries limit (courseswithsummarieslimit) setting in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Courses''.

==I can't upload files to my course. I get the message that my 'filetype cannot be accepted'==
*Make sure you are not trying to upload to the course summary files area in''Administration>Course administration>Edit settings.''
*This upload area is only for files describing the course and by default only image files are allowed (so that a screenshot may be displayed next to the summary).
*If you wish to upload files into your course, make sure you are first on the main course page itself, not in the settings of the course.

==Why can I only add one hyperlink to a page or label?==

You are probably using Internet Explorer 8 or later. Try either switching to Firefox or click the icon to change to Compatibility mode (which is in effect Internet Explorer 7) and then you will be able to make more than one link.

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to duplicate course activities?==

*Edit teacher role
*Untick 'allow' on capabilities: ** moodle/backup:backuptargetimport ** moodle/restore:restoretargetimport
*See forum post here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=204488#p891807

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to add a particular resource or activity?==
*From ''Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles,'' edit the teacher role and untick "allow" on the capability of the module you wish them not to add - for example ''mod/workshop:addinstance''

==I don't want the new activity chooser. How can I get the old dropdowns back?==

* A teacher can temporarily disable it in ''Administration > Course administration'' and an admin can disable it site-wide via ''Administration > Site administration > Appearance > Ajax and JavaScript''

==Why am I getting dates in the future on a course I have restored?==
*If you restored a course with user data but set the enrolment date for the present time, then logs, forum posts and so on will still be set at the same time distance from the start of the course. So if your original course began in 2010 and participants posted in a forum in 2012, then if you restore your course to begin in 2014, all those posts will have a date of 2016 on them. See MDL-44961

==How can I make my course home page look more like a web page?==

Often when a course has a lot of content, students and teachers find the long scrolling tedious and would prefer a 'neater' appearance with hyperlinks to sections in a similar way to the way pages on websites work.

*See [[Course formats]] for a way to show only one section per page.
*Anchors/section links can help. But the course page can still be long.
*Hiding the activities shortens the list for students, but then they can not be selected by students.

One method which might be useful is to put the activities into sections which are then made 'unseen' to the student.

'''Basic Example'''
*Set the number of topics in the course setting to 1 more than students will see
**For example, you plan on the students being able to see 6 topics, set it for 7
*Add activities in topic 7, such as a quiz (in our example)
*Get the url of your quiz
**Copy it and keep it somewhere (such as notepad) for later use
*Go back to course admin>settings and change your topic/weeks to 6
**Or one fewer than you had before
*The section with your quiz will no longer be on the page that the student sees
*In another section, make a hyperlink to the quiz using its url
**You can also put it in a topic summary, label or
**as a resource (link to a file or website)

You will find that the quiz is accessible to students even though the section does not physically appear on the course page for the students. You have shortened the page.

'''More advanced example'''
*There is a [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XtHPUh_BaxM youtube video] that gives an example of how to do this (the video is of a Moodle 1.9 course but the principle still applies)
*You can actually set up your whole course using this method
*Set your course to have two topics (or more if you wish)
*Ignore topic 1 - do not place anything in it
*In topic 2, use the resource: [[Page]] to make pages relating to your units of work/topics
*Add all your resources to topic 2
*Copy the resources urls into the relevant webpage as hyperlinks
*In topic 0, the course summary make hyperlinks -or better- images hyperlinked - to each webpage which contains the activities of that unit/topic
*Go back to course settings and set the number of visible topics to 1

The teacher will see the hidden sections as "orphaned" items on their course page. However; the student will only see the top of the page. When they click on a link in the header, they are taken to the hidden webpage resources, where they select the resource or activity they wish. This creates a very short visual page but keeps all the course material within the course.

==I am unable to edit a topic summary: the edit icon doesn't work any more (is not clickable)==

*This often happens if something copied and pasted from another source, such as MS Word has corrupted your topic summary. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194072&parent=845434 This forum post] suggests three possible solutions.

==Where can I find a list of all course resources and activities?==
You can find a list of [[Resources|resources]] (ie static pages and folders etc) here:

<code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/course/resources.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number.

If you wish to see the list of [[Activities|activities]] such as quizzes, then use a URL such as this <code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number.

Change the activity name according to the activity you need to see listed.

==Is it possible to download all files from a course?==

It is possible, but not easy. See the following [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208003#p907058 Moodle forum].

==I get an error message "paging_bar requires a per page value"==

If you go to ''Administration >Site administration > Courses > Miscellaneous > Add/edit courses'' and get the above coding error detected message, then see this [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163731 this forum thread] on Moodle.org for how to fix it.

==Can I put a course in more than one category?==
No. However, there is a workaround. With the Single activity course format, it is possible to add a URL as the single activity. The URL can be a redirect to a course in a different category, thus giving the appearance of a course in more than one category. (Thanks to [http://howtomoodle.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/y/7311B9ED44D4A667/674A3269F9138A492018F019E6F15D33 How to Moodle Winter Newsletter].)

==Is there a shortcut URL to a course?==

Try this using the course shortname: URL (Moodlesite)/course/view.php?name=shortname to navigate directly to a course.

Check out the tracker item for clean URL's: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-28030

==What happens to my course content if I change the format from one format to another?==
(For standard course formats only) If you change from Topics to Weekly or Weekly to Topics, then the only real difference will be in the titles of the sections. If you change to Social format then you will just have a forum and if you still want access to your other activities you need to add the "Social activities block". If you change to the Single activity format you will only see the activity you chose to display, and your other activities will be "orphaned", not visible to students but available to you in a greyed out section. If you then revert back from Single activity to Topics or Weekly format you will need to un-hide those orphaned sections.

==How can I move items easily on a course with lots of activities?==
See the Tips and tricks section of [[Course homepage]] for a method allowing you to avoid scrolling issues when moving an activity or resource in a busy course.
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kurs FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ de cours]]
[[es:Curso FAQ]]

Course FAQ

2015-10-20T19:10:13Z

Dylanromero: /* Where can I find a list of all course resources and activities? */

{{Courses}}
==How do I get rid of the teachers' names on my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you don't want this, uncheck the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==How do I add the names of non-editing teachers to my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will only show names of teachers on course descriptions.If you want to add other roles, check the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==Some of my courses have the course summaries showing but some only have an information icon. Why?==

*Categories which have fewer than ten courses will show the full summary but those with more will only show the information icon. If you want them all to show the full summary then change the value of the Courses with summaries limit (courseswithsummarieslimit) setting in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Courses''.

==I can't upload files to my course. I get the message that my 'filetype cannot be accepted'==
*Make sure you are not trying to upload to the course summary files area in''Administration>Course administration>Edit settings.''
*This upload area is only for files describing the course and by default only image files are allowed (so that a screenshot may be displayed next to the summary).
*If you wish to upload files into your course, make sure you are first on the main course page itself, not in the settings of the course.

==Why can I only add one hyperlink to a page or label?==

You are probably using Internet Explorer 8 or later. Try either switching to Firefox or click the icon to change to Compatibility mode (which is in effect Internet Explorer 7) and then you will be able to make more than one link.

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to duplicate course activities?==

*Edit teacher role
*Untick 'allow' on capabilities: ** moodle/backup:backuptargetimport ** moodle/restore:restoretargetimport
*See forum post here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=204488#p891807

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to add a particular resource or activity?==
*From ''Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles,'' edit the teacher role and untick "allow" on the capability of the module you wish them not to add - for example ''mod/workshop:addinstance''

==I don't want the new activity chooser. How can I get the old dropdowns back?==

* A teacher can temporarily disable it in ''Administration > Course administration'' and an admin can disable it site-wide via ''Administration > Site administration > Appearance > Ajax and JavaScript''

==Why am I getting dates in the future on a course I have restored?==
*If you restored a course with user data but set the enrolment date for the present time, then logs, forum posts and so on will still be set at the same time distance from the start of the course. So if your original course began in 2010 and participants posted in a forum in 2012, then if you restore your course to begin in 2014, all those posts will have a date of 2016 on them. See MDL-44961

==How can I make my course home page look more like a web page?==

Often when a course has a lot of content, students and teachers find the long scrolling tedious and would prefer a 'neater' appearance with hyperlinks to sections in a similar way to the way pages on websites work.

*See [[Course formats]] for a way to show only one section per page.
*Anchors/section links can help. But the course page can still be long.
*Hiding the activities shortens the list for students, but then they can not be selected by students.

One method which might be useful is to put the activities into sections which are then made 'unseen' to the student.

'''Basic Example'''
*Set the number of topics in the course setting to 1 more than students will see
**For example, you plan on the students being able to see 6 topics, set it for 7
*Add activities in topic 7, such as a quiz (in our example)
*Get the url of your quiz
**Copy it and keep it somewhere (such as notepad) for later use
*Go back to course admin>settings and change your topic/weeks to 6
**Or one fewer than you had before
*The section with your quiz will no longer be on the page that the student sees
*In another section, make a hyperlink to the quiz using its url
**You can also put it in a topic summary, label or
**as a resource (link to a file or website)

You will find that the quiz is accessible to students even though the section does not physically appear on the course page for the students. You have shortened the page.

'''More advanced example'''
*There is a [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XtHPUh_BaxM youtube video] that gives an example of how to do this (the video is of a Moodle 1.9 course but the principle still applies)
*You can actually set up your whole course using this method
*Set your course to have two topics (or more if you wish)
*Ignore topic 1 - do not place anything in it
*In topic 2, use the resource: [[Page]] to make pages relating to your units of work/topics
*Add all your resources to topic 2
*Copy the resources urls into the relevant webpage as hyperlinks
*In topic 0, the course summary make hyperlinks -or better- images hyperlinked - to each webpage which contains the activities of that unit/topic
*Go back to course settings and set the number of visible topics to 1

The teacher will see the hidden sections as "orphaned" items on their course page. However; the student will only see the top of the page. When they click on a link in the header, they are taken to the hidden webpage resources, where they select the resource or activity they wish. This creates a very short visual page but keeps all the course material within the course.

==I am unable to edit a topic summary: the edit icon doesn't work any more (is not clickable)==

*This often happens if something copied and pasted from another source, such as MS Word has corrupted your topic summary. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194072&parent=845434 This forum post] suggests three possible solutions.

==Where can I find a list of all course resources and activities?==
You can find a list of [[Resources|resources]] (ie static pages and folders etc) here:

<code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/course/resources.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number.

If you wish to see the list of [[Activities|activities]] such as quizzes, then use a URL such as this <code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number.

Change the activity name according to the activity you need to see listed.

==Is it possible to download all files from a course?==

It is possible, but not easy. See http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208003#p907058

==I get an error message "paging_bar requires a per page value"==

If you go to ''Administration >Site administration > Courses > Miscellaneous > Add/edit courses'' and get the above coding error detected message, then see this [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163731 this forum thread] on Moodle.org for how to fix it.

==Can I put a course in more than one category?==
No. However, there is a workaround. With the Single activity course format, it is possible to add a URL as the single activity. The URL can be a redirect to a course in a different category, thus giving the appearance of a course in more than one category. (Thanks to [http://howtomoodle.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/y/7311B9ED44D4A667/674A3269F9138A492018F019E6F15D33 How to Moodle Winter Newsletter].)

==Is there a shortcut URL to a course?==

Try this using the course shortname: URL (Moodlesite)/course/view.php?name=shortname to navigate directly to a course.

Check out the tracker item for clean URL's: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-28030

==What happens to my course content if I change the format from one format to another?==
(For standard course formats only) If you change from Topics to Weekly or Weekly to Topics, then the only real difference will be in the titles of the sections. If you change to Social format then you will just have a forum and if you still want access to your other activities you need to add the "Social activities block". If you change to the Single activity format you will only see the activity you chose to display, and your other activities will be "orphaned", not visible to students but available to you in a greyed out section. If you then revert back from Single activity to Topics or Weekly format you will need to un-hide those orphaned sections.

==How can I move items easily on a course with lots of activities?==
See the Tips and tricks section of [[Course homepage]] for a method allowing you to avoid scrolling issues when moving an activity or resource in a busy course.
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kurs FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ de cours]]
[[es:Curso FAQ]]

Course FAQ

2015-10-20T19:09:40Z

Dylanromero: /* Where can I find a list of all course resources and activities? */

{{Courses}}
==How do I get rid of the teachers' names on my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you don't want this, uncheck the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==How do I add the names of non-editing teachers to my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will only show names of teachers on course descriptions.If you want to add other roles, check the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==Some of my courses have the course summaries showing but some only have an information icon. Why?==

*Categories which have fewer than ten courses will show the full summary but those with more will only show the information icon. If you want them all to show the full summary then change the value of the Courses with summaries limit (courseswithsummarieslimit) setting in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Courses''.

==I can't upload files to my course. I get the message that my 'filetype cannot be accepted'==
*Make sure you are not trying to upload to the course summary files area in''Administration>Course administration>Edit settings.''
*This upload area is only for files describing the course and by default only image files are allowed (so that a screenshot may be displayed next to the summary).
*If you wish to upload files into your course, make sure you are first on the main course page itself, not in the settings of the course.

==Why can I only add one hyperlink to a page or label?==

You are probably using Internet Explorer 8 or later. Try either switching to Firefox or click the icon to change to Compatibility mode (which is in effect Internet Explorer 7) and then you will be able to make more than one link.

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to duplicate course activities?==

*Edit teacher role
*Untick 'allow' on capabilities: ** moodle/backup:backuptargetimport ** moodle/restore:restoretargetimport
*See forum post here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=204488#p891807

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to add a particular resource or activity?==
*From ''Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles,'' edit the teacher role and untick "allow" on the capability of the module you wish them not to add - for example ''mod/workshop:addinstance''

==I don't want the new activity chooser. How can I get the old dropdowns back?==

* A teacher can temporarily disable it in ''Administration > Course administration'' and an admin can disable it site-wide via ''Administration > Site administration > Appearance > Ajax and JavaScript''

==Why am I getting dates in the future on a course I have restored?==
*If you restored a course with user data but set the enrolment date for the present time, then logs, forum posts and so on will still be set at the same time distance from the start of the course. So if your original course began in 2010 and participants posted in a forum in 2012, then if you restore your course to begin in 2014, all those posts will have a date of 2016 on them. See MDL-44961

==How can I make my course home page look more like a web page?==

Often when a course has a lot of content, students and teachers find the long scrolling tedious and would prefer a 'neater' appearance with hyperlinks to sections in a similar way to the way pages on websites work.

*See [[Course formats]] for a way to show only one section per page.
*Anchors/section links can help. But the course page can still be long.
*Hiding the activities shortens the list for students, but then they can not be selected by students.

One method which might be useful is to put the activities into sections which are then made 'unseen' to the student.

'''Basic Example'''
*Set the number of topics in the course setting to 1 more than students will see
**For example, you plan on the students being able to see 6 topics, set it for 7
*Add activities in topic 7, such as a quiz (in our example)
*Get the url of your quiz
**Copy it and keep it somewhere (such as notepad) for later use
*Go back to course admin>settings and change your topic/weeks to 6
**Or one fewer than you had before
*The section with your quiz will no longer be on the page that the student sees
*In another section, make a hyperlink to the quiz using its url
**You can also put it in a topic summary, label or
**as a resource (link to a file or website)

You will find that the quiz is accessible to students even though the section does not physically appear on the course page for the students. You have shortened the page.

'''More advanced example'''
*There is a [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XtHPUh_BaxM youtube video] that gives an example of how to do this (the video is of a Moodle 1.9 course but the principle still applies)
*You can actually set up your whole course using this method
*Set your course to have two topics (or more if you wish)
*Ignore topic 1 - do not place anything in it
*In topic 2, use the resource: [[Page]] to make pages relating to your units of work/topics
*Add all your resources to topic 2
*Copy the resources urls into the relevant webpage as hyperlinks
*In topic 0, the course summary make hyperlinks -or better- images hyperlinked - to each webpage which contains the activities of that unit/topic
*Go back to course settings and set the number of visible topics to 1

The teacher will see the hidden sections as "orphaned" items on their course page. However; the student will only see the top of the page. When they click on a link in the header, they are taken to the hidden webpage resources, where they select the resource or activity they wish. This creates a very short visual page but keeps all the course material within the course.

==I am unable to edit a topic summary: the edit icon doesn't work any more (is not clickable)==

*This often happens if something copied and pasted from another source, such as MS Word has corrupted your topic summary. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194072&parent=845434 This forum post] suggests three possible solutions.

==Where can I find a list of all course resources and activities?==
You can find a list of [[Resources|resources]] (ie static pages and folders etc) here:

<code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/course/resources.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number.

If you wish to see the list of [[Activities|activities]] such as quizzes, then use a URL such as this <code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number,for example http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=115

Change the activity name according to the activity you need to see listed.

==Is it possible to download all files from a course?==

It is possible, but not easy. See http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208003#p907058

==I get an error message "paging_bar requires a per page value"==

If you go to ''Administration >Site administration > Courses > Miscellaneous > Add/edit courses'' and get the above coding error detected message, then see this [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163731 this forum thread] on Moodle.org for how to fix it.

==Can I put a course in more than one category?==
No. However, there is a workaround. With the Single activity course format, it is possible to add a URL as the single activity. The URL can be a redirect to a course in a different category, thus giving the appearance of a course in more than one category. (Thanks to [http://howtomoodle.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/y/7311B9ED44D4A667/674A3269F9138A492018F019E6F15D33 How to Moodle Winter Newsletter].)

==Is there a shortcut URL to a course?==

Try this using the course shortname: URL (Moodlesite)/course/view.php?name=shortname to navigate directly to a course.

Check out the tracker item for clean URL's: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-28030

==What happens to my course content if I change the format from one format to another?==
(For standard course formats only) If you change from Topics to Weekly or Weekly to Topics, then the only real difference will be in the titles of the sections. If you change to Social format then you will just have a forum and if you still want access to your other activities you need to add the "Social activities block". If you change to the Single activity format you will only see the activity you chose to display, and your other activities will be "orphaned", not visible to students but available to you in a greyed out section. If you then revert back from Single activity to Topics or Weekly format you will need to un-hide those orphaned sections.

==How can I move items easily on a course with lots of activities?==
See the Tips and tricks section of [[Course homepage]] for a method allowing you to avoid scrolling issues when moving an activity or resource in a busy course.
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kurs FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ de cours]]
[[es:Curso FAQ]]

Course FAQ

2015-10-20T19:08:40Z

Dylanromero: /* How can I make my course home page look more like a web page? */

{{Courses}}
==How do I get rid of the teachers' names on my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you don't want this, uncheck the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==How do I add the names of non-editing teachers to my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will only show names of teachers on course descriptions.If you want to add other roles, check the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==Some of my courses have the course summaries showing but some only have an information icon. Why?==

*Categories which have fewer than ten courses will show the full summary but those with more will only show the information icon. If you want them all to show the full summary then change the value of the Courses with summaries limit (courseswithsummarieslimit) setting in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Courses''.

==I can't upload files to my course. I get the message that my 'filetype cannot be accepted'==
*Make sure you are not trying to upload to the course summary files area in''Administration>Course administration>Edit settings.''
*This upload area is only for files describing the course and by default only image files are allowed (so that a screenshot may be displayed next to the summary).
*If you wish to upload files into your course, make sure you are first on the main course page itself, not in the settings of the course.

==Why can I only add one hyperlink to a page or label?==

You are probably using Internet Explorer 8 or later. Try either switching to Firefox or click the icon to change to Compatibility mode (which is in effect Internet Explorer 7) and then you will be able to make more than one link.

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to duplicate course activities?==

*Edit teacher role
*Untick 'allow' on capabilities: ** moodle/backup:backuptargetimport ** moodle/restore:restoretargetimport
*See forum post here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=204488#p891807

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to add a particular resource or activity?==
*From ''Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles,'' edit the teacher role and untick "allow" on the capability of the module you wish them not to add - for example ''mod/workshop:addinstance''

==I don't want the new activity chooser. How can I get the old dropdowns back?==

* A teacher can temporarily disable it in ''Administration > Course administration'' and an admin can disable it site-wide via ''Administration > Site administration > Appearance > Ajax and JavaScript''

==Why am I getting dates in the future on a course I have restored?==
*If you restored a course with user data but set the enrolment date for the present time, then logs, forum posts and so on will still be set at the same time distance from the start of the course. So if your original course began in 2010 and participants posted in a forum in 2012, then if you restore your course to begin in 2014, all those posts will have a date of 2016 on them. See MDL-44961

==How can I make my course home page look more like a web page?==

Often when a course has a lot of content, students and teachers find the long scrolling tedious and would prefer a 'neater' appearance with hyperlinks to sections in a similar way to the way pages on websites work.

*See [[Course formats]] for a way to show only one section per page.
*Anchors/section links can help. But the course page can still be long.
*Hiding the activities shortens the list for students, but then they can not be selected by students.

One method which might be useful is to put the activities into sections which are then made 'unseen' to the student.

'''Basic Example'''
*Set the number of topics in the course setting to 1 more than students will see
**For example, you plan on the students being able to see 6 topics, set it for 7
*Add activities in topic 7, such as a quiz (in our example)
*Get the url of your quiz
**Copy it and keep it somewhere (such as notepad) for later use
*Go back to course admin>settings and change your topic/weeks to 6
**Or one fewer than you had before
*The section with your quiz will no longer be on the page that the student sees
*In another section, make a hyperlink to the quiz using its url
**You can also put it in a topic summary, label or
**as a resource (link to a file or website)

You will find that the quiz is accessible to students even though the section does not physically appear on the course page for the students. You have shortened the page.

'''More advanced example'''
*There is a [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XtHPUh_BaxM youtube video] that gives an example of how to do this (the video is of a Moodle 1.9 course but the principle still applies)
*You can actually set up your whole course using this method
*Set your course to have two topics (or more if you wish)
*Ignore topic 1 - do not place anything in it
*In topic 2, use the resource: [[Page]] to make pages relating to your units of work/topics
*Add all your resources to topic 2
*Copy the resources urls into the relevant webpage as hyperlinks
*In topic 0, the course summary make hyperlinks -or better- images hyperlinked - to each webpage which contains the activities of that unit/topic
*Go back to course settings and set the number of visible topics to 1

The teacher will see the hidden sections as "orphaned" items on their course page. However; the student will only see the top of the page. When they click on a link in the header, they are taken to the hidden webpage resources, where they select the resource or activity they wish. This creates a very short visual page but keeps all the course material within the course.

==I am unable to edit a topic summary: the edit icon doesn't work any more (is not clickable)==

*This often happens if something copied and pasted from another source, such as MS Word has corrupted your topic summary. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194072&parent=845434 This forum post] suggests three possible solutions.

==Where can I find a list of all course resources and activities?==
You can find a list of [[Resources|resources]] (ie static pages and folders etc) here:

<code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/course/resources.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number, for example http://school.demo.moodle.net/course/resources.php?id=115.

If you wish to see the list of [[Activities|activities]] such as quizzes, then use a URL such as this <code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number,for example http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=115

Change the activity name according to the activity you need to see listed.

==Is it possible to download all files from a course?==

It is possible, but not easy. See http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208003#p907058

==I get an error message "paging_bar requires a per page value"==

If you go to ''Administration >Site administration > Courses > Miscellaneous > Add/edit courses'' and get the above coding error detected message, then see this [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163731 this forum thread] on Moodle.org for how to fix it.

==Can I put a course in more than one category?==
No. However, there is a workaround. With the Single activity course format, it is possible to add a URL as the single activity. The URL can be a redirect to a course in a different category, thus giving the appearance of a course in more than one category. (Thanks to [http://howtomoodle.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/y/7311B9ED44D4A667/674A3269F9138A492018F019E6F15D33 How to Moodle Winter Newsletter].)

==Is there a shortcut URL to a course?==

Try this using the course shortname: URL (Moodlesite)/course/view.php?name=shortname to navigate directly to a course.

Check out the tracker item for clean URL's: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-28030

==What happens to my course content if I change the format from one format to another?==
(For standard course formats only) If you change from Topics to Weekly or Weekly to Topics, then the only real difference will be in the titles of the sections. If you change to Social format then you will just have a forum and if you still want access to your other activities you need to add the "Social activities block". If you change to the Single activity format you will only see the activity you chose to display, and your other activities will be "orphaned", not visible to students but available to you in a greyed out section. If you then revert back from Single activity to Topics or Weekly format you will need to un-hide those orphaned sections.

==How can I move items easily on a course with lots of activities?==
See the Tips and tricks section of [[Course homepage]] for a method allowing you to avoid scrolling issues when moving an activity or resource in a busy course.
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kurs FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ de cours]]
[[es:Curso FAQ]]

Course FAQ

2015-10-20T19:06:26Z

Dylanromero: /* How can I prevent teachers from being able to add a particular resource or activity? */

{{Courses}}
==How do I get rid of the teachers' names on my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you don't want this, uncheck the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==How do I add the names of non-editing teachers to my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will only show names of teachers on course descriptions.If you want to add other roles, check the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==Some of my courses have the course summaries showing but some only have an information icon. Why?==

*Categories which have fewer than ten courses will show the full summary but those with more will only show the information icon. If you want them all to show the full summary then change the value of the Courses with summaries limit (courseswithsummarieslimit) setting in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Courses''.

==I can't upload files to my course. I get the message that my 'filetype cannot be accepted'==
*Make sure you are not trying to upload to the course summary files area in''Administration>Course administration>Edit settings.''
*This upload area is only for files describing the course and by default only image files are allowed (so that a screenshot may be displayed next to the summary).
*If you wish to upload files into your course, make sure you are first on the main course page itself, not in the settings of the course.

==Why can I only add one hyperlink to a page or label?==

You are probably using Internet Explorer 8 or later. Try either switching to Firefox or click the icon to change to Compatibility mode (which is in effect Internet Explorer 7) and then you will be able to make more than one link.

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to duplicate course activities?==

*Edit teacher role
*Untick 'allow' on capabilities: ** moodle/backup:backuptargetimport ** moodle/restore:restoretargetimport
*See forum post here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=204488#p891807

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to add a particular resource or activity?==
*From ''Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles,'' edit the teacher role and untick "allow" on the capability of the module you wish them not to add - for example ''mod/workshop:addinstance''

==I don't want the new activity chooser. How can I get the old dropdowns back?==

* A teacher can temporarily disable it in ''Administration > Course administration'' and an admin can disable it site-wide via ''Administration > Site administration > Appearance > Ajax and JavaScript''

==Why am I getting dates in the future on a course I have restored?==
*If you restored a course with user data but set the enrolment date for the present time, then logs, forum posts and so on will still be set at the same time distance from the start of the course. So if your original course began in 2010 and participants posted in a forum in 2012, then if you restore your course to begin in 2014, all those posts will have a date of 2016 on them. See MDL-44961

==How can I make my course home page look more like a web page?==

Often when a course has a lot of content, students and teachers find the long scrolling tedious and would prefer a 'neater' appearance with hyperlinks to sections in a similar way to the way pages on websites work.

*See [[Course formats]] for a way to show only one section per page.
*Anchors/section links can help. But the course page can still be long.
*Hiding the activities shortens the list for students, but then they can not be selected by students.

One method which might be useful is to put the activities into sections which are then made 'unseen' to the student.

''Basic Example''
*Set the number of topics in the course setting to 1 more than students will see.
**For example, you plan on the students being able to see 6 topics, set it for 7.
*Add activities in topic 7, such as a quiz (in our example)
*Get the url of your quiz
**Copy it and keep it somewhere (such as notepad) for later use
*Go back to course admin>settings and change your topic/weeks to 6
**Or one fewer than you had before
*The section with your quiz will no longer be on the page that the student sees
*In another section, make a hyperlink to the quiz using its url
**You can also put it in a topic summary, label or
**as a resource (link to a file or website)

You will find that the quiz is accessible to students even though the section does not physically appear on the course page for the students. You have shortened the page.

''More advanced example''
*There is a youtube video that gives an example of how to do this [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XtHPUh_BaxM here]The video is of a Moodle 1.9 course but the principle still applies.
*You can actually set up your whole course using this method.
*Set your course to have two topics (or more if you wish)
*Ignore topic 1 - do not place anything in it.
*In topic 2, use the resource: [[Page]] to make pages relating to your units of work/topics
*Add all your resources to topic 2
*Copy the resources urls into the relevant webpage as hyperlinks
*In topic 0, the course summary make hyperlinks -or better- images hyperlinked - to each webpage which contains the activities of that unit/topic
*Go back to course settings and set the number of visible topics to 1.

The teacher will see the hidden sections as "orphaned" items on their course page. However; the student will only see the top of the page. When they click on a link in the header, they are taken to the hidden webpage resources, where they select the resource or activity they wish. This creates a very short visual page but keeps all the course material within the course.

==I am unable to edit a topic summary: the edit icon doesn't work any more (is not clickable)==

*This often happens if something copied and pasted from another source, such as MS Word has corrupted your topic summary. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194072&parent=845434 This forum post] suggests three possible solutions.

==Where can I find a list of all course resources and activities?==
You can find a list of [[Resources|resources]] (ie static pages and folders etc) here:

<code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/course/resources.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number, for example http://school.demo.moodle.net/course/resources.php?id=115.

If you wish to see the list of [[Activities|activities]] such as quizzes, then use a URL such as this <code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number,for example http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=115

Change the activity name according to the activity you need to see listed.

==Is it possible to download all files from a course?==

It is possible, but not easy. See http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208003#p907058

==I get an error message "paging_bar requires a per page value"==

If you go to ''Administration >Site administration > Courses > Miscellaneous > Add/edit courses'' and get the above coding error detected message, then see this [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163731 this forum thread] on Moodle.org for how to fix it.

==Can I put a course in more than one category?==
No. However, there is a workaround. With the Single activity course format, it is possible to add a URL as the single activity. The URL can be a redirect to a course in a different category, thus giving the appearance of a course in more than one category. (Thanks to [http://howtomoodle.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/y/7311B9ED44D4A667/674A3269F9138A492018F019E6F15D33 How to Moodle Winter Newsletter].)

==Is there a shortcut URL to a course?==

Try this using the course shortname: URL (Moodlesite)/course/view.php?name=shortname to navigate directly to a course.

Check out the tracker item for clean URL's: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-28030

==What happens to my course content if I change the format from one format to another?==
(For standard course formats only) If you change from Topics to Weekly or Weekly to Topics, then the only real difference will be in the titles of the sections. If you change to Social format then you will just have a forum and if you still want access to your other activities you need to add the "Social activities block". If you change to the Single activity format you will only see the activity you chose to display, and your other activities will be "orphaned", not visible to students but available to you in a greyed out section. If you then revert back from Single activity to Topics or Weekly format you will need to un-hide those orphaned sections.

==How can I move items easily on a course with lots of activities?==
See the Tips and tricks section of [[Course homepage]] for a method allowing you to avoid scrolling issues when moving an activity or resource in a busy course.
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kurs FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ de cours]]
[[es:Curso FAQ]]

Course FAQ

2015-10-20T19:06:10Z

Dylanromero: /* How can I prevent teachers from being able to add a particular resource or activity? */

{{Courses}}
==How do I get rid of the teachers' names on my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you don't want this, uncheck the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==How do I add the names of non-editing teachers to my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will only show names of teachers on course descriptions.If you want to add other roles, check the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==Some of my courses have the course summaries showing but some only have an information icon. Why?==

*Categories which have fewer than ten courses will show the full summary but those with more will only show the information icon. If you want them all to show the full summary then change the value of the Courses with summaries limit (courseswithsummarieslimit) setting in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Courses''.

==I can't upload files to my course. I get the message that my 'filetype cannot be accepted'==
*Make sure you are not trying to upload to the course summary files area in''Administration>Course administration>Edit settings.''
*This upload area is only for files describing the course and by default only image files are allowed (so that a screenshot may be displayed next to the summary).
*If you wish to upload files into your course, make sure you are first on the main course page itself, not in the settings of the course.

==Why can I only add one hyperlink to a page or label?==

You are probably using Internet Explorer 8 or later. Try either switching to Firefox or click the icon to change to Compatibility mode (which is in effect Internet Explorer 7) and then you will be able to make more than one link.

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to duplicate course activities?==

*Edit teacher role
*Untick 'allow' on capabilities: ** moodle/backup:backuptargetimport ** moodle/restore:restoretargetimport
*See forum post here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=204488#p891807

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to add a particular resource or activity?==
*From ''Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles,'' edit the teacher role and untick "allow" on the capability of the module you wish them not to add - for example ''mod/workshop:addinstance''.

==I don't want the new activity chooser. How can I get the old dropdowns back?==

* A teacher can temporarily disable it in ''Administration > Course administration'' and an admin can disable it site-wide via ''Administration > Site administration > Appearance > Ajax and JavaScript''

==Why am I getting dates in the future on a course I have restored?==
*If you restored a course with user data but set the enrolment date for the present time, then logs, forum posts and so on will still be set at the same time distance from the start of the course. So if your original course began in 2010 and participants posted in a forum in 2012, then if you restore your course to begin in 2014, all those posts will have a date of 2016 on them. See MDL-44961

==How can I make my course home page look more like a web page?==

Often when a course has a lot of content, students and teachers find the long scrolling tedious and would prefer a 'neater' appearance with hyperlinks to sections in a similar way to the way pages on websites work.

*See [[Course formats]] for a way to show only one section per page.
*Anchors/section links can help. But the course page can still be long.
*Hiding the activities shortens the list for students, but then they can not be selected by students.

One method which might be useful is to put the activities into sections which are then made 'unseen' to the student.

''Basic Example''
*Set the number of topics in the course setting to 1 more than students will see.
**For example, you plan on the students being able to see 6 topics, set it for 7.
*Add activities in topic 7, such as a quiz (in our example)
*Get the url of your quiz
**Copy it and keep it somewhere (such as notepad) for later use
*Go back to course admin>settings and change your topic/weeks to 6
**Or one fewer than you had before
*The section with your quiz will no longer be on the page that the student sees
*In another section, make a hyperlink to the quiz using its url
**You can also put it in a topic summary, label or
**as a resource (link to a file or website)

You will find that the quiz is accessible to students even though the section does not physically appear on the course page for the students. You have shortened the page.

''More advanced example''
*There is a youtube video that gives an example of how to do this [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XtHPUh_BaxM here]The video is of a Moodle 1.9 course but the principle still applies.
*You can actually set up your whole course using this method.
*Set your course to have two topics (or more if you wish)
*Ignore topic 1 - do not place anything in it.
*In topic 2, use the resource: [[Page]] to make pages relating to your units of work/topics
*Add all your resources to topic 2
*Copy the resources urls into the relevant webpage as hyperlinks
*In topic 0, the course summary make hyperlinks -or better- images hyperlinked - to each webpage which contains the activities of that unit/topic
*Go back to course settings and set the number of visible topics to 1.

The teacher will see the hidden sections as "orphaned" items on their course page. However; the student will only see the top of the page. When they click on a link in the header, they are taken to the hidden webpage resources, where they select the resource or activity they wish. This creates a very short visual page but keeps all the course material within the course.

==I am unable to edit a topic summary: the edit icon doesn't work any more (is not clickable)==

*This often happens if something copied and pasted from another source, such as MS Word has corrupted your topic summary. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194072&parent=845434 This forum post] suggests three possible solutions.

==Where can I find a list of all course resources and activities?==
You can find a list of [[Resources|resources]] (ie static pages and folders etc) here:

<code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/course/resources.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number, for example http://school.demo.moodle.net/course/resources.php?id=115.

If you wish to see the list of [[Activities|activities]] such as quizzes, then use a URL such as this <code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number,for example http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=115

Change the activity name according to the activity you need to see listed.

==Is it possible to download all files from a course?==

It is possible, but not easy. See http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208003#p907058

==I get an error message "paging_bar requires a per page value"==

If you go to ''Administration >Site administration > Courses > Miscellaneous > Add/edit courses'' and get the above coding error detected message, then see this [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163731 this forum thread] on Moodle.org for how to fix it.

==Can I put a course in more than one category?==
No. However, there is a workaround. With the Single activity course format, it is possible to add a URL as the single activity. The URL can be a redirect to a course in a different category, thus giving the appearance of a course in more than one category. (Thanks to [http://howtomoodle.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/y/7311B9ED44D4A667/674A3269F9138A492018F019E6F15D33 How to Moodle Winter Newsletter].)

==Is there a shortcut URL to a course?==

Try this using the course shortname: URL (Moodlesite)/course/view.php?name=shortname to navigate directly to a course.

Check out the tracker item for clean URL's: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-28030

==What happens to my course content if I change the format from one format to another?==
(For standard course formats only) If you change from Topics to Weekly or Weekly to Topics, then the only real difference will be in the titles of the sections. If you change to Social format then you will just have a forum and if you still want access to your other activities you need to add the "Social activities block". If you change to the Single activity format you will only see the activity you chose to display, and your other activities will be "orphaned", not visible to students but available to you in a greyed out section. If you then revert back from Single activity to Topics or Weekly format you will need to un-hide those orphaned sections.

==How can I move items easily on a course with lots of activities?==
See the Tips and tricks section of [[Course homepage]] for a method allowing you to avoid scrolling issues when moving an activity or resource in a busy course.
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kurs FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ de cours]]
[[es:Curso FAQ]]

Course FAQ

2015-10-20T19:04:17Z

Dylanromero: /* I can't upload files to my course.I get the message that my 'filetype cannot be accepted' */

{{Courses}}
==How do I get rid of the teachers' names on my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you don't want this, uncheck the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==How do I add the names of non-editing teachers to my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will only show names of teachers on course descriptions.If you want to add other roles, check the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==Some of my courses have the course summaries showing but some only have an information icon. Why?==

*Categories which have fewer than ten courses will show the full summary but those with more will only show the information icon. If you want them all to show the full summary then change the value of the Courses with summaries limit (courseswithsummarieslimit) setting in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Courses''.

==I can't upload files to my course. I get the message that my 'filetype cannot be accepted'==
*Make sure you are not trying to upload to the course summary files area in''Administration>Course administration>Edit settings.''
*This upload area is only for files describing the course and by default only image files are allowed (so that a screenshot may be displayed next to the summary).
*If you wish to upload files into your course, make sure you are first on the main course page itself, not in the settings of the course.

==Why can I only add one hyperlink to a page or label?==

You are probably using Internet Explorer 8 or later. Try either switching to Firefox or click the icon to change to Compatibility mode (which is in effect Internet Explorer 7) and then you will be able to make more than one link.

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to duplicate course activities?==

*Edit teacher role
*Untick 'allow' on capabilities: ** moodle/backup:backuptargetimport ** moodle/restore:restoretargetimport
*See forum post here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=204488#p891807

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to add a particular resource or activity?==
*From ''Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles,'' edit the teacher role and untick "allow" on the capability of the module you wish them not to add - for example ''mod/workshop:addinstance''

==I don't want the new activity chooser. How can I get the old dropdowns back?==

* A teacher can temporarily disable it in ''Administration > Course administration'' and an admin can disable it site-wide via ''Administration > Site administration > Appearance > Ajax and JavaScript''

==Why am I getting dates in the future on a course I have restored?==
*If you restored a course with user data but set the enrolment date for the present time, then logs, forum posts and so on will still be set at the same time distance from the start of the course. So if your original course began in 2010 and participants posted in a forum in 2012, then if you restore your course to begin in 2014, all those posts will have a date of 2016 on them. See MDL-44961

==How can I make my course home page look more like a web page?==

Often when a course has a lot of content, students and teachers find the long scrolling tedious and would prefer a 'neater' appearance with hyperlinks to sections in a similar way to the way pages on websites work.

*See [[Course formats]] for a way to show only one section per page.
*Anchors/section links can help. But the course page can still be long.
*Hiding the activities shortens the list for students, but then they can not be selected by students.

One method which might be useful is to put the activities into sections which are then made 'unseen' to the student.

''Basic Example''
*Set the number of topics in the course setting to 1 more than students will see.
**For example, you plan on the students being able to see 6 topics, set it for 7.
*Add activities in topic 7, such as a quiz (in our example)
*Get the url of your quiz
**Copy it and keep it somewhere (such as notepad) for later use
*Go back to course admin>settings and change your topic/weeks to 6
**Or one fewer than you had before
*The section with your quiz will no longer be on the page that the student sees
*In another section, make a hyperlink to the quiz using its url
**You can also put it in a topic summary, label or
**as a resource (link to a file or website)

You will find that the quiz is accessible to students even though the section does not physically appear on the course page for the students. You have shortened the page.

''More advanced example''
*There is a youtube video that gives an example of how to do this [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XtHPUh_BaxM here]The video is of a Moodle 1.9 course but the principle still applies.
*You can actually set up your whole course using this method.
*Set your course to have two topics (or more if you wish)
*Ignore topic 1 - do not place anything in it.
*In topic 2, use the resource: [[Page]] to make pages relating to your units of work/topics
*Add all your resources to topic 2
*Copy the resources urls into the relevant webpage as hyperlinks
*In topic 0, the course summary make hyperlinks -or better- images hyperlinked - to each webpage which contains the activities of that unit/topic
*Go back to course settings and set the number of visible topics to 1.

The teacher will see the hidden sections as "orphaned" items on their course page. However; the student will only see the top of the page. When they click on a link in the header, they are taken to the hidden webpage resources, where they select the resource or activity they wish. This creates a very short visual page but keeps all the course material within the course.

==I am unable to edit a topic summary: the edit icon doesn't work any more (is not clickable)==

*This often happens if something copied and pasted from another source, such as MS Word has corrupted your topic summary. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194072&parent=845434 This forum post] suggests three possible solutions.

==Where can I find a list of all course resources and activities?==
You can find a list of [[Resources|resources]] (ie static pages and folders etc) here:

<code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/course/resources.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number, for example http://school.demo.moodle.net/course/resources.php?id=115.

If you wish to see the list of [[Activities|activities]] such as quizzes, then use a URL such as this <code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number,for example http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=115

Change the activity name according to the activity you need to see listed.

==Is it possible to download all files from a course?==

It is possible, but not easy. See http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208003#p907058

==I get an error message "paging_bar requires a per page value"==

If you go to ''Administration >Site administration > Courses > Miscellaneous > Add/edit courses'' and get the above coding error detected message, then see this [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163731 this forum thread] on Moodle.org for how to fix it.

==Can I put a course in more than one category?==
No. However, there is a workaround. With the Single activity course format, it is possible to add a URL as the single activity. The URL can be a redirect to a course in a different category, thus giving the appearance of a course in more than one category. (Thanks to [http://howtomoodle.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/y/7311B9ED44D4A667/674A3269F9138A492018F019E6F15D33 How to Moodle Winter Newsletter].)

==Is there a shortcut URL to a course?==

Try this using the course shortname: URL (Moodlesite)/course/view.php?name=shortname to navigate directly to a course.

Check out the tracker item for clean URL's: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-28030

==What happens to my course content if I change the format from one format to another?==
(For standard course formats only) If you change from Topics to Weekly or Weekly to Topics, then the only real difference will be in the titles of the sections. If you change to Social format then you will just have a forum and if you still want access to your other activities you need to add the "Social activities block". If you change to the Single activity format you will only see the activity you chose to display, and your other activities will be "orphaned", not visible to students but available to you in a greyed out section. If you then revert back from Single activity to Topics or Weekly format you will need to un-hide those orphaned sections.

==How can I move items easily on a course with lots of activities?==
See the Tips and tricks section of [[Course homepage]] for a method allowing you to avoid scrolling issues when moving an activity or resource in a busy course.
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kurs FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ de cours]]
[[es:Curso FAQ]]

Course FAQ

2015-10-20T19:02:24Z

Dylanromero: /* How do I add the names of non-editing teachers to my course descriptions? */

{{Courses}}
==How do I get rid of the teachers' names on my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you don't want this, uncheck the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==How do I add the names of non-editing teachers to my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will only show names of teachers on course descriptions.If you want to add other roles, check the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==Some of my courses have the course summaries showing but some only have an information icon. Why?==

*Categories which have fewer than ten courses will show the full summary but those with more will only show the information icon. If you want them all to show the full summary then change the value of the Courses with summaries limit (courseswithsummarieslimit) setting in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Courses''.

==I can't upload files to my course.I get the message that my 'filetype cannot be accepted'==
*Make sure you are not trying to upload to the course summary files area - ''Administration>Course administration>Edit settings.''
*This upload area is only for files describing the course and by default only image files are allowed (so that a screenshot may be displayed next to the summary.)
*If you wish to upload files into your course, make sure you are first on the main course page itself, not in the settings of the course.

==Why can I only add one hyperlink to a page or label?==

You are probably using Internet Explorer 8 or later. Try either switching to Firefox or click the icon to change to Compatibility mode (which is in effect Internet Explorer 7) and then you will be able to make more than one link.

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to duplicate course activities?==

*Edit teacher role
*Untick 'allow' on capabilities: ** moodle/backup:backuptargetimport ** moodle/restore:restoretargetimport
*See forum post here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=204488#p891807

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to add a particular resource or activity?==
*From ''Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles,'' edit the teacher role and untick "allow" on the capability of the module you wish them not to add - for example ''mod/workshop:addinstance''

==I don't want the new activity chooser. How can I get the old dropdowns back?==

* A teacher can temporarily disable it in ''Administration > Course administration'' and an admin can disable it site-wide via ''Administration > Site administration > Appearance > Ajax and JavaScript''

==Why am I getting dates in the future on a course I have restored?==
*If you restored a course with user data but set the enrolment date for the present time, then logs, forum posts and so on will still be set at the same time distance from the start of the course. So if your original course began in 2010 and participants posted in a forum in 2012, then if you restore your course to begin in 2014, all those posts will have a date of 2016 on them. See MDL-44961

==How can I make my course home page look more like a web page?==

Often when a course has a lot of content, students and teachers find the long scrolling tedious and would prefer a 'neater' appearance with hyperlinks to sections in a similar way to the way pages on websites work.

*See [[Course formats]] for a way to show only one section per page.
*Anchors/section links can help. But the course page can still be long.
*Hiding the activities shortens the list for students, but then they can not be selected by students.

One method which might be useful is to put the activities into sections which are then made 'unseen' to the student.

''Basic Example''
*Set the number of topics in the course setting to 1 more than students will see.
**For example, you plan on the students being able to see 6 topics, set it for 7.
*Add activities in topic 7, such as a quiz (in our example)
*Get the url of your quiz
**Copy it and keep it somewhere (such as notepad) for later use
*Go back to course admin>settings and change your topic/weeks to 6
**Or one fewer than you had before
*The section with your quiz will no longer be on the page that the student sees
*In another section, make a hyperlink to the quiz using its url
**You can also put it in a topic summary, label or
**as a resource (link to a file or website)

You will find that the quiz is accessible to students even though the section does not physically appear on the course page for the students. You have shortened the page.

''More advanced example''
*There is a youtube video that gives an example of how to do this [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XtHPUh_BaxM here]The video is of a Moodle 1.9 course but the principle still applies.
*You can actually set up your whole course using this method.
*Set your course to have two topics (or more if you wish)
*Ignore topic 1 - do not place anything in it.
*In topic 2, use the resource: [[Page]] to make pages relating to your units of work/topics
*Add all your resources to topic 2
*Copy the resources urls into the relevant webpage as hyperlinks
*In topic 0, the course summary make hyperlinks -or better- images hyperlinked - to each webpage which contains the activities of that unit/topic
*Go back to course settings and set the number of visible topics to 1.

The teacher will see the hidden sections as "orphaned" items on their course page. However; the student will only see the top of the page. When they click on a link in the header, they are taken to the hidden webpage resources, where they select the resource or activity they wish. This creates a very short visual page but keeps all the course material within the course.

==I am unable to edit a topic summary: the edit icon doesn't work any more (is not clickable)==

*This often happens if something copied and pasted from another source, such as MS Word has corrupted your topic summary. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194072&parent=845434 This forum post] suggests three possible solutions.

==Where can I find a list of all course resources and activities?==
You can find a list of [[Resources|resources]] (ie static pages and folders etc) here:

<code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/course/resources.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number, for example http://school.demo.moodle.net/course/resources.php?id=115.

If you wish to see the list of [[Activities|activities]] such as quizzes, then use a URL such as this <code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number,for example http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=115

Change the activity name according to the activity you need to see listed.

==Is it possible to download all files from a course?==

It is possible, but not easy. See http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208003#p907058

==I get an error message "paging_bar requires a per page value"==

If you go to ''Administration >Site administration > Courses > Miscellaneous > Add/edit courses'' and get the above coding error detected message, then see this [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163731 this forum thread] on Moodle.org for how to fix it.

==Can I put a course in more than one category?==
No. However, there is a workaround. With the Single activity course format, it is possible to add a URL as the single activity. The URL can be a redirect to a course in a different category, thus giving the appearance of a course in more than one category. (Thanks to [http://howtomoodle.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/y/7311B9ED44D4A667/674A3269F9138A492018F019E6F15D33 How to Moodle Winter Newsletter].)

==Is there a shortcut URL to a course?==

Try this using the course shortname: URL (Moodlesite)/course/view.php?name=shortname to navigate directly to a course.

Check out the tracker item for clean URL's: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-28030

==What happens to my course content if I change the format from one format to another?==
(For standard course formats only) If you change from Topics to Weekly or Weekly to Topics, then the only real difference will be in the titles of the sections. If you change to Social format then you will just have a forum and if you still want access to your other activities you need to add the "Social activities block". If you change to the Single activity format you will only see the activity you chose to display, and your other activities will be "orphaned", not visible to students but available to you in a greyed out section. If you then revert back from Single activity to Topics or Weekly format you will need to un-hide those orphaned sections.

==How can I move items easily on a course with lots of activities?==
See the Tips and tricks section of [[Course homepage]] for a method allowing you to avoid scrolling issues when moving an activity or resource in a busy course.
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kurs FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ de cours]]
[[es:Curso FAQ]]

Course FAQ

2015-10-20T19:02:15Z

Dylanromero: /* How do I get rid of the teachers' names on my course descriptions? */

{{Courses}}
==How do I get rid of the teachers' names on my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you don't want this, uncheck the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts.''

==How do I add the names of non-editing teachers to my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will only show names of teachers on course descriptions.If you want to add other roles, check the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts''

==Some of my courses have the course summaries showing but some only have an information icon. Why?==

*Categories which have fewer than ten courses will show the full summary but those with more will only show the information icon. If you want them all to show the full summary then change the value of the Courses with summaries limit (courseswithsummarieslimit) setting in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Courses''.

==I can't upload files to my course.I get the message that my 'filetype cannot be accepted'==
*Make sure you are not trying to upload to the course summary files area - ''Administration>Course administration>Edit settings.''
*This upload area is only for files describing the course and by default only image files are allowed (so that a screenshot may be displayed next to the summary.)
*If you wish to upload files into your course, make sure you are first on the main course page itself, not in the settings of the course.

==Why can I only add one hyperlink to a page or label?==

You are probably using Internet Explorer 8 or later. Try either switching to Firefox or click the icon to change to Compatibility mode (which is in effect Internet Explorer 7) and then you will be able to make more than one link.

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to duplicate course activities?==

*Edit teacher role
*Untick 'allow' on capabilities: ** moodle/backup:backuptargetimport ** moodle/restore:restoretargetimport
*See forum post here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=204488#p891807

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to add a particular resource or activity?==
*From ''Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles,'' edit the teacher role and untick "allow" on the capability of the module you wish them not to add - for example ''mod/workshop:addinstance''

==I don't want the new activity chooser. How can I get the old dropdowns back?==

* A teacher can temporarily disable it in ''Administration > Course administration'' and an admin can disable it site-wide via ''Administration > Site administration > Appearance > Ajax and JavaScript''

==Why am I getting dates in the future on a course I have restored?==
*If you restored a course with user data but set the enrolment date for the present time, then logs, forum posts and so on will still be set at the same time distance from the start of the course. So if your original course began in 2010 and participants posted in a forum in 2012, then if you restore your course to begin in 2014, all those posts will have a date of 2016 on them. See MDL-44961

==How can I make my course home page look more like a web page?==

Often when a course has a lot of content, students and teachers find the long scrolling tedious and would prefer a 'neater' appearance with hyperlinks to sections in a similar way to the way pages on websites work.

*See [[Course formats]] for a way to show only one section per page.
*Anchors/section links can help. But the course page can still be long.
*Hiding the activities shortens the list for students, but then they can not be selected by students.

One method which might be useful is to put the activities into sections which are then made 'unseen' to the student.

''Basic Example''
*Set the number of topics in the course setting to 1 more than students will see.
**For example, you plan on the students being able to see 6 topics, set it for 7.
*Add activities in topic 7, such as a quiz (in our example)
*Get the url of your quiz
**Copy it and keep it somewhere (such as notepad) for later use
*Go back to course admin>settings and change your topic/weeks to 6
**Or one fewer than you had before
*The section with your quiz will no longer be on the page that the student sees
*In another section, make a hyperlink to the quiz using its url
**You can also put it in a topic summary, label or
**as a resource (link to a file or website)

You will find that the quiz is accessible to students even though the section does not physically appear on the course page for the students. You have shortened the page.

''More advanced example''
*There is a youtube video that gives an example of how to do this [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XtHPUh_BaxM here]The video is of a Moodle 1.9 course but the principle still applies.
*You can actually set up your whole course using this method.
*Set your course to have two topics (or more if you wish)
*Ignore topic 1 - do not place anything in it.
*In topic 2, use the resource: [[Page]] to make pages relating to your units of work/topics
*Add all your resources to topic 2
*Copy the resources urls into the relevant webpage as hyperlinks
*In topic 0, the course summary make hyperlinks -or better- images hyperlinked - to each webpage which contains the activities of that unit/topic
*Go back to course settings and set the number of visible topics to 1.

The teacher will see the hidden sections as "orphaned" items on their course page. However; the student will only see the top of the page. When they click on a link in the header, they are taken to the hidden webpage resources, where they select the resource or activity they wish. This creates a very short visual page but keeps all the course material within the course.

==I am unable to edit a topic summary: the edit icon doesn't work any more (is not clickable)==

*This often happens if something copied and pasted from another source, such as MS Word has corrupted your topic summary. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194072&parent=845434 This forum post] suggests three possible solutions.

==Where can I find a list of all course resources and activities?==
You can find a list of [[Resources|resources]] (ie static pages and folders etc) here:

<code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/course/resources.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number, for example http://school.demo.moodle.net/course/resources.php?id=115.

If you wish to see the list of [[Activities|activities]] such as quizzes, then use a URL such as this <code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number,for example http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=115

Change the activity name according to the activity you need to see listed.

==Is it possible to download all files from a course?==

It is possible, but not easy. See http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208003#p907058

==I get an error message "paging_bar requires a per page value"==

If you go to ''Administration >Site administration > Courses > Miscellaneous > Add/edit courses'' and get the above coding error detected message, then see this [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163731 this forum thread] on Moodle.org for how to fix it.

==Can I put a course in more than one category?==
No. However, there is a workaround. With the Single activity course format, it is possible to add a URL as the single activity. The URL can be a redirect to a course in a different category, thus giving the appearance of a course in more than one category. (Thanks to [http://howtomoodle.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/y/7311B9ED44D4A667/674A3269F9138A492018F019E6F15D33 How to Moodle Winter Newsletter].)

==Is there a shortcut URL to a course?==

Try this using the course shortname: URL (Moodlesite)/course/view.php?name=shortname to navigate directly to a course.

Check out the tracker item for clean URL's: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-28030

==What happens to my course content if I change the format from one format to another?==
(For standard course formats only) If you change from Topics to Weekly or Weekly to Topics, then the only real difference will be in the titles of the sections. If you change to Social format then you will just have a forum and if you still want access to your other activities you need to add the "Social activities block". If you change to the Single activity format you will only see the activity you chose to display, and your other activities will be "orphaned", not visible to students but available to you in a greyed out section. If you then revert back from Single activity to Topics or Weekly format you will need to un-hide those orphaned sections.

==How can I move items easily on a course with lots of activities?==
See the Tips and tricks section of [[Course homepage]] for a method allowing you to avoid scrolling issues when moving an activity or resource in a busy course.
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kurs FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ de cours]]
[[es:Curso FAQ]]

Course FAQ

2015-10-20T19:01:56Z

Dylanromero: /* How do I get rid of the teachers' names on my course descriptions? */

{{Courses}}
==How do I get rid of the teachers' names on my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will show names of teachers on course descriptions. If you don't want this, uncheck the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts''

==How do I add the names of non-editing teachers to my course descriptions?==

*By default Moodle will only show names of teachers on course descriptions.If you want to add other roles, check the role in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Course contacts''

==Some of my courses have the course summaries showing but some only have an information icon. Why?==

*Categories which have fewer than ten courses will show the full summary but those with more will only show the information icon. If you want them all to show the full summary then change the value of the Courses with summaries limit (courseswithsummarieslimit) setting in ''Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Courses''.

==I can't upload files to my course.I get the message that my 'filetype cannot be accepted'==
*Make sure you are not trying to upload to the course summary files area - ''Administration>Course administration>Edit settings.''
*This upload area is only for files describing the course and by default only image files are allowed (so that a screenshot may be displayed next to the summary.)
*If you wish to upload files into your course, make sure you are first on the main course page itself, not in the settings of the course.

==Why can I only add one hyperlink to a page or label?==

You are probably using Internet Explorer 8 or later. Try either switching to Firefox or click the icon to change to Compatibility mode (which is in effect Internet Explorer 7) and then you will be able to make more than one link.

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to duplicate course activities?==

*Edit teacher role
*Untick 'allow' on capabilities: ** moodle/backup:backuptargetimport ** moodle/restore:restoretargetimport
*See forum post here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=204488#p891807

==How can I prevent teachers from being able to add a particular resource or activity?==
*From ''Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles,'' edit the teacher role and untick "allow" on the capability of the module you wish them not to add - for example ''mod/workshop:addinstance''

==I don't want the new activity chooser. How can I get the old dropdowns back?==

* A teacher can temporarily disable it in ''Administration > Course administration'' and an admin can disable it site-wide via ''Administration > Site administration > Appearance > Ajax and JavaScript''

==Why am I getting dates in the future on a course I have restored?==
*If you restored a course with user data but set the enrolment date for the present time, then logs, forum posts and so on will still be set at the same time distance from the start of the course. So if your original course began in 2010 and participants posted in a forum in 2012, then if you restore your course to begin in 2014, all those posts will have a date of 2016 on them. See MDL-44961

==How can I make my course home page look more like a web page?==

Often when a course has a lot of content, students and teachers find the long scrolling tedious and would prefer a 'neater' appearance with hyperlinks to sections in a similar way to the way pages on websites work.

*See [[Course formats]] for a way to show only one section per page.
*Anchors/section links can help. But the course page can still be long.
*Hiding the activities shortens the list for students, but then they can not be selected by students.

One method which might be useful is to put the activities into sections which are then made 'unseen' to the student.

''Basic Example''
*Set the number of topics in the course setting to 1 more than students will see.
**For example, you plan on the students being able to see 6 topics, set it for 7.
*Add activities in topic 7, such as a quiz (in our example)
*Get the url of your quiz
**Copy it and keep it somewhere (such as notepad) for later use
*Go back to course admin>settings and change your topic/weeks to 6
**Or one fewer than you had before
*The section with your quiz will no longer be on the page that the student sees
*In another section, make a hyperlink to the quiz using its url
**You can also put it in a topic summary, label or
**as a resource (link to a file or website)

You will find that the quiz is accessible to students even though the section does not physically appear on the course page for the students. You have shortened the page.

''More advanced example''
*There is a youtube video that gives an example of how to do this [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XtHPUh_BaxM here]The video is of a Moodle 1.9 course but the principle still applies.
*You can actually set up your whole course using this method.
*Set your course to have two topics (or more if you wish)
*Ignore topic 1 - do not place anything in it.
*In topic 2, use the resource: [[Page]] to make pages relating to your units of work/topics
*Add all your resources to topic 2
*Copy the resources urls into the relevant webpage as hyperlinks
*In topic 0, the course summary make hyperlinks -or better- images hyperlinked - to each webpage which contains the activities of that unit/topic
*Go back to course settings and set the number of visible topics to 1.

The teacher will see the hidden sections as "orphaned" items on their course page. However; the student will only see the top of the page. When they click on a link in the header, they are taken to the hidden webpage resources, where they select the resource or activity they wish. This creates a very short visual page but keeps all the course material within the course.

==I am unable to edit a topic summary: the edit icon doesn't work any more (is not clickable)==

*This often happens if something copied and pasted from another source, such as MS Word has corrupted your topic summary. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194072&parent=845434 This forum post] suggests three possible solutions.

==Where can I find a list of all course resources and activities?==
You can find a list of [[Resources|resources]] (ie static pages and folders etc) here:

<code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/course/resources.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number, for example http://school.demo.moodle.net/course/resources.php?id=115.

If you wish to see the list of [[Activities|activities]] such as quizzes, then use a URL such as this <code><nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=x</nowiki></code> where x is the course ID number,for example http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/quiz/index.php?id=115

Change the activity name according to the activity you need to see listed.

==Is it possible to download all files from a course?==

It is possible, but not easy. See http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208003#p907058

==I get an error message "paging_bar requires a per page value"==

If you go to ''Administration >Site administration > Courses > Miscellaneous > Add/edit courses'' and get the above coding error detected message, then see this [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163731 this forum thread] on Moodle.org for how to fix it.

==Can I put a course in more than one category?==
No. However, there is a workaround. With the Single activity course format, it is possible to add a URL as the single activity. The URL can be a redirect to a course in a different category, thus giving the appearance of a course in more than one category. (Thanks to [http://howtomoodle.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/y/7311B9ED44D4A667/674A3269F9138A492018F019E6F15D33 How to Moodle Winter Newsletter].)

==Is there a shortcut URL to a course?==

Try this using the course shortname: URL (Moodlesite)/course/view.php?name=shortname to navigate directly to a course.

Check out the tracker item for clean URL's: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-28030

==What happens to my course content if I change the format from one format to another?==
(For standard course formats only) If you change from Topics to Weekly or Weekly to Topics, then the only real difference will be in the titles of the sections. If you change to Social format then you will just have a forum and if you still want access to your other activities you need to add the "Social activities block". If you change to the Single activity format you will only see the activity you chose to display, and your other activities will be "orphaned", not visible to students but available to you in a greyed out section. If you then revert back from Single activity to Topics or Weekly format you will need to un-hide those orphaned sections.

==How can I move items easily on a course with lots of activities?==
See the Tips and tricks section of [[Course homepage]] for a method allowing you to avoid scrolling issues when moving an activity or resource in a busy course.
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kurs FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ de cours]]
[[es:Curso FAQ]]

Course completion FAQ

2015-10-20T18:59:40Z

Dylanromero: /* See also */

{{Course completion}}
==How do I enable course completion?==

See [[Course completion settings]].

==Students have completed the criteria but the report does not show it==

Check in ''Administration > Site administration > Server > Scheduled tasks'' that the task 'Calculate completion data' is running frequently enough, such as every minute.

==I have set up course prerequisites but my students can still access the second course before they have finished the first==
Sorry - the course prerequisites feature does NOT prevent students from accessing courses. It merely prevents the course from being marked as "complete" until they have completed another course.

==How can I prevent my students accessing course 2 before they have completed course 1?==
This is currently not possible using completion settings (see MDL-22648). The usual workaround is to add a final activity at the end of course 1 - such as a quiz - inside which you give the enrolment key to the next course (in the quiz feedback for example). Thus, only those who have completed course 1 can get access to course 2. That doesn't stop them sharing the key however, but you could see any cheaters in the logs.

==I made a mistake and had to erase my student data. Do my students have to redo the activities?==
No. For example, if you set the course completion for All aggregation methods and wanted to reset it to "Any", Moodle will warn you that you are deleting compiled student data. It will delete the student data only for the course completion information. When cron.php runs it will recompile the course completion information.

==My student got an error message when they click on more information in the course completion block==

This may happen at the start of the course when the student has not completed an activity and/or you have selected an aggregation method of All and have not checked off that they have completed the activity.

==Where do my students tell me they have finished the course?==

Did you install the [[Self completion block]]? When they click on the link in that block, that will indicate they think they are done.

==How can I set my course completion to be longer than 30 days after enrolment?==

Currently the dropdown menu only allows you to choose from up to 30 days after enrolment. There is a tracker entry about this here MDL-34678. However, if you are happy editing the database then you can manually change the value as follows:

# Look in the mdl_course_completion_criteria table. The Duration After Enrolment criteria will have the "criteriatype" value of 5 and the number of days is recorded in the column "enrolperiod" in seconds (so #days x 86400).
# Adjust the enrolperiod value and after the next cron run everything will use the new value.

==See also==

Moodle forum discussions:

*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194747 How to set course completion requirements to include a minimum quiz grade?] forum discussion

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kursabschluss FAQ]]
[[es:Finalización del curso FAQ]]

Course completion FAQ

2015-10-20T18:58:00Z

Dylanromero: /* How can I prevent my students accessing course 2 before they have completed course 1? */

{{Course completion}}
==How do I enable course completion?==

See [[Course completion settings]].

==Students have completed the criteria but the report does not show it==

Check in ''Administration > Site administration > Server > Scheduled tasks'' that the task 'Calculate completion data' is running frequently enough, such as every minute.

==I have set up course prerequisites but my students can still access the second course before they have finished the first==
Sorry - the course prerequisites feature does NOT prevent students from accessing courses. It merely prevents the course from being marked as "complete" until they have completed another course.

==How can I prevent my students accessing course 2 before they have completed course 1?==
This is currently not possible using completion settings (see MDL-22648). The usual workaround is to add a final activity at the end of course 1 - such as a quiz - inside which you give the enrolment key to the next course (in the quiz feedback for example). Thus, only those who have completed course 1 can get access to course 2. That doesn't stop them sharing the key however, but you could see any cheaters in the logs.

==I made a mistake and had to erase my student data. Do my students have to redo the activities?==
No. For example, if you set the course completion for All aggregation methods and wanted to reset it to "Any", Moodle will warn you that you are deleting compiled student data. It will delete the student data only for the course completion information. When cron.php runs it will recompile the course completion information.

==My student got an error message when they click on more information in the course completion block==

This may happen at the start of the course when the student has not completed an activity and/or you have selected an aggregation method of All and have not checked off that they have completed the activity.

==Where do my students tell me they have finished the course?==

Did you install the [[Self completion block]]? When they click on the link in that block, that will indicate they think they are done.

==How can I set my course completion to be longer than 30 days after enrolment?==

Currently the dropdown menu only allows you to choose from up to 30 days after enrolment. There is a tracker entry about this here MDL-34678. However, if you are happy editing the database then you can manually change the value as follows:

# Look in the mdl_course_completion_criteria table. The Duration After Enrolment criteria will have the "criteriatype" value of 5 and the number of days is recorded in the column "enrolperiod" in seconds (so #days x 86400).
# Adjust the enrolperiod value and after the next cron run everything will use the new value.

==See also==

*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194747 How to set course completion requirements to include a minimum quiz grade?] forum discussion

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kursabschluss FAQ]]
[[es:Finalización del curso FAQ]]

Cohorts FAQ

2015-10-20T18:55:06Z

Dylanromero: /* Where can I practise with some ready made cohorts? */

{{Grouping users}}

==What is the difference between a cohort and a group?==

A group exists only within a course. You might have a class 10B for example which you want to enroll in course 1 and course 2. The group would need to be created in both courses and its members enrolled separately in both courses. Cohorts are groups of users created by admin which can then be brought in "en masse" to courses. So if class 10B is created as a cohort by admin, then it can be selected in those courses where enrolment via cohort has been enabled. (For more information on creating and using cohorts, see here: Cohorts) Once members of a cohort have been added to a course, they can be included in a group, either by using the "auto create groups" feature or by adding the members to an empty or pre-created group.

Read more in [[Groups FAQ]]

==Can I synch cohorts with LDAP groups?==
This is not currently available as standard. However, the tracker issue for this (MDL-25011) offers a patch which works on versions up to and including 2.3. It has not yet been tested on 2.4.

==Where can I practise with some ready made cohorts?==
#Log into the [http://school.demo.moodle.net Mount Orange School demo site] with username: ''manager'' and password: ''moodle''
#You can access system cohorts from the Administration block > Site Administration > Users > Accounts > Accounts

==I want to enrol a cohort of students into a category==
This is not currently possible. Please see MDL-36951 for the reasoning behind this.

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[es:Cohortes FAQ]]

Cohorts FAQ

2015-10-20T18:54:40Z

Dylanromero: /* Where can I practise with some ready made cohorts? */

{{Grouping users}}

==What is the difference between a cohort and a group?==

A group exists only within a course. You might have a class 10B for example which you want to enroll in course 1 and course 2. The group would need to be created in both courses and its members enrolled separately in both courses. Cohorts are groups of users created by admin which can then be brought in "en masse" to courses. So if class 10B is created as a cohort by admin, then it can be selected in those courses where enrolment via cohort has been enabled. (For more information on creating and using cohorts, see here: Cohorts) Once members of a cohort have been added to a course, they can be included in a group, either by using the "auto create groups" feature or by adding the members to an empty or pre-created group.

Read more in [[Groups FAQ]]

==Can I synch cohorts with LDAP groups?==
This is not currently available as standard. However, the tracker issue for this (MDL-25011) offers a patch which works on versions up to and including 2.3. It has not yet been tested on 2.4.

==Where can I practise with some ready made cohorts?==
Log into the [http://school.demo.moodle.net Mount Orange School demo site] with username: ''manager'' and password: ''moodle''
You can access system cohorts from the Administration block > Site Administration > Users > Accounts > Accounts

==I want to enrol a cohort of students into a category==
This is not currently possible. Please see MDL-36951 for the reasoning behind this.

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[es:Cohortes FAQ]]

Cohorts FAQ

2015-10-20T18:49:44Z

Dylanromero: /* Can I synch cohorts with LDAP groups? */

{{Grouping users}}

==What is the difference between a cohort and a group?==

A group exists only within a course. You might have a class 10B for example which you want to enroll in course 1 and course 2. The group would need to be created in both courses and its members enrolled separately in both courses. Cohorts are groups of users created by admin which can then be brought in "en masse" to courses. So if class 10B is created as a cohort by admin, then it can be selected in those courses where enrolment via cohort has been enabled. (For more information on creating and using cohorts, see here: Cohorts) Once members of a cohort have been added to a course, they can be included in a group, either by using the "auto create groups" feature or by adding the members to an empty or pre-created group.

Read more in [[Groups FAQ]]

==Can I synch cohorts with LDAP groups?==
This is not currently available as standard. However, the tracker issue for this (MDL-25011) offers a patch which works on versions up to and including 2.3. It has not yet been tested on 2.4.

==Where can I practise with some ready made cohorts?==
Log into the [http://school.demo.moodle.net/cohort/index.php Moodle School demo site] with username: ''manager'' and password: ''moodle'' You can access system cohorts from http://school.demo.moodle.net/cohort/index.php

==I want to enrol a cohort of students into a category==
This is not currently possible. Please see MDL-36951 for the reasoning behind this.

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[es:Cohortes FAQ]]

Cohorts FAQ

2015-10-20T18:49:13Z

Dylanromero: /* What is the difference between a cohort and a group? */

{{Grouping users}}

==What is the difference between a cohort and a group?==

A group exists only within a course. You might have a class 10B for example which you want to enroll in course 1 and course 2. The group would need to be created in both courses and its members enrolled separately in both courses. Cohorts are groups of users created by admin which can then be brought in "en masse" to courses. So if class 10B is created as a cohort by admin, then it can be selected in those courses where enrolment via cohort has been enabled. (For more information on creating and using cohorts, see here: Cohorts) Once members of a cohort have been added to a course, they can be included in a group, either by using the "auto create groups" feature or by adding the members to an empty or pre-created group.

Read more in [[Groups FAQ]]

==Can I synch cohorts with LDAP groups?==
This is not currently available as standard. However, the tracker issue for this - MDL-25011- offers a patch which works on versions up to and including 2.3. It has not yet been tested on 2.4.

==Where can I practise with some ready made cohorts?==
Log into the [http://school.demo.moodle.net/cohort/index.php Moodle School demo site] with username: ''manager'' and password: ''moodle'' You can access system cohorts from http://school.demo.moodle.net/cohort/index.php

==I want to enrol a cohort of students into a category==
This is not currently possible. Please see MDL-36951 for the reasoning behind this.

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[es:Cohortes FAQ]]

Choice FAQ

2015-10-20T18:46:45Z

Dylanromero: /* See also */

{{Choice}}

==How can I enable users to participate in a front page choice activity?==

To enable logged-in users to participate in a front page choice activity:
# Click the edit icon of the Choice
# In the Settings block for the Choice, click ''Permissions''
# From the dropdown ''Advanced role override'', choose "authenticated user"
# Set the capability [[Capabilities/mod/choice:choose|mod/choice:choose]] to allow
# Click the 'Save changes' button

==Can I allow users to make more than one choice?==
Yes, since Moodle 2.8. See [[Choice settings]].
==Can I offer users just one option to select?==
Yes!

==Can I use images or other file types as choice options instead of text?==

Yes. To do this, first upload your images or sound files (mp3) or video files to the internet.

#Copy the URL (web address) of the files you want to display.
#Paste it into a text editor like notepad (''This is not essential but makes it easier to add the code'')
#To display an image, add this code either side of your image URL:
<img src="YOUR_IMAGE_.jpg">
#To display a sound or video file -first ensure your site admin has multimedia plugins/filters enabled
#Add this code either side of your sound or video file:
<a href="YOUR_SOUND_FILE.mp3"></a>
#Set up your choice as normal and in the options boxes, paste the relevant code+URL.
'''Beware!''' Double check before you paste - any extra or missing space or bit of code and it won't work.

==See also==

Moodle forum discussions:
*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=735 Choice module forum]

[[Category:FAQ]]
[[de:Abstimmung FAQ]]
[[es:Elección FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ sur le sondage]]

Choice FAQ

2015-10-20T18:45:56Z

Dylanromero: /* Can I use images or other file types as choice options instead of text? */

{{Choice}}

==How can I enable users to participate in a front page choice activity?==

To enable logged-in users to participate in a front page choice activity:
# Click the edit icon of the Choice
# In the Settings block for the Choice, click ''Permissions''
# From the dropdown ''Advanced role override'', choose "authenticated user"
# Set the capability [[Capabilities/mod/choice:choose|mod/choice:choose]] to allow
# Click the 'Save changes' button

==Can I allow users to make more than one choice?==
Yes, since Moodle 2.8. See [[Choice settings]].
==Can I offer users just one option to select?==
Yes!

==Can I use images or other file types as choice options instead of text?==

Yes. To do this, first upload your images or sound files (mp3) or video files to the internet.

#Copy the URL (web address) of the files you want to display.
#Paste it into a text editor like notepad (''This is not essential but makes it easier to add the code'')
#To display an image, add this code either side of your image URL:
<img src="YOUR_IMAGE_.jpg">
#To display a sound or video file -first ensure your site admin has multimedia plugins/filters enabled
#Add this code either side of your sound or video file:
<a href="YOUR_SOUND_FILE.mp3"></a>
#Set up your choice as normal and in the options boxes, paste the relevant code+URL.
'''Beware!''' Double check before you paste - any extra or missing space or bit of code and it won't work.

==See also==

*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=735 Choice module forum]

Using Moodle forum discussions:
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102125 Remove teacher from Choice]

[[Category:FAQ]]
[[de:Abstimmung FAQ]]
[[es:Elección FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ sur le sondage]]

Choice FAQ

2015-10-20T18:45:29Z

Dylanromero: /* How can I enable users to participate in a front page choice activity? */

{{Choice}}

==How can I enable users to participate in a front page choice activity?==

To enable logged-in users to participate in a front page choice activity:
# Click the edit icon of the Choice
# In the Settings block for the Choice, click ''Permissions''
# From the dropdown ''Advanced role override'', choose "authenticated user"
# Set the capability [[Capabilities/mod/choice:choose|mod/choice:choose]] to allow
# Click the 'Save changes' button

==Can I allow users to make more than one choice?==
Yes, since Moodle 2.8. See [[Choice settings]].
==Can I offer users just one option to select?==
Yes!

==Can I use images or other file types as choice options instead of text?==

To do this, first upload your images or sound files (mp3) or video files to the internet.

#Copy the URL (web address) of the files you want to display.
#Paste it into a text editor like notepad (''This is not essential but makes it easier to add the code'')
#To display an image, add this code either side of your image URL:
<img src="YOUR_IMAGE_.jpg">
#To display a sound or video file -first ensure your site admin has multimedia plugins/filters enabled
#Add this code either side of your sound or video file:
<a href="YOUR_SOUND_FILE.mp3"></a>
#Set up your choice as normal and in the options boxes, paste the relevant code+URL.
'''Beware!''' Double check before you paste - any extra or missing space or bit of code and it won't work.

==See also==

*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=735 Choice module forum]

Using Moodle forum discussions:
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102125 Remove teacher from Choice]

[[Category:FAQ]]
[[de:Abstimmung FAQ]]
[[es:Elección FAQ]]
[[fr:FAQ sur le sondage]]

Chat FAQ

2015-10-20T18:42:52Z

Dylanromero: /* How do I configure how long to save past chat sessions? */

{{Chat}}
==How can I enable guests to participate in a chat activity?==

[[Manage roles|Create a visitor role]] with the capability [[Capabilities/mod/chat:chat|mod/chat:chat]] allowed, then create an account and assign it the role of visitor. Guests can then share this visitor account.

The [[Guest role|guest role]] has some special functionality, for example when a guest attempts to participate in a chat, they obtain the message "The chat is not open to guests. Would you like to log in now with a full user account?". Despite the permissions interface suggesting otherwise, it's not possible to modify the guest role to allow guests to participate in chat activities.

==How can I use audio chat?==

Moodle itself does not yet include an audio chat solution, due to the large server requirements to implement a standalone solution.

However, there is a choice of free third party modules that you can install into your Moodle to achieve this:

#Big Blue Button: FREE audio and video conferencing http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=mod_bigbluebuttonbn
#OpenMeetings: FREE full audio/video conferencing http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/

==How can I restrict Chat so certain users cannot access it?==

Follow the steps below to create a new role - such as "NoChat" and apply it in the system context to the student(s) you want to prevent from chatting:

#Go to ''Settings > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Define Roles''
#Click ''Add a new role'' - name it for example "NoChat"
#In the context types, select "system"
#Type "chat" in the filter box
#Set the button for Access a Chat room (''mod/chat:chat'') to ''Prohibit''and save
#Go to ''Settings > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Assign system roles''
#Click on the new "NoChat" role and assign your chosen student(s) this role
#When they try to go into a chat room they will get a message that they cannot access the Chat

==How do I configure how long to save past chat sessions?==

On the ''Chat Setting''s page, navigate to the ''Chat sessions'' section, and choose how long to save sessions from the ''Save past sessions'' drop-down menu.

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=118 Chat module forum]

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Chat FAQ]]
[[es:Chat FAQ]]

Chat FAQ

2015-10-20T18:42:23Z

Dylanromero: /* How can I restrict Chat so certain users cannot access it? */

{{Chat}}
==How can I enable guests to participate in a chat activity?==

[[Manage roles|Create a visitor role]] with the capability [[Capabilities/mod/chat:chat|mod/chat:chat]] allowed, then create an account and assign it the role of visitor. Guests can then share this visitor account.

The [[Guest role|guest role]] has some special functionality, for example when a guest attempts to participate in a chat, they obtain the message "The chat is not open to guests. Would you like to log in now with a full user account?". Despite the permissions interface suggesting otherwise, it's not possible to modify the guest role to allow guests to participate in chat activities.

==How can I use audio chat?==

Moodle itself does not yet include an audio chat solution, due to the large server requirements to implement a standalone solution.

However, there is a choice of free third party modules that you can install into your Moodle to achieve this:

#Big Blue Button: FREE audio and video conferencing http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=mod_bigbluebuttonbn
#OpenMeetings: FREE full audio/video conferencing http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/

==How can I restrict Chat so certain users cannot access it?==

Follow the steps below to create a new role - such as "NoChat" and apply it in the system context to the student(s) you want to prevent from chatting:

#Go to ''Settings > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Define Roles''
#Click ''Add a new role'' - name it for example "NoChat"
#In the context types, select "system"
#Type "chat" in the filter box
#Set the button for Access a Chat room (''mod/chat:chat'') to ''Prohibit''and save
#Go to ''Settings > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Assign system roles''
#Click on the new "NoChat" role and assign your chosen student(s) this role
#When they try to go into a chat room they will get a message that they cannot access the Chat

==How do I configure how long to save past chat sessions?==

On the ''Chat Setting''s page, navigate to the ''Chat sessions'' section, and choose how long to save sessions from the ''Save past sessions'' drop-down menu.

[[File:chat_savesesions.png|500px]]
==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=118 Chat module forum]

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Chat FAQ]]
[[es:Chat FAQ]]

Chat FAQ

2015-10-20T18:42:10Z

Dylanromero: /* How can I restrict Chat so certain users cannot access it? */

{{Chat}}
==How can I enable guests to participate in a chat activity?==

[[Manage roles|Create a visitor role]] with the capability [[Capabilities/mod/chat:chat|mod/chat:chat]] allowed, then create an account and assign it the role of visitor. Guests can then share this visitor account.

The [[Guest role|guest role]] has some special functionality, for example when a guest attempts to participate in a chat, they obtain the message "The chat is not open to guests. Would you like to log in now with a full user account?". Despite the permissions interface suggesting otherwise, it's not possible to modify the guest role to allow guests to participate in chat activities.

==How can I use audio chat?==

Moodle itself does not yet include an audio chat solution, due to the large server requirements to implement a standalone solution.

However, there is a choice of free third party modules that you can install into your Moodle to achieve this:

#Big Blue Button: FREE audio and video conferencing http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=mod_bigbluebuttonbn
#OpenMeetings: FREE full audio/video conferencing http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/

==How can I restrict Chat so certain users cannot access it?==

Follow the steps below to create a new role - such as "NoChat" and apply it in the system context to the student(s) you want to prevent from chatting:

#Go to ''Settings > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Define Roles''
#Click ''Add a new role'' - name it for example "NoChat"
#In the context types, select "system"
#Type "chat" in the filter box
#Set the button for Access a Chat room (''mod/chat:chat'')to ''Prohibit''and save
#Go to ''Settings > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Assign system roles''
#Click on the new "NoChat" role and assign your chosen student(s) this role
#When they try to go into a chat room they will get a message that they cannot access the Chat

==How do I configure how long to save past chat sessions?==

On the ''Chat Setting''s page, navigate to the ''Chat sessions'' section, and choose how long to save sessions from the ''Save past sessions'' drop-down menu.

[[File:chat_savesesions.png|500px]]
==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=118 Chat module forum]

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Chat FAQ]]
[[es:Chat FAQ]]

Chat FAQ

2015-10-20T18:41:33Z

Dylanromero: /* How can I restrict Chat so certain users cannot access it? */

{{Chat}}
==How can I enable guests to participate in a chat activity?==

[[Manage roles|Create a visitor role]] with the capability [[Capabilities/mod/chat:chat|mod/chat:chat]] allowed, then create an account and assign it the role of visitor. Guests can then share this visitor account.

The [[Guest role|guest role]] has some special functionality, for example when a guest attempts to participate in a chat, they obtain the message "The chat is not open to guests. Would you like to log in now with a full user account?". Despite the permissions interface suggesting otherwise, it's not possible to modify the guest role to allow guests to participate in chat activities.

==How can I use audio chat?==

Moodle itself does not yet include an audio chat solution, due to the large server requirements to implement a standalone solution.

However, there is a choice of free third party modules that you can install into your Moodle to achieve this:

#Big Blue Button: FREE audio and video conferencing http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=mod_bigbluebuttonbn
#OpenMeetings: FREE full audio/video conferencing http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/

==How can I restrict Chat so certain users cannot access it?==

Follow the steps below to create a new role - such as "NoChat" and apply it in the system context to the student(s) you want to prevent from chatting.

#Go to ''Settings>Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define Roles''
#Click ''Add a new role'' - name it for example "NoChat"
#In the context types, select "system"
#Type "chat" in the filter box
#Set the button for Access a Chat room (''mod/chat:chat'')to ''Prohibit''and save
#Go to ''Settings>Site administration>Users>Permissions>Assign system roles''
#Click on the new "NoChat" role and assign your chosen student(s) this role
#When they try to go into a chat room they will get a message that they cannot access the Chat

==How do I configure how long to save past chat sessions?==

On the ''Chat Setting''s page, navigate to the ''Chat sessions'' section, and choose how long to save sessions from the ''Save past sessions'' drop-down menu.

[[File:chat_savesesions.png|500px]]
==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=118 Chat module forum]

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Chat FAQ]]
[[es:Chat FAQ]]

Chat FAQ

2015-10-20T18:40:13Z

Dylanromero: /* How can I use audio chat? */

{{Chat}}
==How can I enable guests to participate in a chat activity?==

[[Manage roles|Create a visitor role]] with the capability [[Capabilities/mod/chat:chat|mod/chat:chat]] allowed, then create an account and assign it the role of visitor. Guests can then share this visitor account.

The [[Guest role|guest role]] has some special functionality, for example when a guest attempts to participate in a chat, they obtain the message "The chat is not open to guests. Would you like to log in now with a full user account?". Despite the permissions interface suggesting otherwise, it's not possible to modify the guest role to allow guests to participate in chat activities.

==How can I use audio chat?==

Moodle itself does not yet include an audio chat solution, due to the large server requirements to implement a standalone solution.

However, there is a choice of free third party modules that you can install into your Moodle to achieve this:

#Big Blue Button: FREE audio and video conferencing http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=mod_bigbluebuttonbn
#OpenMeetings: FREE full audio/video conferencing http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/

==How can I restrict Chat so certain users cannot access it?==

You need to create a new role -such as "NoChat" and apply it in the system context to the student(s) you want to prevent from chatting.

1. Go to ''Settings>Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define Roles''

2. Click ''Add a new role'' - name it for example "NoChat"

3. In the context types, select "system"

3. Type "chat" in the filter box.

4. Set the button for Access a Chat room (''mod/chat:chat'')to ''Prohibit''and save.

5. Go to ''Settings>Site administration>Users>Permissions>Assign system roles''

6. Click on the new "NoChat" role and assign your chosen student(s) this role

7. When they try to go into a chat room they will get a message that they cannot access the Chat.

==How do I configure how long to save past chat sessions?==

On the ''Chat Setting''s page, navigate to the ''Chat sessions'' section, and choose how long to save sessions from the ''Save past sessions'' drop-down menu.

[[File:chat_savesesions.png|500px]]
==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=118 Chat module forum]

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Chat FAQ]]
[[es:Chat FAQ]]

Chat FAQ

2015-10-20T18:39:43Z

Dylanromero: /* How can I enable guests to participate in a chat activity? */

{{Chat}}
==How can I enable guests to participate in a chat activity?==

[[Manage roles|Create a visitor role]] with the capability [[Capabilities/mod/chat:chat|mod/chat:chat]] allowed, then create an account and assign it the role of visitor. Guests can then share this visitor account.

The [[Guest role|guest role]] has some special functionality, for example when a guest attempts to participate in a chat, they obtain the message "The chat is not open to guests. Would you like to log in now with a full user account?". Despite the permissions interface suggesting otherwise, it's not possible to modify the guest role to allow guests to participate in chat activities.

==How can I use audio chat?==

Moodle itself does not yet include an audio chat solution, due to the large server requirements to implement a standalone solution.

However, there is a choice of free third party modules that you can install into your Moodle to achieve this:

# Big Blue Button -FREE audio and video conferencing http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=mod_bigbluebuttonbn
# OpenMeetings - FREE full audio/video conferencing http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/

==How can I restrict Chat so certain users cannot access it?==

You need to create a new role -such as "NoChat" and apply it in the system context to the student(s) you want to prevent from chatting.

1. Go to ''Settings>Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define Roles''

2. Click ''Add a new role'' - name it for example "NoChat"

3. In the context types, select "system"

3. Type "chat" in the filter box.

4. Set the button for Access a Chat room (''mod/chat:chat'')to ''Prohibit''and save.

5. Go to ''Settings>Site administration>Users>Permissions>Assign system roles''

6. Click on the new "NoChat" role and assign your chosen student(s) this role

7. When they try to go into a chat room they will get a message that they cannot access the Chat.

==How do I configure how long to save past chat sessions?==

On the ''Chat Setting''s page, navigate to the ''Chat sessions'' section, and choose how long to save sessions from the ''Save past sessions'' drop-down menu.

[[File:chat_savesesions.png|500px]]
==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=118 Chat module forum]

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Chat FAQ]]
[[es:Chat FAQ]]

Certificate FAQ

2015-10-20T18:22:41Z

Dylanromero: /* My old watermark does not work in 2.x certificate */

==Where is the conditional setting about grades?==
Your site administrator needs to turn it on in ''Site administration > Advanced features > Enable conditional access''.

==My old watermark does not work in 2.x certificate==
The default 2.1 certificate type code sets the transparency of the watermark image to 10%. Either change the watermark image so it is darker, or adjust the $pdf_SetAlpha setting. See [[Certificate customizing]] and the "Adjusting transparency of an image" section.

==Where can I download a copy of Certificate==
You can download Certificate for Moodle 2.x from [https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=mod_certificate the Moodle plugins database].
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[es:Certificado FAQ]]

Certificate FAQ

2015-10-20T18:18:27Z

Dylanromero: /* Where can I download a copy of Certificate */

==Where is the conditional setting about grades?==
Your site administrator needs to turn it on in ''Site administration > Advanced features > Enable conditional access''.

==My old watermark does not work in 2.x certificate==
The default 2.1 certificate type code sets the transperancy of the watermark image to 10%. Either change the watermark image so it is darker, or adjust the $pdf_SetAlpha setting. See [[Certificate customizing]] and the "Adjusting transparency of an image" section.

==Where can I download a copy of Certificate==
You can download Certificate for Moodle 2.x from [https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=mod_certificate the Moodle plugins database].
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[es:Certificado FAQ]]

Calendar FAQ

2015-10-20T18:13:14Z

Dylanromero: /* How can I import calendar events? */

{{Calendar}}

==How can I have teachers add site events?==

Make use of a [[Calendar editor role]] and assign the teachers to that role on the site.

==Why do events without duration not show on the first day of every month?==

If your timezone settings are not default you may find that events entered with no duration on the first day of the month, do not show in the month view of the calendar. Setting the two timezone settings in Administration > Location > Location Settings to the default settings should resolve this.

==How can I show more upcoming events?==

To show more events in the [[Upcoming Events block]], increase the days and/or events to lookahead in ''Site Administration > Appearance > Calendar''.

==Can I use a different calendar type instead of Gregorian?==
Yes. See [[:dev:Calendar types name|Calendar types]] in the Developer docs. It's possible to set the calendar type preference on the user and course settings page, the same as the language preference. However, unlike the language select box, this option is only shown if there is more than one calendar type. The reason for this is because the majority of sites using Moodle will not want to use another calendar type other than Gregorian.

==How can I import calendar events?==
See [[Calendar import]].

==Can I have a two-way sync with my Moodle calendar with my Google calendar?==

See this forum post: [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=218467#p951387 How to sync Google calendar with Moodle calendar]

==Why are month names not being displayed in the correct language?==

Names of days and months are pulled out of your operating system. The system is configured for Moodle in langconfig.php where you have the strings ''locale'' (for -nix type operating systems) and ''localewin'' (for Windows operating systems) that should point to the right locale on your server. Your server operating system should support the language (= locale should be installed). See MDL-31622 for further details.

==See also==

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kalender_FAQ]]
[[es:Calendario FAQ]]

Calendar FAQ

2015-10-20T18:13:05Z

Dylanromero: /* Why do events without duration not show on the first day of every month? */

{{Calendar}}

==How can I have teachers add site events?==

Make use of a [[Calendar editor role]] and assign the teachers to that role on the site.

==Why do events without duration not show on the first day of every month?==

If your timezone settings are not default you may find that events entered with no duration on the first day of the month, do not show in the month view of the calendar. Setting the two timezone settings in Administration > Location > Location Settings to the default settings should resolve this.

==How can I show more upcoming events?==

To show more events in the [[Upcoming Events block]], increase the days and/or events to lookahead in ''Site Administration > Appearance > Calendar''.

==Can I use a different calendar type instead of Gregorian?==
Yes. See [[:dev:Calendar types name|Calendar types]] in the Developer docs. It's possible to set the calendar type preference on the user and course settings page, the same as the language preference. However, unlike the language select box, this option is only shown if there is more than one calendar type. The reason for this is because the majority of sites using Moodle will not want to use another calendar type other than Gregorian.

==How can I import calendar events?==
See [[Calendar import]]

==Can I have a two-way sync with my Moodle calendar with my Google calendar?==

See this forum post: [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=218467#p951387 How to sync Google calendar with Moodle calendar]

==Why are month names not being displayed in the correct language?==

Names of days and months are pulled out of your operating system. The system is configured for Moodle in langconfig.php where you have the strings ''locale'' (for -nix type operating systems) and ''localewin'' (for Windows operating systems) that should point to the right locale on your server. Your server operating system should support the language (= locale should be installed). See MDL-31622 for further details.

==See also==

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kalender_FAQ]]
[[es:Calendario FAQ]]

Calendar FAQ

2015-10-20T18:11:32Z

Dylanromero: /* Can I have a two way sync with my Moodle calendar with my Google calendar? */

{{Calendar}}

==How can I have teachers add site events?==

Make use of a [[Calendar editor role]] and assign the teachers to that role on the site.

==Why do events without duration not show on the first day of every month?==

If your timezone settings are not default you may find that events entered with no duration on the first day of the the month, do not show in the month view of the calendar. Setting the two timezone settings in Administration > Location > Location Settings to the default settings should resolve this.

==How can I show more upcoming events?==

To show more events in the [[Upcoming Events block]], increase the days and/or events to lookahead in ''Site Administration > Appearance > Calendar''.

==Can I use a different calendar type instead of Gregorian?==
Yes. See [[:dev:Calendar types name|Calendar types]] in the Developer docs. It's possible to set the calendar type preference on the user and course settings page, the same as the language preference. However, unlike the language select box, this option is only shown if there is more than one calendar type. The reason for this is because the majority of sites using Moodle will not want to use another calendar type other than Gregorian.

==How can I import calendar events?==
See [[Calendar import]]

==Can I have a two-way sync with my Moodle calendar with my Google calendar?==

See this forum post: [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=218467#p951387 How to sync Google calendar with Moodle calendar]

==Why are month names not being displayed in the correct language?==

Names of days and months are pulled out of your operating system. The system is configured for Moodle in langconfig.php where you have the strings ''locale'' (for -nix type operating systems) and ''localewin'' (for Windows operating systems) that should point to the right locale on your server. Your server operating system should support the language (= locale should be installed). See MDL-31622 for further details.

==See also==

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kalender_FAQ]]
[[es:Calendario FAQ]]

Calendar FAQ

2015-10-20T18:11:03Z

Dylanromero: /* See also */

{{Calendar}}

==How can I have teachers add site events?==

Make use of a [[Calendar editor role]] and assign the teachers to that role on the site.

==Why do events without duration not show on the first day of every month?==

If your timezone settings are not default you may find that events entered with no duration on the first day of the the month, do not show in the month view of the calendar. Setting the two timezone settings in Administration > Location > Location Settings to the default settings should resolve this.

==How can I show more upcoming events?==

To show more events in the [[Upcoming Events block]], increase the days and/or events to lookahead in ''Site Administration > Appearance > Calendar''.

==Can I use a different calendar type instead of Gregorian?==
Yes. See [[:dev:Calendar types name|Calendar types]] in the Developer docs. It's possible to set the calendar type preference on the user and course settings page, the same as the language preference. However, unlike the language select box, this option is only shown if there is more than one calendar type. The reason for this is because the majority of sites using Moodle will not want to use another calendar type other than Gregorian.

==How can I import calendar events?==
See [[Calendar import]]

==Can I have a two way sync with my Moodle calendar with my Google calendar?==

See this forum post: [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=218467#p951387 How to sync Google calendar with Moodle calendar]

==Why are month names not being displayed in the correct language?==

Names of days and months are pulled out of your operating system. The system is configured for Moodle in langconfig.php where you have the strings ''locale'' (for -nix type operating systems) and ''localewin'' (for Windows operating systems) that should point to the right locale on your server. Your server operating system should support the language (= locale should be installed). See MDL-31622 for further details.

==See also==

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Kalender_FAQ]]
[[es:Calendario FAQ]]

Book FAQ

2015-10-20T18:04:30Z

Dylanromero: /* Can I import a PowerPoint into a book? */

{{Book}}
==How can I enable students to edit a book?==

Students are not supposed to be able to edit book; allowing it would be a serious security issue. The [[Capabilities/mod/book:edit|capability to edit book chapters]] is intended strictly for trusted users. Use a [[Wiki_activity|Wiki activity]] instead.

==How can I enable students to import web pages?==

Do not allow students to import or edit books! Only trusted users should have the [[Capabilities/mod/book:edit|capability to edit book chapters]] and the [[Capabilities/booktool/importhtml:import|capability to import chapters]].

==How can I enable teachers to export a book to IMS content package?==

Allow the [[Capabilities/booktool/exportimscp:export|capability to export to IMS CP]] for the role of teacher then go to ''Settings > Book administration > Generate IMS CP''.

==Why only two levels?==

Two levels are generally enough for all books, three levels may lead to poorly structured documents. The Book module is designed for the creation of short multi-page study materials. Consider uploading a file in PDF format for longer documents.

==How do I search within a book resource?==

There is no internal search facility, though you can always use your web browser's search capability in print page view.
==Can I import a PowerPoint into a book?==
See the forum post [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=218473 Semi-automated PowerPoint to Book import macro]for one possible method.

==Can I change the font of the print view for Book?==
Not easily. In book view your theme controls how is your book is displayed, where as during printing, book/tool/print/print.css determines the font, which is defaulted to Times New Roman. See https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220147#p972743

#'''A hack''': Use Print view in some utilities like [http://getfirebug.com/ Firebug] to change the font.
#'''Another hack''': See suggestion here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220147#p1066265
#Tracker item: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43385

==Why does Moodle hard code the print CSS to output books in Print format?==
Not really sure. See https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43385

==See also==

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Buch FAQ]]
[[es:Libro FAQ]]

Book FAQ

2015-10-20T18:03:56Z

Dylanromero: /* Can I import a powerpoint into a book? */

{{Book}}
==How can I enable students to edit a book?==

Students are not supposed to be able to edit book; allowing it would be a serious security issue. The [[Capabilities/mod/book:edit|capability to edit book chapters]] is intended strictly for trusted users. Use a [[Wiki_activity|Wiki activity]] instead.

==How can I enable students to import web pages?==

Do not allow students to import or edit books! Only trusted users should have the [[Capabilities/mod/book:edit|capability to edit book chapters]] and the [[Capabilities/booktool/importhtml:import|capability to import chapters]].

==How can I enable teachers to export a book to IMS content package?==

Allow the [[Capabilities/booktool/exportimscp:export|capability to export to IMS CP]] for the role of teacher then go to ''Settings > Book administration > Generate IMS CP''.

==Why only two levels?==

Two levels are generally enough for all books, three levels may lead to poorly structured documents. The Book module is designed for the creation of short multi-page study materials. Consider uploading a file in PDF format for longer documents.

==How do I search within a book resource?==

There is no internal search facility, though you can always use your web browser's search capability in print page view.
==Can I import a PowerPoint into a book?==
See the forum post [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=218473 Semi-automated Powerpoint to Book import macro]for one possible method.

==Can I change the font of the print view for Book?==
Not easily. In book view your theme controls how is your book is displayed, where as during printing, book/tool/print/print.css determines the font, which is defaulted to Times New Roman. See https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220147#p972743

#'''A hack''': Use Print view in some utilities like [http://getfirebug.com/ Firebug] to change the font.
#'''Another hack''': See suggestion here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220147#p1066265
#Tracker item: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43385

==Why does Moodle hard code the print CSS to output books in Print format?==
Not really sure. See https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43385

==See also==

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Buch FAQ]]
[[es:Libro FAQ]]

Book FAQ

2015-10-20T18:02:18Z

Dylanromero: /* See also */

{{Book}}
==How can I enable students to edit a book?==

Students are not supposed to be able to edit book; allowing it would be a serious security issue. The [[Capabilities/mod/book:edit|capability to edit book chapters]] is intended strictly for trusted users. Use a [[Wiki_activity|Wiki activity]] instead.

==How can I enable students to import web pages?==

Do not allow students to import or edit books! Only trusted users should have the [[Capabilities/mod/book:edit|capability to edit book chapters]] and the [[Capabilities/booktool/importhtml:import|capability to import chapters]].

==How can I enable teachers to export a book to IMS content package?==

Allow the [[Capabilities/booktool/exportimscp:export|capability to export to IMS CP]] for the role of teacher then go to ''Settings > Book administration > Generate IMS CP''.

==Why only two levels?==

Two levels are generally enough for all books, three levels may lead to poorly structured documents. The Book module is designed for the creation of short multi-page study materials. Consider uploading a file in PDF format for longer documents.

==How do I search within a book resource?==

There is no internal search facility, though you can always use your web browser's search capability in print page view.
==Can I import a powerpoint into a book?==
See the forum post [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=218473 Semi-automated Powerpoint to Book import macro]for one possible method.

==Can I change the font of the print view for Book?==
Not easily. In book view your theme controls how is your book is displayed, where as during printing, book/tool/print/print.css determines the font, which is defaulted to Times New Roman. See https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220147#p972743

#'''A hack''': Use Print view in some utilities like [http://getfirebug.com/ Firebug] to change the font.
#'''Another hack''': See suggestion here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220147#p1066265
#Tracker item: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43385

==Why does Moodle hard code the print CSS to output books in Print format?==
Not really sure. See https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43385

==See also==

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Buch FAQ]]
[[es:Libro FAQ]]

Book FAQ

2015-10-20T17:59:06Z

Dylanromero: /* Can I change the font of the print view for Book? */

{{Book}}
==How can I enable students to edit a book?==

Students are not supposed to be able to edit book; allowing it would be a serious security issue. The [[Capabilities/mod/book:edit|capability to edit book chapters]] is intended strictly for trusted users. Use a [[Wiki_activity|Wiki activity]] instead.

==How can I enable students to import web pages?==

Do not allow students to import or edit books! Only trusted users should have the [[Capabilities/mod/book:edit|capability to edit book chapters]] and the [[Capabilities/booktool/importhtml:import|capability to import chapters]].

==How can I enable teachers to export a book to IMS content package?==

Allow the [[Capabilities/booktool/exportimscp:export|capability to export to IMS CP]] for the role of teacher then go to ''Settings > Book administration > Generate IMS CP''.

==Why only two levels?==

Two levels are generally enough for all books, three levels may lead to poorly structured documents. The Book module is designed for the creation of short multi-page study materials. Consider uploading a file in PDF format for longer documents.

==How do I search within a book resource?==

There is no internal search facility, though you can always use your web browser's search capability in print page view.
==Can I import a powerpoint into a book?==
See the forum post [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=218473 Semi-automated Powerpoint to Book import macro]for one possible method.

==Can I change the font of the print view for Book?==
Not easily. In book view your theme controls how is your book is displayed, where as during printing, book/tool/print/print.css determines the font, which is defaulted to Times New Roman. See https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220147#p972743

#'''A hack''': Use Print view in some utilities like [http://getfirebug.com/ Firebug] to change the font.
#'''Another hack''': See suggestion here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220147#p1066265
#Tracker item: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43385

==Why does Moodle hard code the print CSS to output books in Print format?==
Not really sure. See https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43385

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208324 Moving Book from One Course to Another] forum discussion

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Buch FAQ]]
[[es:Libro FAQ]]

Book FAQ

2015-10-20T17:56:57Z

Dylanromero: /* How can I enable students to edit a book? */

{{Book}}
==How can I enable students to edit a book?==

Students are not supposed to be able to edit book; allowing it would be a serious security issue. The [[Capabilities/mod/book:edit|capability to edit book chapters]] is intended strictly for trusted users. Use a [[Wiki_activity|Wiki activity]] instead.

==How can I enable students to import web pages?==

Do not allow students to import or edit books! Only trusted users should have the [[Capabilities/mod/book:edit|capability to edit book chapters]] and the [[Capabilities/booktool/importhtml:import|capability to import chapters]].

==How can I enable teachers to export a book to IMS content package?==

Allow the [[Capabilities/booktool/exportimscp:export|capability to export to IMS CP]] for the role of teacher then go to ''Settings > Book administration > Generate IMS CP''.

==Why only two levels?==

Two levels are generally enough for all books, three levels may lead to poorly structured documents. The Book module is designed for the creation of short multi-page study materials. Consider uploading a file in PDF format for longer documents.

==How do I search within a book resource?==

There is no internal search facility, though you can always use your web browser's search capability in print page view.
==Can I import a powerpoint into a book?==
See the forum post [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=218473 Semi-automated Powerpoint to Book import macro]for one possible method.

==Can I change the font of the print view for Book?==
Not easily. In book view your theme controls how is your book is displayed, where as during printing, book/tool/print/print.css determines the font, which is defaulted to Times New Roman. See https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220147#p972743

#A hack: you can in Print view use some utility like [http://getfirebug.com/ Firebug] to change the font.
#Another hack: Also see suggestion here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220147#p1066265
#Tracker item: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43385

==Why does Moodle hard code the print CSS to output books in Print format?==
Not really sure. See https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43385

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208324 Moving Book from One Course to Another] forum discussion

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Buch FAQ]]
[[es:Libro FAQ]]

Book FAQ

2015-10-20T17:56:46Z

Dylanromero: /* How can I enable students to edit a book? */

{{Book}}
==How can I enable students to edit a book?==

Students are not supposed to be able to edit book; allowing it would be a serious security issue. The [[Capabilities/mod/book:edit|capability to edit book chapters]] is intended strictly for trusted users. Use a [[Wiki_activity Wiki activity]] instead.

==How can I enable students to import web pages?==

Do not allow students to import or edit books! Only trusted users should have the [[Capabilities/mod/book:edit|capability to edit book chapters]] and the [[Capabilities/booktool/importhtml:import|capability to import chapters]].

==How can I enable teachers to export a book to IMS content package?==

Allow the [[Capabilities/booktool/exportimscp:export|capability to export to IMS CP]] for the role of teacher then go to ''Settings > Book administration > Generate IMS CP''.

==Why only two levels?==

Two levels are generally enough for all books, three levels may lead to poorly structured documents. The Book module is designed for the creation of short multi-page study materials. Consider uploading a file in PDF format for longer documents.

==How do I search within a book resource?==

There is no internal search facility, though you can always use your web browser's search capability in print page view.
==Can I import a powerpoint into a book?==
See the forum post [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=218473 Semi-automated Powerpoint to Book import macro]for one possible method.

==Can I change the font of the print view for Book?==
Not easily. In book view your theme controls how is your book is displayed, where as during printing, book/tool/print/print.css determines the font, which is defaulted to Times New Roman. See https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220147#p972743

#A hack: you can in Print view use some utility like [http://getfirebug.com/ Firebug] to change the font.
#Another hack: Also see suggestion here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220147#p1066265
#Tracker item: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43385

==Why does Moodle hard code the print CSS to output books in Print format?==
Not really sure. See https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43385

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208324 Moving Book from One Course to Another] forum discussion

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Buch FAQ]]
[[es:Libro FAQ]]

Book FAQ

2015-10-20T17:56:26Z

Dylanromero: /* How can I enable students to edit a book? */

{{Book}}
==How can I enable students to edit a book?==

Students are not supposed to be able to edit book; allowing it would be a serious security issue. The [[Capabilities/mod/book:edit|capability to edit book chapters]] is intended strictly for trusted users. Use a [[Wiki_activity|Wiki activity]] instead.

==How can I enable students to import web pages?==

Do not allow students to import or edit books! Only trusted users should have the [[Capabilities/mod/book:edit|capability to edit book chapters]] and the [[Capabilities/booktool/importhtml:import|capability to import chapters]].

==How can I enable teachers to export a book to IMS content package?==

Allow the [[Capabilities/booktool/exportimscp:export|capability to export to IMS CP]] for the role of teacher then go to ''Settings > Book administration > Generate IMS CP''.

==Why only two levels?==

Two levels are generally enough for all books, three levels may lead to poorly structured documents. The Book module is designed for the creation of short multi-page study materials. Consider uploading a file in PDF format for longer documents.

==How do I search within a book resource?==

There is no internal search facility, though you can always use your web browser's search capability in print page view.
==Can I import a powerpoint into a book?==
See the forum post [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=218473 Semi-automated Powerpoint to Book import macro]for one possible method.

==Can I change the font of the print view for Book?==
Not easily. In book view your theme controls how is your book is displayed, where as during printing, book/tool/print/print.css determines the font, which is defaulted to Times New Roman. See https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220147#p972743

#A hack: you can in Print view use some utility like [http://getfirebug.com/ Firebug] to change the font.
#Another hack: Also see suggestion here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220147#p1066265
#Tracker item: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43385

==Why does Moodle hard code the print CSS to output books in Print format?==
Not really sure. See https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43385

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208324 Moving Book from One Course to Another] forum discussion

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Buch FAQ]]
[[es:Libro FAQ]]

Book FAQ

2015-10-20T17:55:50Z

Dylanromero: /* How can I enable students to edit a book? */

{{Book}}
==How can I enable students to edit a book?==

Students are not supposed to be able to edit book; allowing it would be a serious security issue. The [[Capabilities/mod/book:edit|capability to edit book chapters]] is intended strictly for trusted users. Use a [[https://docs.moodle.org/310/en/Wiki_activity|Wiki activity]] instead.

==How can I enable students to import web pages?==

Do not allow students to import or edit books! Only trusted users should have the [[Capabilities/mod/book:edit|capability to edit book chapters]] and the [[Capabilities/booktool/importhtml:import|capability to import chapters]].

==How can I enable teachers to export a book to IMS content package?==

Allow the [[Capabilities/booktool/exportimscp:export|capability to export to IMS CP]] for the role of teacher then go to ''Settings > Book administration > Generate IMS CP''.

==Why only two levels?==

Two levels are generally enough for all books, three levels may lead to poorly structured documents. The Book module is designed for the creation of short multi-page study materials. Consider uploading a file in PDF format for longer documents.

==How do I search within a book resource?==

There is no internal search facility, though you can always use your web browser's search capability in print page view.
==Can I import a powerpoint into a book?==
See the forum post [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=218473 Semi-automated Powerpoint to Book import macro]for one possible method.

==Can I change the font of the print view for Book?==
Not easily. In book view your theme controls how is your book is displayed, where as during printing, book/tool/print/print.css determines the font, which is defaulted to Times New Roman. See https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220147#p972743

#A hack: you can in Print view use some utility like [http://getfirebug.com/ Firebug] to change the font.
#Another hack: Also see suggestion here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220147#p1066265
#Tracker item: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43385

==Why does Moodle hard code the print CSS to output books in Print format?==
Not really sure. See https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43385

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208324 Moving Book from One Course to Another] forum discussion

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Buch FAQ]]
[[es:Libro FAQ]]

Book FAQ

2015-10-20T17:55:36Z

Dylanromero: /* How can I enable students to edit a book? */

{{Book}}
==How can I enable students to edit a book?==

Students are not supposed to be able to edit book; allowing it would be a serious security issue. The [[Capabilities/mod/book:edit|capability to edit book chapters]] is intended strictly for trusted users. Use a [[https://docs.moodle.org/310/en/Wiki_activity Wiki activity]] instead.

==How can I enable students to import web pages?==

Do not allow students to import or edit books! Only trusted users should have the [[Capabilities/mod/book:edit|capability to edit book chapters]] and the [[Capabilities/booktool/importhtml:import|capability to import chapters]].

==How can I enable teachers to export a book to IMS content package?==

Allow the [[Capabilities/booktool/exportimscp:export|capability to export to IMS CP]] for the role of teacher then go to ''Settings > Book administration > Generate IMS CP''.

==Why only two levels?==

Two levels are generally enough for all books, three levels may lead to poorly structured documents. The Book module is designed for the creation of short multi-page study materials. Consider uploading a file in PDF format for longer documents.

==How do I search within a book resource?==

There is no internal search facility, though you can always use your web browser's search capability in print page view.
==Can I import a powerpoint into a book?==
See the forum post [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=218473 Semi-automated Powerpoint to Book import macro]for one possible method.

==Can I change the font of the print view for Book?==
Not easily. In book view your theme controls how is your book is displayed, where as during printing, book/tool/print/print.css determines the font, which is defaulted to Times New Roman. See https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220147#p972743

#A hack: you can in Print view use some utility like [http://getfirebug.com/ Firebug] to change the font.
#Another hack: Also see suggestion here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220147#p1066265
#Tracker item: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43385

==Why does Moodle hard code the print CSS to output books in Print format?==
Not really sure. See https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-43385

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=208324 Moving Book from One Course to Another] forum discussion

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Buch FAQ]]
[[es:Libro FAQ]]

Blocks FAQ

2015-10-20T17:35:04Z

Dylanromero: /* See also */

{{Blocks}}
==How do I hide front page blocks from non-logged-in users?==

# Click the "Turn editing on" button at the top-right of the front page (you need to be logged in as an administrator)
# Click the assign roles icon (often a face and mask) in the header of the block to be hidden ('''NOTE''': Don't worry if you get an error message saying you are not able to assign roles)
# Scroll down to the settings block and click the Permissions link
# In the ''View block'' section, click the X next to ''Guest''
# Click the "Save changes" button
Alternatively, to hide all blocks from non-logged in users, you can go to ''Administration>Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles'' and edit the Guest role to disallow ''View block''.

==How do I show front page blocks to guests and hide them from logged in users?==
# Click the "Turn editing on" button at the top-right of the front page (you need to be logged in as an administrator)
# Click the assign roles icon (in the header of the block to be hidden ('''NOTE''': Don't worry if you get an error message saying you are not able to assign roles)
# Scroll down to the settings block and click the Permissions link
# In the ''View block'' section, click the X next to ''authenticated user''
# Click the "Save changes" button

==How do I get rid of a link in "Site Pages" in the Navigation block?==
When a resource or activity (like a page, file or forum) is added to the [[Main menu block]] on the front page, it will appear in the Site Pages of the Navigation block. If you need the item but don't want it to display then go to ''Site administration>Appearance>Navigation'' and uncheck "show front page activities in the navigation". If you no longer want the item then turn on the editing on the front page, go to or add the [[Main menu block]] and click to delete the item.

==How do I make a front page block visible to teachers but not students?==
It is possible to control who sees block on the front page. The following applies to any specified group of people, not just teachers and students.
# Ensure you have hidden your block from non-logged in users as in the instructions above
# In ''Administration>Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles'', click on "authenticated user on the front page"
# In the context type, select "block"
# Set ''moodle/block:view'' to "allow"
# Click "Save changes"
#Turn editing on on your front page.
#Click the "assign roles " icon on your block
#Click the blue words of "authenticated user on the front page" to access the screen where you can choose who you want to allow to see this block (such as your teachers) by moving them from the right hand box to the left
#Now click "Permissions" in your block's Administration settings
#Click the X next to "authenticated user" to prevent them viewing this block
#From now on, regular authenticated users will not be able to see the block - however, those who have been given the role of "authenticated user on the front page" will be able to see it

==How do I make a block in my course visible to teachers but not students?==
Here are two suggestions:

#Add a block to a page which only teachers can see, for example ''/grade/report/grader/index.php'' You could add a comments block for teachers to discuss and moderate each others' grades. Alternatively,you could add an HTML block to ''/badges/index.php'' with badge issuing policies. A block may also be added to ''enrol/users.php'' for notes or comments regarding enrolments.
#Add a block to the main course page and ask your administrator to go to ''Block>Assign roles>Permissions'' and prevent authenticated users and students from viewing the block. (A regular teacher cannot change permissions of authenticated users.)

==How can I change a Block item name from a list inside a block?==
You can change an item name in ''Settings>Site Administration > Language> Language customization'' Select the 'moodle.php' file then search for the words you need to alter.

==How to I make a block "sticky"?==
See [[Block settings]]. Using the edit icon in the block heading, go to the configuration page. Look for the "Where this block appears" group and "Display on page types". Depending upon your current context and permissions, you will see different options. One maybe "All pages" or "Any type of course main page", and others.

==Where did that block come from? I do not want it!==
Your site administrator or some one with more permissions than you decided that block should be there. It is possible to force a block to appear on other pages. For example, a site administrator my force a HTML block on every main course page and determine where it will be, so they may put site messages there.

Your site administrator can tell where every instance of a block appears via [[Managing blocks]].

==How can I decide the order in which blocks are docked?==
Blocks are "docked", from top to bottom (usually on the left) in the order in which you dock them.

==How can I add a block to all user profile pages?==

See [[User profiles]] for instructions.

==How can I prevent users from adding blocks to their dashboard page?==

See [[Dashboard]] for instructions.

==The blocks have disappeared from the front page/course page!==
This can sometimes be caused by users pasting from Microsoft Word which corrupts the formatting. See this forum post for more details https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=217390#p958884

==Help, I accidentally hid the administration block without realising the consequences!==

# Go to <nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.org/admin/blocks.php</nowiki>
# Unhide the administration block by clicking the closed eye icon opposite it

==I accidentally deleted the navigation (or administration) block!==

# Go to ''Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Blocks > Manage blocks'' (or via the URL <nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.org/admin/blocks.php</nowiki>) and unprotect the navigation block by clicking the padlock icon
# Turn editing on in any course
# Go to the front page and use the 'Add a block' dropdown menu to add a navigation block there, setting it to display throughout the entire site
# Go back to ''Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Blocks > Manage blocks'' and re-protect the navigation block.

The above method works the same for the navigation and administration blocks.

==My Administration block links don't expand!==

This has been noticed as a Javascript problem. Given the many possible factors behind this issue, each situation is different. Please try to:

1. Use another browser or use another version of the same browser (try both, lower and higher versions).

2. [[Purge all cache]] (Administration > Development > Purge all caches): ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>admin/purgecaches.php</code>

3. Change the Use slash arguments option at the [[HTTP]] page (Administration > Server > HTTP): ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>admin/settings.php?section=http</code>

4. Try different settings at the [[AJAX and Javascript settings]] page (Administration > Appearance > AJAX and Javascript): ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>admin/settings.php?section=ajax</code>

* Enabling the Use online YUI libraries (''useexternalyui'') sometimes has solved the problem (see [http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-31678 tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-31678]).

5. [http://www.enable-javascript.com/ Turn off Javascript] in your browser (the linked site shows how to enable Javascript, so do the opposite)

6. [http://www.java.com/en/download/help/disable_browser.xml Turn off Java] (you should have it disabled anyway, unless you really need it)

7. Try using another theme: ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>theme/index.php</code>

8. If you are using the <code>$CFG->httpswwwroot</code> directive (for SSL login) at the '''config.php''' configuration file, try and comment it (add a double forward slash and a space "// " at the beginning of the line), like so:

// $CFG->httpswwwroot = etc.

9. At the Moodle '''config.php''' configuration file, add the following line to set the default time zone (please use the [http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php List of supported timezones]):

date_default_timezone_set("''valid-timezone''");

For example, to set the time zone for Sofia, Bulgaria, add the following line:

date_default_timezone_set("Europe/Sofia");

'''Note'''. If possible, it would actually be better to add the time zone setting directive to the PHP '''php.ini''' configuration file (please see [http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php#ini.date.timezone PHP Runtime configuration]):

date.timezone ''valid-timezone''

You should also:

1. Enable [[Debugging]] (Administration > Development > Debugging): ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>admin/settings.php?section=debugging</code>, as this may provide possible useful information regarding the cause.

2. Check if your browser is showing some warning or error indications (watch the status bar).

For more details see any of the following forum threads:
*https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=269877#p1166200
*https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=166994
*https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=200243
*Tracker MDL-31678

==How can I add a Twitter feed block?==

An HTML block can be used to display the latest tweets from any Twitter account. See [[HTML block]] for details.

==See also==

Moodle forum discussions:
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=195874 More problems with "Sticky" blocks in 2.2] with instructions on how to make blocks appear on all course pages
*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=2121 Blocks forum]
[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Block_FAQ]]
[[es:Bloques FAQ]]

Blocks FAQ

2015-10-20T17:34:10Z

Dylanromero: /* My Administration block links don't expand! */

{{Blocks}}
==How do I hide front page blocks from non-logged-in users?==

# Click the "Turn editing on" button at the top-right of the front page (you need to be logged in as an administrator)
# Click the assign roles icon (often a face and mask) in the header of the block to be hidden ('''NOTE''': Don't worry if you get an error message saying you are not able to assign roles)
# Scroll down to the settings block and click the Permissions link
# In the ''View block'' section, click the X next to ''Guest''
# Click the "Save changes" button
Alternatively, to hide all blocks from non-logged in users, you can go to ''Administration>Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles'' and edit the Guest role to disallow ''View block''.

==How do I show front page blocks to guests and hide them from logged in users?==
# Click the "Turn editing on" button at the top-right of the front page (you need to be logged in as an administrator)
# Click the assign roles icon (in the header of the block to be hidden ('''NOTE''': Don't worry if you get an error message saying you are not able to assign roles)
# Scroll down to the settings block and click the Permissions link
# In the ''View block'' section, click the X next to ''authenticated user''
# Click the "Save changes" button

==How do I get rid of a link in "Site Pages" in the Navigation block?==
When a resource or activity (like a page, file or forum) is added to the [[Main menu block]] on the front page, it will appear in the Site Pages of the Navigation block. If you need the item but don't want it to display then go to ''Site administration>Appearance>Navigation'' and uncheck "show front page activities in the navigation". If you no longer want the item then turn on the editing on the front page, go to or add the [[Main menu block]] and click to delete the item.

==How do I make a front page block visible to teachers but not students?==
It is possible to control who sees block on the front page. The following applies to any specified group of people, not just teachers and students.
# Ensure you have hidden your block from non-logged in users as in the instructions above
# In ''Administration>Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles'', click on "authenticated user on the front page"
# In the context type, select "block"
# Set ''moodle/block:view'' to "allow"
# Click "Save changes"
#Turn editing on on your front page.
#Click the "assign roles " icon on your block
#Click the blue words of "authenticated user on the front page" to access the screen where you can choose who you want to allow to see this block (such as your teachers) by moving them from the right hand box to the left
#Now click "Permissions" in your block's Administration settings
#Click the X next to "authenticated user" to prevent them viewing this block
#From now on, regular authenticated users will not be able to see the block - however, those who have been given the role of "authenticated user on the front page" will be able to see it

==How do I make a block in my course visible to teachers but not students?==
Here are two suggestions:

#Add a block to a page which only teachers can see, for example ''/grade/report/grader/index.php'' You could add a comments block for teachers to discuss and moderate each others' grades. Alternatively,you could add an HTML block to ''/badges/index.php'' with badge issuing policies. A block may also be added to ''enrol/users.php'' for notes or comments regarding enrolments.
#Add a block to the main course page and ask your administrator to go to ''Block>Assign roles>Permissions'' and prevent authenticated users and students from viewing the block. (A regular teacher cannot change permissions of authenticated users.)

==How can I change a Block item name from a list inside a block?==
You can change an item name in ''Settings>Site Administration > Language> Language customization'' Select the 'moodle.php' file then search for the words you need to alter.

==How to I make a block "sticky"?==
See [[Block settings]]. Using the edit icon in the block heading, go to the configuration page. Look for the "Where this block appears" group and "Display on page types". Depending upon your current context and permissions, you will see different options. One maybe "All pages" or "Any type of course main page", and others.

==Where did that block come from? I do not want it!==
Your site administrator or some one with more permissions than you decided that block should be there. It is possible to force a block to appear on other pages. For example, a site administrator my force a HTML block on every main course page and determine where it will be, so they may put site messages there.

Your site administrator can tell where every instance of a block appears via [[Managing blocks]].

==How can I decide the order in which blocks are docked?==
Blocks are "docked", from top to bottom (usually on the left) in the order in which you dock them.

==How can I add a block to all user profile pages?==

See [[User profiles]] for instructions.

==How can I prevent users from adding blocks to their dashboard page?==

See [[Dashboard]] for instructions.

==The blocks have disappeared from the front page/course page!==
This can sometimes be caused by users pasting from Microsoft Word which corrupts the formatting. See this forum post for more details https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=217390#p958884

==Help, I accidentally hid the administration block without realising the consequences!==

# Go to <nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.org/admin/blocks.php</nowiki>
# Unhide the administration block by clicking the closed eye icon opposite it

==I accidentally deleted the navigation (or administration) block!==

# Go to ''Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Blocks > Manage blocks'' (or via the URL <nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.org/admin/blocks.php</nowiki>) and unprotect the navigation block by clicking the padlock icon
# Turn editing on in any course
# Go to the front page and use the 'Add a block' dropdown menu to add a navigation block there, setting it to display throughout the entire site
# Go back to ''Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Blocks > Manage blocks'' and re-protect the navigation block.

The above method works the same for the navigation and administration blocks.

==My Administration block links don't expand!==

This has been noticed as a Javascript problem. Given the many possible factors behind this issue, each situation is different. Please try to:

1. Use another browser or use another version of the same browser (try both, lower and higher versions).

2. [[Purge all cache]] (Administration > Development > Purge all caches): ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>admin/purgecaches.php</code>

3. Change the Use slash arguments option at the [[HTTP]] page (Administration > Server > HTTP): ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>admin/settings.php?section=http</code>

4. Try different settings at the [[AJAX and Javascript settings]] page (Administration > Appearance > AJAX and Javascript): ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>admin/settings.php?section=ajax</code>

* Enabling the Use online YUI libraries (''useexternalyui'') sometimes has solved the problem (see [http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-31678 tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-31678]).

5. [http://www.enable-javascript.com/ Turn off Javascript] in your browser (the linked site shows how to enable Javascript, so do the opposite)

6. [http://www.java.com/en/download/help/disable_browser.xml Turn off Java] (you should have it disabled anyway, unless you really need it)

7. Try using another theme: ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>theme/index.php</code>

8. If you are using the <code>$CFG->httpswwwroot</code> directive (for SSL login) at the '''config.php''' configuration file, try and comment it (add a double forward slash and a space "// " at the beginning of the line), like so:

// $CFG->httpswwwroot = etc.

9. At the Moodle '''config.php''' configuration file, add the following line to set the default time zone (please use the [http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php List of supported timezones]):

date_default_timezone_set("''valid-timezone''");

For example, to set the time zone for Sofia, Bulgaria, add the following line:

date_default_timezone_set("Europe/Sofia");

'''Note'''. If possible, it would actually be better to add the time zone setting directive to the PHP '''php.ini''' configuration file (please see [http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php#ini.date.timezone PHP Runtime configuration]):

date.timezone ''valid-timezone''

You should also:

1. Enable [[Debugging]] (Administration > Development > Debugging): ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>admin/settings.php?section=debugging</code>, as this may provide possible useful information regarding the cause.

2. Check if your browser is showing some warning or error indications (watch the status bar).

For more details see any of the following forum threads:
*https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=269877#p1166200
*https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=166994
*https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=200243
*Tracker MDL-31678

==How can I add a Twitter feed block?==

An HTML block can be used to display the latest tweets from any Twitter account. See [[HTML block]] for details.

==See also==

*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=2121 Blocks forum]

Using Moodle forum discussions:
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=195874 More problems with "Sticky" blocks in 2.2] with instructions on how to make blocks appear on all course pages

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Block_FAQ]]
[[es:Bloques FAQ]]

Blocks FAQ

2015-10-20T17:30:58Z

Dylanromero: /* Where did that block come from? I do not want it! */

{{Blocks}}
==How do I hide front page blocks from non-logged-in users?==

# Click the "Turn editing on" button at the top-right of the front page (you need to be logged in as an administrator)
# Click the assign roles icon (often a face and mask) in the header of the block to be hidden ('''NOTE''': Don't worry if you get an error message saying you are not able to assign roles)
# Scroll down to the settings block and click the Permissions link
# In the ''View block'' section, click the X next to ''Guest''
# Click the "Save changes" button
Alternatively, to hide all blocks from non-logged in users, you can go to ''Administration>Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles'' and edit the Guest role to disallow ''View block''.

==How do I show front page blocks to guests and hide them from logged in users?==
# Click the "Turn editing on" button at the top-right of the front page (you need to be logged in as an administrator)
# Click the assign roles icon (in the header of the block to be hidden ('''NOTE''': Don't worry if you get an error message saying you are not able to assign roles)
# Scroll down to the settings block and click the Permissions link
# In the ''View block'' section, click the X next to ''authenticated user''
# Click the "Save changes" button

==How do I get rid of a link in "Site Pages" in the Navigation block?==
When a resource or activity (like a page, file or forum) is added to the [[Main menu block]] on the front page, it will appear in the Site Pages of the Navigation block. If you need the item but don't want it to display then go to ''Site administration>Appearance>Navigation'' and uncheck "show front page activities in the navigation". If you no longer want the item then turn on the editing on the front page, go to or add the [[Main menu block]] and click to delete the item.

==How do I make a front page block visible to teachers but not students?==
It is possible to control who sees block on the front page. The following applies to any specified group of people, not just teachers and students.
# Ensure you have hidden your block from non-logged in users as in the instructions above
# In ''Administration>Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles'', click on "authenticated user on the front page"
# In the context type, select "block"
# Set ''moodle/block:view'' to "allow"
# Click "Save changes"
#Turn editing on on your front page.
#Click the "assign roles " icon on your block
#Click the blue words of "authenticated user on the front page" to access the screen where you can choose who you want to allow to see this block (such as your teachers) by moving them from the right hand box to the left
#Now click "Permissions" in your block's Administration settings
#Click the X next to "authenticated user" to prevent them viewing this block
#From now on, regular authenticated users will not be able to see the block - however, those who have been given the role of "authenticated user on the front page" will be able to see it

==How do I make a block in my course visible to teachers but not students?==
Here are two suggestions:

#Add a block to a page which only teachers can see, for example ''/grade/report/grader/index.php'' You could add a comments block for teachers to discuss and moderate each others' grades. Alternatively,you could add an HTML block to ''/badges/index.php'' with badge issuing policies. A block may also be added to ''enrol/users.php'' for notes or comments regarding enrolments.
#Add a block to the main course page and ask your administrator to go to ''Block>Assign roles>Permissions'' and prevent authenticated users and students from viewing the block. (A regular teacher cannot change permissions of authenticated users.)

==How can I change a Block item name from a list inside a block?==
You can change an item name in ''Settings>Site Administration > Language> Language customization'' Select the 'moodle.php' file then search for the words you need to alter.

==How to I make a block "sticky"?==
See [[Block settings]]. Using the edit icon in the block heading, go to the configuration page. Look for the "Where this block appears" group and "Display on page types". Depending upon your current context and permissions, you will see different options. One maybe "All pages" or "Any type of course main page", and others.

==Where did that block come from? I do not want it!==
Your site administrator or some one with more permissions than you decided that block should be there. It is possible to force a block to appear on other pages. For example, a site administrator my force a HTML block on every main course page and determine where it will be, so they may put site messages there.

Your site administrator can tell where every instance of a block appears via [[Managing blocks]].

==How can I decide the order in which blocks are docked?==
Blocks are "docked", from top to bottom (usually on the left) in the order in which you dock them.

==How can I add a block to all user profile pages?==

See [[User profiles]] for instructions.

==How can I prevent users from adding blocks to their dashboard page?==

See [[Dashboard]] for instructions.

==The blocks have disappeared from the front page/course page!==
This can sometimes be caused by users pasting from Microsoft Word which corrupts the formatting. See this forum post for more details https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=217390#p958884

==Help, I accidentally hid the administration block without realising the consequences!==

# Go to <nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.org/admin/blocks.php</nowiki>
# Unhide the administration block by clicking the closed eye icon opposite it

==I accidentally deleted the navigation (or administration) block!==

# Go to ''Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Blocks > Manage blocks'' (or via the URL <nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.org/admin/blocks.php</nowiki>) and unprotect the navigation block by clicking the padlock icon
# Turn editing on in any course
# Go to the front page and use the 'Add a block' dropdown menu to add a navigation block there, setting it to display throughout the entire site
# Go back to ''Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Blocks > Manage blocks'' and re-protect the navigation block.

The above method works the same for the navigation and administration blocks.

==My Administration block links don't expand!==

This has been noticed as a Javascript problem. Given the many possible factors behind this issue, each situation is different. Please try to:

1. Use another browser or use another version of the same browser (try both, lower and higher versions).

2. [[Purge all cache]] (Administration > Development > Purge all caches): ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>admin/purgecaches.php</code>

3. Change the Use slash arguments option at the [[HTTP]] page (Administration > Server > HTTP): ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>admin/settings.php?section=http</code>

4. Try different settings at the [[AJAX and Javascript settings]] page (Administration > Appearance > AJAX and Javascript): ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>admin/settings.php?section=ajax</code>

* Enabling the Use online YUI libraries (''useexternalyui'') sometimes has solved the problem (see [http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-31678 tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-31678]).

5. [http://www.enable-javascript.com/ Turn off Javascript] in your browser (the linked site shows how to enable Javascript, so do the opposite)

6. [http://www.java.com/en/download/help/disable_browser.xml Turn off Java] (you should have it disabled anyway, unless you really need it)

7. Try using another theme: ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>theme/index.php</code>

8. If you are using the <code>$CFG->httpswwwroot</code> directive (for SSL login) at the '''config.php''' configuration file, try and comment it (add a double forward slash and a space "// " at the beginning of the line), like so:

// $CFG->httpswwwroot = etc.

9. At the Moodle '''config.php''' configuration file, add the following line to set the default time zone (please use the [http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php List of supported timezones]):

date_default_timezone_set("''valid-timezone''");

For example, to set the time zone for Sofia, Bulgaria, add the following line:

date_default_timezone_set("Europe/Sofia");

'''Note'''. If possible, it would actually be better to add the time zone setting directive to the PHP '''php.ini''' configuration file (please see [http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php#ini.date.timezone PHP Runtime configuration]):

date.timezone ''valid-timezone''

You should also:

1. Enable [[Debugging]] (Administration > Development > Debugging): ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>admin/settings.php?section=debugging</code>, as this may provide possible useful information regarding the cause.

2. Check if your browser is showing some warning or error indications (watch the status bar).

For more details see any of the following forum threads https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=269877#p1166200, https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=166994 or https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=200243 or the tracker MDL-31678.

==How can I add a Twitter feed block?==

An HTML block can be used to display the latest tweets from any Twitter account. See [[HTML block]] for details.

==See also==

*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=2121 Blocks forum]

Using Moodle forum discussions:
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=195874 More problems with "Sticky" blocks in 2.2] with instructions on how to make blocks appear on all course pages

[[Category:FAQ]]

[[de:Block_FAQ]]
[[es:Bloques FAQ]]

Blocks FAQ

2015-10-20T17:30:21Z

Dylanromero: /* How do I make a block in my course visible to teachers but not students? */

{{Blocks}}
==How do I hide front page blocks from non-logged-in users?==

# Click the "Turn editing on" button at the top-right of the front page (you need to be logged in as an administrator)
# Click the assign roles icon (often a face and mask) in the header of the block to be hidden ('''NOTE''': Don't worry if you get an error message saying you are not able to assign roles)
# Scroll down to the settings block and click the Permissions link
# In the ''View block'' section, click the X next to ''Guest''
# Click the "Save changes" button
Alternatively, to hide all blocks from non-logged in users, you can go to ''Administration>Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles'' and edit the Guest role to disallow ''View block''.

==How do I show front page blocks to guests and hide them from logged in users?==
# Click the "Turn editing on" button at the top-right of the front page (you need to be logged in as an administrator)
# Click the assign roles icon (in the header of the block to be hidden ('''NOTE''': Don't worry if you get an error message saying you are not able to assign roles)
# Scroll down to the settings block and click the Permissions link
# In the ''View block'' section, click the X next to ''authenticated user''
# Click the "Save changes" button

==How do I get rid of a link in "Site Pages" in the Navigation block?==
When a resource or activity (like a page, file or forum) is added to the [[Main menu block]] on the front page, it will appear in the Site Pages of the Navigation block. If you need the item but don't want it to display then go to ''Site administration>Appearance>Navigation'' and uncheck "show front page activities in the navigation". If you no longer want the item then turn on the editing on the front page, go to or add the [[Main menu block]] and click to delete the item.

==How do I make a front page block visible to teachers but not students?==
It is possible to control who sees block on the front page. The following applies to any specified group of people, not just teachers and students.
# Ensure you have hidden your block from non-logged in users as in the instructions above
# In ''Administration>Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles'', click on "authenticated user on the front page"
# In the context type, select "block"
# Set ''moodle/block:view'' to "allow"
# Click "Save changes"
#Turn editing on on your front page.
#Click the "assign roles " icon on your block
#Click the blue words of "authenticated user on the front page" to access the screen where you can choose who you want to allow to see this block (such as your teachers) by moving them from the right hand box to the left
#Now click "Permissions" in your block's Administration settings
#Click the X next to "authenticated user" to prevent them viewing this block
#From now on, regular authenticated users will not be able to see the block - however, those who have been given the role of "authenticated user on the front page" will be able to see it

==How do I make a block in my course visible to teachers but not students?==
Here are two suggestions:

#Add a block to a page which only teachers can see, for example ''/grade/report/grader/index.php'' You could add a comments block for teachers to discuss and moderate each others' grades. Alternatively,you could add an HTML block to ''/badges/index.php'' with badge issuing policies. A block may also be added to ''enrol/users.php'' for notes or comments regarding enrolments.
#Add a block to the main course page and ask your administrator to go to ''Block>Assign roles>Permissions'' and prevent authenticated users and students from viewing the block. (A regular teacher cannot change permissions of authenticated users.)

==How can I change a Block item name from a list inside a block?==
You can change an item name in ''Settings>Site Administration > Language> Language customization'' Select the 'moodle.php' file then search for the words you need to alter.

==How to I make a block "sticky"?==
See [[Block settings]]. Using the edit icon in the block heading, go to the configuration page. Look for the "Where this block appears" group and "Display on page types". Depending upon your current context and permissions, you will see different options. One maybe "All pages" or "Any type of course main page", and others.

==Where did that block come from? I do not want it!==
Your site administrator or some one with more permissions than you decided that block should be there. It is possible to force a block to appear on other pages. For example, a site administrator my force a HTML block on every main course page and determine where it will be, so they may put site messages there.

Your site administrator can tell where every instance of a block appears via [[Blocks administration]].

==How can I decide the order in which blocks are docked?==
Blocks are "docked", from top to bottom (usually on the left) in the order in which you dock them.

==How can I add a block to all user profile pages?==

See [[User profiles]] for instructions.

==How can I prevent users from adding blocks to their dashboard page?==

See [[Dashboard]] for instructions.

==The blocks have disappeared from the front page/course page!==
This can sometimes be caused by users pasting from Microsoft Word which corrupts the formatting. See this forum post for more details https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=217390#p958884

==Help, I accidentally hid the administration block without realising the consequences!==

# Go to <nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.org/admin/blocks.php</nowiki>
# Unhide the administration block by clicking the closed eye icon opposite it

==I accidentally deleted the navigation (or administration) block!==

# Go to ''Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Blocks > Manage blocks'' (or via the URL <nowiki>http://yourmoodlesite.org/admin/blocks.php</nowiki>) and unprotect the navigation block by clicking the padlock icon
# Turn editing on in any course
# Go to the front page and use the 'Add a block' dropdown menu to add a navigation block there, setting it to display throughout the entire site
# Go back to ''Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Blocks > Manage blocks'' and re-protect the navigation block.

The above method works the same for the navigation and administration blocks.

==My Administration block links don't expand!==

This has been noticed as a Javascript problem. Given the many possible factors behind this issue, each situation is different. Please try to:

1. Use another browser or use another version of the same browser (try both, lower and higher versions).

2. [[Purge all cache]] (Administration > Development > Purge all caches): ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>admin/purgecaches.php</code>

3. Change the Use slash arguments option at the [[HTTP]] page (Administration > Server > HTTP): ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>admin/settings.php?section=http</code>

4. Try different settings at the [[AJAX and Javascript settings]] page (Administration > Appearance > AJAX and Javascript): ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>admin/settings.php?section=ajax</code>

* Enabling the Use online YUI libraries (''useexternalyui'') sometimes has solved the problem (see [http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-31678 tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-31678]).

5. [http://www.enable-javascript.com/ Turn off Javascript] in your browser (the linked site shows how to enable Javascript, so do the opposite)

6. [http://www.java.com/en/download/help/disable_browser.xml Turn off Java] (you should have it disabled anyway, unless you really need it)

7. Try using another theme: ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>theme/index.php</code>

8. If you are using the <code>$CFG->httpswwwroot</code> directive (for SSL login) at the '''config.php''' configuration file, try and comment it (add a double forward slash and a space "// " at the beginning of the line), like so:

// $CFG->httpswwwroot = etc.

9. At the Moodle '''config.php''' configuration file, add the following line to set the default time zone (please use the [http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php List of supported timezones]):

date_default_timezone_set("''valid-timezone''");

For example, to set the time zone for Sofia, Bulgaria, add the following line:

date_default_timezone_set("Europe/Sofia");

'''Note'''. If possible, it would actually be better to add the time zone setting directive to the PHP '''php.ini''' configuration file (please see [http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php#ini.date.timezone PHP Runtime configuration]):

date.timezone ''valid-timezone''

You should also:

1. Enable [[Debugging]] (Administration > Development > Debugging): ''<code>http://yoursite.com/</code>''<code>admin/settings.php?section=debugging</code>, as this may provide possible useful information regarding the cause.

2. Check if your browser is showing some warning or error indications (watch the status bar).

For more details see any of the following forum threads https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=269877#p1166200, https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=166994 or https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=200243 or the tracker MDL-31678.

==How can I add a Twitter feed block?==

An HTML block can be used to display the latest tweets from any Twitter account. See [[HTML block]] for details.

==See also==

*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=2121 Blocks forum]

Using Moodle forum discussions:
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=195874 More problems with "Sticky" blocks in 2.2] with instructions on how to make blocks appear on all course pages

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