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A course's appearance is effected by it's context and content. The site administration settings may force some appearance elements upon a course. In general, a teacher can make two courses look very different. | A course's appearance is effected by it's context and content. The site administration settings may force some appearance elements upon a course. In general, a teacher can make two courses look very different. | ||
==Teacher impacts== | ==Teacher impacts== | ||
The course appearance template lists the general areas that teachers will use to change the way their course looks. [http://www.demo.moodle.net demo.moodle.net] has examples of course that look very different from one another. | The course appearance template lists the general areas that teachers will use to change the way their course looks. [http://www.demo.moodle.net demo.moodle.net] has examples of course that look very different from one another. | ||
==Site administration impacts== | |||
The site may determine many default settings and may force other settings. Typically these settings can be found in the ''Settings > Site administration'' menu. For example the site may limit the use of themes in a course, or place a sticky block that will appear in every course's home page. Here is a list of potential places in the [[Site administration]] menu which have or contain sub-menus with settings that can impact what a user sees. | |||
*Advanced features | |||
*Course default settings | |||
*Grade settings | |||
*Language settings | |||
*Plugin settings | |||
**Activity | |||
**Blocks | |||
**Filters | |||
**Text editors | |||
**Repositories | |||
**Question behaviors | |||
**Question types | |||
**Local plugins | |||
*Appearance | |||
*Front pagee | |||
*Reports | |||
*Comments | |||
*Statistics | |||
Revision as of 11:44, 30 July 2011
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A course's appearance is effected by it's context and content. The site administration settings may force some appearance elements upon a course. In general, a teacher can make two courses look very different.
Teacher impacts
The course appearance template lists the general areas that teachers will use to change the way their course looks. demo.moodle.net has examples of course that look very different from one another.
Site administration impacts
The site may determine many default settings and may force other settings. Typically these settings can be found in the Settings > Site administration menu. For example the site may limit the use of themes in a course, or place a sticky block that will appear in every course's home page. Here is a list of potential places in the Site administration menu which have or contain sub-menus with settings that can impact what a user sees.
- Advanced features
- Course default settings
- Grade settings
- Language settings
- Plugin settings
- Activity
- Blocks
- Filters
- Text editors
- Repositories
- Question behaviors
- Question types
- Local plugins
- Appearance
- Front pagee
- Reports
- Comments
- Statistics
