Blocks

Default block positions for a new course page

A teacher can utilize many kinds of blocks in a course page. Typically a course home page contains blocks in the left and right columns.

Block types

Here is a list of different types of blocks and links with more information:

• Activities
• Administration
• Blogs - Tags and Menu (from 1.6 onwards)
• Calendar
• Courses
• Course/Site Description
• HTML
• Latest News
• Loan Calculator (from 1.6 onwards)
• Mentees block (from 1.8 onwards)
• Messages
• Online Users
• People
• Quiz Results
• Random Glossary Entry
• Recent Activity
• RSS feeds
• Search Forums
• Section Links
• Upcoming Events

Course page block arrangement

The People block with editing turned on

Teachers, and other users with the capability to manage course activities, can change the arrangement of blocks on the course page (apart from Sticky blocks) when editing is turned on.

New blocks can be added using the Add blocks dropdown menu. Existing blocks (apart from Sticky blocks) can be hidden, deleted or moved using the icons in the block header.

Adding blocks to activities

Certain activity modules, such as the Lesson module and the Quiz module, support blocks on their pages. If you turn this on, then teachers will be able to add side blocks on those pages, otherwise the interface does not show this feature.

By default, this feature is disabled. It can be enabled by an administrator by checking the showblocksonmodpages box in Administration > Appearance > Themes > Theme settings.

If enabled, teachers, and other users with the capability to manage course activities, can add side blocks to these pages.

See also

• Blocks administration