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The navigation block appears on every page of the site. It contains an expanding tree menu which includes My Home, Site Pages, My Profile, and Courses. What appears in the navigation block depends on the role of the user, where they are in the Moodle site, and any settings that have been applied globally.
Overview
The navigation block has links which can be expanded or collapsed.When logged in, a regular user will see the following as default:
My Home
This takes the user directly to their personal dashboard, sometimes known as My Moodle
Site pages
This expands to show pages and resources available site wide, for example, user blogs and a calendar. Any items which have been added to the front page, such as resources/activities from the Main Menu block, or the Site News will also appear here. Other items depend on the role of the user, so an administrator will see reports and notes, for instance.
My courses
This expands to show courses the users is enrolled in. Note that an administrator sees this link as "Courses", which expands to the course categories.
Here are examples of a 2.0 Standard theme's navigation block in collapsed mode and one that has the higher links opened one level.
 Navigation block on Front Page |
 Site Front Page links expanded |
 Front Page, course links expanded |
 A course's links expanded |
Site Administrators can configure the site level Navigation Block. Teacher and Student roles have limited options to configure the position of the Navigation Block on their MyMoodle page.
Log in, go to the course area, Turn Editing On, then select the Edit icon in the Navigation Block. Then configure the following settings.
Allow users to dock this block
This allows users to free up screen area if they need to, displaying a link to the Navigation Block in a tab at the side.
Display categories as links
As long as Display Categories is enabled in Site Administration > Appearance > Navigation (which it is by default), this setting can be enabled.
Where Categories display as links, clicking on those links opens the category page, whereas clicking on the small arrowhead pulls down a further menu of its courses. It may be helpful to induct users to this distinction.
Trimming
Long titles wrap over several lines, and this can affect the readability of a menu.
Enabling trimming removes characters which exceed an optional limit for each menu item. There is an option to remove characters from the beginning, middle, or end of the title.
The options in this setting allow you to configure how far the menu should expand.
- Everything
- the menu expands to allow access to any page in any of your course areas.
- Categories and courses
- the menu expands as far as listing links to the course areas in each category.
- Categories, courses and course structures
- the menu expands as far as listing the section titles in each course area (these display unlinked).
- Categories, courses and course activities
- the menu expands to allow access to any page in any of your course areas.
