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Change your front page

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Site home

  • Your Moodle front page is known as Site home.
  • With MoodleCloud sites, you just see the login page until you are logged in.

Change site name and course information

  1. Log in with your administrator account
  2. Click Site administration
  3. From the General tab, click Site home settings. (Your Moodle front page is called 'Site home'.)
  4. Change the long and short name of your site here.
  5. Decide which items will be shown to non-logged in and logged in users from the two drop downs.
  6. Click Save changes
How to customise your front page

Add a site summary to the central area

  1. Log in with your administrator account and go to the front page/Site home
  2. Click the cog/Edit icon top right to turn on the editing
  3. Click the cog/Edit icon on the left to display a text editor where you can add your site information.

Landing page when logged in

  • By default your users will be sent to their personal Dashboard page once they have logged in. This gives information about courses they are enrolled in.
  • You can change this so that they go to the Site home (front page) if you prefer.
  1. Log in with your administrator account
  2. Click Site administration
  3. Click the Appearance tab
  4. Click Navigation
  5. Change the Home page for users to Site.