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Latest revision as of 22:33, 30 September 2008

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

There are many different types of blocks in a course that can be used by a teacher. The teacher can add blocks from a pull down menu. Other blocks provide information or settings that a teacher may use. Some activities allow blocks to be inserted by the teacher.

Pull down

Each course has an add block pull down menu.

Blogs - Tags and Menu (from 1.6 onwards)

Calendar

Global Search block

HTML

Loan Calculator (from 1.6 onwards)

Mentees block (from 1.8 onwards)

Random Glossary Entry

Remote RSS Feeds

Section Links

Other blocks

Activities A block used by teachers to add activities

Administration Course Administration
Courses Lists student's courses
Course/Site Description Teacher's description of course
Latest News
Recent Activity
Search Forums
Upcoming Events
Youtube
Flickr

Course page block arrangement

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. The site administrator must turn this function on so that the teachers will be able to add side blocks on those pages, otherwise the interface does not show this feature to the teacher.

By default, this feature is disabled in the Site administration block. An administrator can enable it by checking the showblocksonmodpages box in Administration > Appearance > Themes > Theme settings. When enabled, users who can manage course activities will be able to add blocks to pages.

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 [[Image:Course edit on new 4.JPG|thumb|right|Default block positions for a new course page]]
-A course page contains blocks in the left and right columns.
+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==
+There are many different types of blocks in a course that can be used by a teacher. The teacher can add blocks from a pull down menu.  Other blocks provide information or settings that a teacher may use.  Some activities allow blocks to be inserted by the teacher.
-Here is a list of different types of blocks and links with more information:
+===Pull down===
+Each course has an add block pull down menu.
+{| border="0"
+| |
+{| border="2";"
+|[[Blogs|Blogs - Tags and Menu]] (from 1.6 onwards)
+|-
+|[[Calendar block|Calendar]]
+|-
+|[[Global Search block]]
+|-
+|[[HTML block|HTML]]
+|-
+|[[Loan calculator block|Loan Calculator]] (from 1.6 onwards)
+|-
+|[[Mentees block]] (from 1.8 onwards)
+|-
+|[[Messages block|Messages]]
+|-
+|[[Online Users block|Online Users]]
+|-
+|[[People block|People]]
+|-
+|[[Quiz Results]]
+|-
+|[[Random Glossary Entry]]
+|-
+|[[Remote RSS Feeds]]
+|-
+|[[Section Links]]
+|}
+| style="width:100px" |
+|[[Image:Block add dropdown list teacher 1 8.JPG]]
+|}
-*[[Activities block|Activities]]
+===Other blocks===
-*[[Administration block|Administration]]
+*[[Activities block|Activities]] A block used by teachers to add activities
-*[[Blogs|Blogs - Tags and Menu]] (from 1.6 onwards)
-*[[Calendar block|Calendar]]
+*[[Course administration block|Administration]] Course Administration
-*[[Courses block|Courses]]
+*[[Courses block|Courses]] Lists student's courses
-*[[Course/Site Description block|Course/Site Description]]
+*[[Course/Site Description block|Course/Site Description]] Teacher's description of course
-*[[HTML block|HTML]]
 *[[Latest News block|Latest News]]
-*Loan Calculator (from 1.6 onwards)
-*[[Mentees block]] (from 1.8 onwards)
-*[[Messages block|Messages]]
-*[[Online Users block|Online Users]]
-*[[People block|People]]
-*[[Quiz Results block|Quiz Results]]
-*[[Random Glossary Entry block|Random Glossary Entry]]
 *[[Recent Activity block|Recent Activity]]
-*[[RSS feeds block|RSS feeds]]
 *[[Search Forums block|Search Forums]]
-*[[Section Links block|Section Links]]
 *[[Upcoming Events block|Upcoming Events]]
+*[[Youtube block|Youtube]]
+*[[Flickr block|Flickr]]
 ==Course page block arrangement==
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 ==Adding blocks to activities==
+Certain activity modules, such as the [[Lesson module]] and the [[Quiz module]], support blocks on their pages. The site administrator must turn this function on so that the teachers will be able to add side blocks on those pages, otherwise the interface does not show this feature to the teacher.
-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 in the [[Site administration block]]. An administrator can enable it by checking the ''showblocksonmodpages'' box in ''Administration > Appearance > Themes > Theme settings''.  When enabled, users who can manage course activities will be able to add blocks to pages.
-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 FAQ]]
-* [[Blocks administration]]
+*[[Block permissions]]
+*[[Blocks administration]] - site block settings that an administrator can use
+*[[Site administration block]]
+*[[Development:Blocks]] - a developer guide to creating blocks
+*[[:Category:Block]] - an index of all block-related pages
+*[[:Category:Contributed code]] including a number of contributed blocks
+*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=2121 Blocks forum]
 [[Category:Block]]
+[[de:Blöcke]]
+[[eu:Irakaslearen_blokeak]]
 [[fr:Blocs (enseignant)]]

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