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Blocks can be added to the side of course pages for to display additional information to be displayed or to include additional features to be used in your course.
Blocks can be moved around or deleted.
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On the left side of your course page, scroll down to the Add a block block. Click Add… and from thedrop-down select the name of the block you wish want to add.
Adding a block will cause the page to reload. Locate the newly added block on the left-hand side of your course page.
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To move a block, click and hold the drag and drop icon 
on the right top corner of the block and drag it the block to a new position.
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Remove a block
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Go to the course page and Turn editing on.
To remove a block, click the cog icon on the right top corner of the block and from the drop-down click Delete block.
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Block | Description | Useful links |
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Accessibility | Provide users with accessibility tools to customise Moodle pages. Some of these features, include changing the default page font-size and colour scheme. | |
Activities | Quickly access activities in a Moodle course. This block lists all activities in your course grouped by type of activity (Forums, Assignments, Quizzes and so forth). | |
Administration | Depending on your role and permissions in Moodle. This blocks provides links for the administration of a course, activity activities and resources pages. | |
Blog menu | Quickly access and/or enter a course’s course blog entries. | |
Blog tags | Displays a list of a course blogs where a . A bigger font-size indicates the most frequently used blogs. | |
Calendar | Displays course and site events in a calendar , such as assignment deadlines. | |
Compile discussions | This block will list all the forums and open forums in a course, in two drop-down menus. Selecting a forum from the menu will display all discussions in that forum, in a nested layout, on a single page. This can be convenient is useful for exporting or printing forum discussions. | |
Completion Progress | Displays the activities/resources of a course that have has been (or not been yet) completed by a student. | |
Course overview | This block enables students to check their course progress and view upcoming deadlines. It allows teachers to easily see activities needing grading. | |
Course/site summary | It displays Displays the course description. | |
Courses | It lists links to all courses in which the user is enrolled on. | |
E-journal link fixer | Adds the required prefixes to the URL of a journal article. | |
Global search | Enables site-wide text searches in Moodle, to easily find specific content in all Moodle pages. | |
HTML | As a course editor, use this block to to add custom text, multimedia or widgets. | |
Latest announcements | Displays recent announcements posted form the course an announcement forum in a course. | |
Latest badges | Displays the users earned badges. | |
Learning plans | Quickly access learning plans. | |
Library search | Searches items from the library catalogue. | |
Logged in user | Displays the profile of the user who is currently logged in Moodle. | |
Navigation | Provide Provides navigation links to navigate Moodle’s site and course pages. | |
Quickmail | Provides selective, bulk emailing within courses. | |
Recent activity | Displays participants updates since they last accessed the course. | |
Search forums | Enables text-searches in the a course forums. | |
Section links | Quickly navigate to a particular topic/week section of the course. | |
Social activities | Enables additional activities to be added to a course in using the social course format. | |
Upcoming events | Lists upcoming events from the Calendar. |
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