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Moodle 2.0 First Look

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Moodle 2.0 First Look

Overview of this book

Moodle is currently the world's most popular E-learning platform. The long-awaited second version of Moodle is now available and brings with it greatly improved functionality. If you are planning to upgrade your site to Moodle 2.0 and want to be up-to-date with the latest developments, then this book is for you.This book takes an in-depth look at all of the major new features in Moodle 2.0 and how it differs from previous Moodle versions. It highlights changes to the standard installation and explains the new features with clear screenshots, so you can quickly take full advantage of Moodle 2.0. It also assists you in upgrading your site to Moodle 2.0, and will give you the confidence to make the move up to Moodle 2.0, either as an administrator or a course teacher.With its step-by-step introduction to the new features of Moodle 2.0, this book will leave you confident and keen to get your own courses up and running on Moodle 2.0. It will take you on a journey from basic navigation to advanced administration, looking at the changes in resource management and activity setup along the way. It will show you new ways tutors and students can control the pace of their learning and introduce you to the numerous possibilities for global sharing and collaborating now available in Moodle 2.0
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle 2.0 First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Adding a block to courses in one category


We just saw how as admin or with appropriate permissions, we can add a block to a single course category page. We also saw as we did so that we had the option of adding the block to the courses themselves as well.

When and why might we want to do this? If it is a useful and relevant block for all courses in a category, then adding the block this way will save individual course teachers having to create the block themselves and will also create consistency across the category. One such block is the new Comments block.

The Comments block (which we'll study in greater depth in Chapter 7, New Modules for Moodle 2) allows users to make comments on courses, resources, and activities throughout Moodle. It would be useful for both Andy and Stuart as teachers to have a Comments block in order to get feedback from their students.

To achieve this, and assuming we have appropriate permissions, we need to start on the course category page again:

  1. With the editing...