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Moodle E-Learning Course Development

By : William Rice, William Rice
Book Image

Moodle E-Learning Course Development

By: William Rice, William Rice

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Moodle E-Learning Course Development Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
8
Evaluating Students with Quizzes
10
Collaborating with Wikis and Glossaries
Index

Configuring where a block appears


You can configure a block to appear on the course's home page, and on all the resource and activity pages in the course. You can also configure a block to appear on all the courses in a category.

For example, in the following screenshot, the user is configuring the Upcoming Events block in the Introduction to Environmental Science course:

These settings work in combination to determine where a block appears. In some places, some of these settings have no effect. Following is a list of the combinations that you might find most useful.

When you add a block to a page, any display settings that you choose will affect the block from that page on, down through the hierarchy of pages. For example, suppose you add a block to the main page of a course, as the user is doing in the preceding screenshot. Any display settings will affect the block on that page, and other pages inside that course.

Because this block is being added to a course page, the block will not be displayed...