Book Image

Moodle 2.0 First Look

Book Image

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

Making a block sticky throughout our Moodle


Let's remind ourselves of what our front page looks like; it should look as shown in the following screenshot:

We see that there is a handy calendar on the right. A Moodle calendar will display site-wide dates of importance, events, and deadlines for classes or groups and can, of course, serve as a handy memory-jogger for individual users. This would be a valuable block to have everywhere on our Moodle site, so how do we go about achieving that and making the calendar block "sticky"?

We need to be admin on Moodle, as only the administrator can make blocks "sticky" everywhere. If we want to have an instance of the calendar block everywhere we need to head for one of the administration pages that are available from the Site administration link. We will add the calendar block to one of those pages and then make it sticky from there:

  1. Go to the Notifications page (for example) and turn on the blocks editing on the top right

  2. Select Calendar from the add...