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Keywords: navigation, news, settings, calendar, supplementary, contact details.
Blocks display information such as navigation menus, calendar information, latest announcements, current online users etc.
Blocks can be added to the right side of the Moodle course homepage.
Blocks contain supplementary information to what's contained in the centre of the page (e.g. you might add contact details) and some blocks help your students to navigate the materials more easily.
Tutors and course administrators (who have course editing rights) can add blocks.
Students can view some blocks - to check what blocks they see, click your profile initials and select 'Switch role to...' and select 'Student'. And you can switch back when you're done using the same method but instead, select 'Return to my normal role').
Note, that the blocks drawer will start off collapsed (minimised) on the right-hand side of the course page on smaller devices and also when the browser window is reduced in width but can be opened by clicking the left-facing chevron icon [<]. Therefore, you might like to minimise the number of blocks you include on your page.
Depending on the Moodle theme, you can choose to add blocks to the left, right or both sides of your Moodle course homepage and also on some activities and resources.
The UCL Connected Learning Baseline suggests the following for Structure :
To delete a block, click the cog icon and from the drop-down menu choose to delete it.
Note: If you delete the 'Contact Details' block you may want to copy the HTML into a text file before deleting it, so you can easily add it back again in the future. All other blocks can be brought by adding them again.
Further help
Further guidance on Blocks is available from Moodle Docs..
If you find any inaccurate or missing information you can even update this yourself (it's a communal wiki).
If you have a specific question about the tool please contact the Digital Education team.
Due to web browser size or device, it may seem that your blocks have 'disappeared' from the right-hand side, in this case, open the block drawer by clicking the chevron icon [<] from the upper right-hand corner of a course page. You can click this icon anytime to see more or less of the main course homepage.
The Calendar block can be accessed in the Upcoming events block by clicking 'Go to calendar...', or by clicking the calendar icon at the very top of the Moodle page.
The HTML block - is now called the Text... block
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There are many blocks available - here is a useful descriptive list of UCL Moodle blocks.
Here are a few blocks in particular that we recommend for New Moodle:
Some blocks that we recommended in the past have been made redundant by tabs and drop-down menus that now appear at the top of the screen when you're in Moodle. These include:
Also, see: