Technology & Instruction for UNEX

Link to PDF version of post. Prior to version 2 of Moodle, if you were creating a new 10 week class and needed a Forum in each week, you needed to set up each Forum individually. That was a very tedious process. There are a couple of features in Moodle 2.4 that make this a little bit easier. The Duplicate feature allows you to create a copy of any Activity or Resource with just a couple of clicks. The Quick Rename feature lets you change the name of an Activity or Resource without going into the Settings page. In this tutorial, we will use both features to duplicate a Forum . Forum I've added a Forum to my course and left Editing turned on. We'll use the Duplicate option to make a copy of this Forum . Duplicate Click the Duplicate icon next to the Resource or Activity you wish to copy. Duplicate Dialog Box Click the Continue button to Duplicate the Resource or Activity . Edit the copy To make changes to the Resource o...

Link to PDF version of this post . The dock was introduced in Moodle 2.0 and it allows students and teachers to customize the look of the class home page by moving blocks off of the home page and into the dock, located on the upper left edge of the browser window. The following instructions cover how to dock and undock blocks. The advantages of docking blocks is that they remove some of the clutter on the screen by getting items that may be used less frequently out of the way. They also allow access to blocks from the dock, something that is very handy when you have scrolled down on the class home page. Without the dock, you would need to scroll all the way back up to see the blocks. Instead, they are always accessible at the upper left edge of your browser window. The option to move blocks to the dock can be turned off system-wide. Three column class home page The contents of a class will appear in the same format as it did in Moodle 1.9. By default, each class has t...