Activities
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Shows the different activities that you've set up
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If you want your students to get to certain activities quickly, or see them listed
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Administration
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The teacher's admin block
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Essential for you, and it's where your students can see their grades
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Blog menu/tags
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Allows you to add and view blog entries and keywords in blogs
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Not really necessary as a block (we look at blogs in chapter 6)
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Calendar
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A calendar where you can show course, individual, or site wide events
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Useful if you have a lot of events that you want to remind your students about
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Courses
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Lists students courses
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A quick way for them to get around their courses
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Course description
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Shows the course summary that you put in the course settings
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Not really essential—they're doing the course now, after all!
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Global search
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Lets you search all of Moodle
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Has to be switched on by your admin—and you don't need it—leave it out!
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HTML
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A blank block for your own use
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Very handy—more details later
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Latest news
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Displays what's in the news forum
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If you want that, it's fine!
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Loan calculator
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It Calculates interest on loans
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Someone, somewhere must need it—but not us
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Mentees block
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Advanced block allowing mentors to 'watch' students
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We don't need it at this stage
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Messages
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Moodle's instant messaging service
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Needs to be switched on by your admin; useful for instant communication, but younger students may find it very distracting!
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Online users
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Shows who's accessing your course online at the moment
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Useful for making sure that everyone's there, on task
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People
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Lists those enrolled in your course, and when they last visited your course page
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Another useful block to keep a check on your participants.
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Quiz results
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Displays recent quiz results
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Handy for encouraging competition amongst students, by providing a league table of scores.
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Recent activity
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Who's done what and when
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Useful for students to see what's new, and for teachers to see who's sent in their work
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Random glossary entry
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Shows a glossary entry at a certain time (if you've got a glossary)
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Think about this when we are making a glossary in chapter 3; up to you
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Remote RSS feeds
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Shows news feeds of your choice
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Can be very useful— we'll look at this in the final chapter
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Search forums
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Allows students to search through forum entries
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Don't bother with this; I've never found it useful for my classes
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Section links
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A quick way to get to a numbered section
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If you want to, fine and good; useful if your sections are very long and need a lot of scrolling down
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Upcoming events
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Information about what's coming soon, taken from the calendar or activity deadlines
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If you have a lot of events or deadlines it's useful.
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