09. What are blocks in Moodle 3.3 Video Lecture | Moodle: Create Personalized Online Class - Professional Skills

What are blocks?
As a teacher you can add
blocks to the side of your main learning
area.
In this course, using a variation of
the Boost theme, the blocks are on the right.
In this course with the different theme,
there are blocks on both sides and note
that this course does not have the nav drawer.
Instead there's a navigation block
and an administration block.
If your organisation's Moodle site has a
navigation and administration block
instead of the nav drawer, ask your admin
to help you find tutorials suitable for
your Moodle site
from our Moodle HQ youtube channel.
Blocks are
elements which add extra information or learning
content to your course.
Think carefully before adding blocks
because the mobile app doesn't display them.
So only choose blocks you feel will
be essential to your students' learning
as they take up space on the screen.
On a small screen blocks will move down
underneath the course sections as here.
Other themes will allow you to dock or
move blocks to the side such as here
and it's important to remember this as
learners sometimes forget they have
docked blocks and they become confused.
In our teacher, Sam's new course, there
are no blocks at the moment but she can
add blocks by turning on the editing
from the gear menu and then clicking the
add block link in the nav drawer.
Here she can choose useful blocks to add to
her course.
Once added, blocks may be hidden or
deleted from the gear menu.
They may also be moved around with the crosshairs
icon
by dragging and dropping or by clicking
and holding the crosshairs icon and
selecting a location to move them to.
Here Sam is moving the latest badges
block underneath the online users block.
We'll explore useful blocks in a later video.