Moodle 2.0

Course/site description
The Course/Site Description block displays the course summary, taken from the
Chapter 9
course's Settings page. This is the same course summary that is displayed when
someone clicks on the Information icon in the course listing on the front page of
the site.
HTML block
The HTML block creates a block in the sidebar that can hold any HTML (any
web content) that you can put on a web page. Most experienced web users are
accustomed to the content in sidebars being an addition to the main content of
a page. For example, we put menus and interesting links in the sidebars in most
blogging software. I suggest you adhere to that standard and use the HTML block
to hold content that is an interesting addition to, but not part of, the course. For
example, you could put an annotated link to another site of interest.
Think of an HTML block as a miniature web page that you can put into the sidebar
of your course.
When you edit an HTML block, Moodle provides the same full-featured web page
editor that you get when adding a web page to a course.
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