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Blocks<br />

Latest news block<br />

When you create a new course, by default it has a News forum. The Latest news<br />

block displays the most recent postings from this forum.<br />

Even if the forum is renamed, this block still displays the postings for this forum.<br />

The number of postings displayed in this block is determined by the field News<br />

items to show.<br />

Recall that the Front Page of your site is another course. If the Latest news block is<br />

displayed on the site's Front Page, it displays the latest postings from the sitewide<br />

news forum, or Site News on the Course Settings page.<br />

If you have set the News forum to email students with new postings, you can be<br />

reasonably sure that the students are getting the news, so you might not need to<br />

display this block. However, if the news items are of interest to visitors not enrolled<br />

in the course, or if the course allows guest access, you probably want to display<br />

this block.<br />

Login block<br />

If a visitor is not logged in, <strong>Moodle</strong> displays small Login links in the upper-right<br />

corner and bottom center of the page. However, the links are not very noticeable. The<br />

Login block is much more prominent. The main advantage to the Login block over<br />

the small Login links is the block's greater visibility.<br />

If you want the Login block to be displayed on every page of your site, set Page<br />

contexts to Display throughout the entire site and Restrict to these page types to *.<br />

After the user logs in, this block disappears.<br />

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