Moodle 2.0

Blocks
Recent activity block
When the Recent activity block is added to a course's Home Page, it lists all of the
student and teacher activity in that course since the user's last login. The link for
Full report of recent activity displays a page that enables you to run reports on
course activity.
When added to the site's Front Page, this block lists all of the student and teacher
activity on the Front Page, but not in the individual courses, since the user's last
login. If someone is logged in as a guest user, this block displays activity since the
last time that Guest logged in. If guest users are constantly coming to your site, this
block may be of limited use to them. One strategy is to omit this block from the site's
Front Page, so that anonymous users don't see it, and add it only to courses that
require users to authenticate.
Remote RSS Feeds block
When the Remote RSS Feeds block is added to a course Home Page, the course
creator chooses or creates RSS feeds to display in that block.
This example below shows an RSS feed from an adventure racing site. This feed is
the result of the configuration shown in the following screenshot.
A feed can be added by the Site Administrator, and then selected by the course
creator for use in an RSS block. Alternatively, when the Course Creator adds the
RSS block, they can add a feed at that time. The new feed then becomes available to
all other Course Creators, for use in all other courses. This is similar to the way quiz
questions work. All quiz questions, no matter who created them, are available to all
Course Creators for use in their courses.
Search forums block
The Search forums block provides a search function for forums. It does not search
other types of activities or resources. When this block is added to the site's Front
Page, it searches only the forums on the Front Page.
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