Moodle

Add the $CFG->defaultblocks functions to adminmenu

Details

  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 1.9
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Blocks
  • Labels:
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  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_19_STABLE

Description

It would be fine to add this function in the admin menu. Lots of admins doesn't know that there is a feature to change the settings for basic course room block design. Most Moodle systems contain only the standard setting of blocks.

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Mary M Rydesky added a comment -

This has been a quest for me since I started using Moodle long ago....and has taken several years to even find someone who understood the issue enough to suggest what to do about it!

The ability to (1) have blocks in what I called the closed state when users open their courses would clean up the view. I mean that they would see PEOPLE and open it to see PARTICIPANTS or see ACTIVITIES and then open it to get to ASSIGNMENTS, etc. And (2) The way we can re-order activities within the units in a course is so easy - but when I add a block and want it to be the second on the left side, I seem to have to click click click the up arrows one by one to get there The acitivities can be placed at will; blocks seem to have to be shuffled one step at a time.

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Mary M Rydesky added a comment - This has been a quest for me since I started using Moodle long ago....and has taken several years to even find someone who understood the issue enough to suggest what to do about it! The ability to (1) have blocks in what I called the closed state when users open their courses would clean up the view. I mean that they would see PEOPLE and open it to see PARTICIPANTS or see ACTIVITIES and then open it to get to ASSIGNMENTS, etc. And (2) The way we can re-order activities within the units in a course is so easy - but when I add a block and want it to be the second on the left side, I seem to have to click click click the up arrows one by one to get there The acitivities can be placed at will; blocks seem to have to be shuffled one step at a time.
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Ralf Hilgenstock added a comment -

Hi Mary,

thats not my point. Activating AJAX in website administration and personal profile you can move blocks with your mouse easily.

But creating a new course you get a default configuration of blocks on the left and on the right side. Defining this default settings is my point.

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Ralf Hilgenstock added a comment - Hi Mary, thats not my point. Activating AJAX in website administration and personal profile you can move blocks with your mouse easily. But creating a new course you get a default configuration of blocks on the left and on the right side. Defining this default settings is my point.
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Red Morris added a comment -

I would like to see this added to make it easier to choose the default blocks and their order

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Red Morris added a comment - I would like to see this added to make it easier to choose the default blocks and their order

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