Moodle: ‘Recent Activity’ & ‘HTML’ Blocks
Use these Moodle Blocks to improve the look and feel of your courses.
Featured Blocks
Recent Activity
- Show participants updates since they last accessed the course.
- Can relieve a lot of anxiety in students who are worried about missing something important.
- Lists course activity, such as updated resources and activities, forum posts and assignment submissions, since the user last accessed the course.
HTML
- Flexible and can incorporate a variety of functions and uses.
- It has the standard Moodle Text editor for formatting text, adding images or creating links, switching to code view
- Allows embedding video, sounds and other files which can add unique elements to a course or site page.
Accessibility
- Allows users to customise Moodle to their visual needs.
- Customisations save to the user’s session, allowing them to persist between pages.
- Integrates ATBar from Southampton University. (extra tools and customisation options, including dictionary lookup and Text-to-speech.
- Supports changing of text sizes and colour schemes.
Activities
- The Activities block lists the different activities and resources available in your course (Forums, Quizzes, Assignments, Lessons and so forth) and provides links to the index page for each activity or resource.
- The activities list will grow as you add activities to your course.
Moodle: ‘Recent Activity’ & ‘HTML’ Blocks
Use these Moodle Blocks to improve the look and feel of your courses.
Featured Blocks
Recent Activity
- Show participants updates since they last accessed the course.
- Can relieve a lot of anxiety in students who are worried about missing something important.
- Lists course activity, such as updated resources and activities, forum posts and assignment submissions, since the user last accessed the course.
HTML
- Flexible and can incorporate a variety of functions and uses.
- It has the standard Moodle Text editor for formatting text, adding images or creating links, switching to code view
- Allows embedding video, sounds and other files which can add unique elements to a course or site page.
Accessibility
- Allows users to customise Moodle to their visual needs.
- Customisations save to the user’s session, allowing them to persist between pages.
- Integrates ATBar from Southampton University. (extra tools and customisation options, including dictionary lookup and Text-to-speech.
- Supports changing of text sizes and colour schemes.
Activities
- The Activities block lists the different activities and resources available in your course (Forums, Quizzes, Assignments, Lessons and so forth) and provides links to the index page for each activity or resource.
- The activities list will grow as you add activities to your course.
Moodle: ‘Recent Activity’ & ‘HTML’ Blocks
Use these Moodle Blocks to improve the look and feel of your courses.
Featured Blocks
Recent Activity | HTML | Accessibility | Activities |
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Show participants updates since they last accessed the course. |
Flexible and can incorporate a variety of functions and uses. |
Allows users to customise Moodle to their visual needs. |
The Activities block lists the different activities and resources available in your course (Forums, Quizzes, Assignments, Lessons and so forth) and provides links to the index page for each activity or resource. |
Can relieve a lot of anxiety in students who are worried about missing something important. | It has the standard Moodle Text editor for formatting text, adding images or creating links, switching to code view | Customisations save to the user’s session, allowing them to persist between pages. | The activities list will grow as you add activities to your course. |
Lists course activity, such as updated resources and activities, forum posts and assignment submissions, since the user last accessed the course. | Allows embedding video, sounds and other files which can add unique elements to a course or site page. |
Integrates ATBar from Southampton University. (extra tools and customisation options, including dictionary lookup and Text-to-speech. Supports changing of text sizes and colour schemes. |