Moodle components

Like most web pages, your Moodle course “main page” will divide information into certain sections or areas on the page. Dependent upon layout choices you make, you may see several section boxes down the central portion of the window with boxes, called “blocks” on either or both sides of the main sections. Within the main or block sections you may display text, images, and links to other pages or course activities.
• Course section: This is the course content visible on the main page of the course.
• Resources: These are additional text or html pages that you create for your course, web pages or websites to which you provide links, or access (through links) to files of virtually any type (Office documents, etc.) that you wish to have course students (participants) download for printing or study, or even to a directory (folder) listing of resources that may be downloaded for use.
• Activities: There are dozens of activity modules that have been developed for use in Moodle. We will explain and explore a few of these later in this workshop, but they include such things as questionnaires, quizzes, wikis, lessons, assignments, glossaries and forums. Activity modules can be added to and activated on your Moodle server by your site administrator.
• Blocks: Special purpose ‘sections’ that appear to the right and/or left of the main course section. These typically contain summary information and/or links to such things as the Administration (with links to various components that the user’s authority allows), Upcoming Events (with reminders of dates to note for the course or site and link to the course calendar), Latest News (with recent postings by teacher or others in the forums). Many other blocks can added, deleted or be chosen for viewing by course creators for the course students.