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Customise your personal My home page by adding an empty block which you can use for key links, personal information or a widget.
This refers to Moodle 3.6 8 from July 2019 September 2020 onwards
How to add a custom HTML block to your Dashboard or module page
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- Browse to the Moodle category or frequently used website you want to link to
- Select the URL in the browser address bar and copy that URL
- Open another Moodle window or tab
- Go to Dashboard
- Click “Customise this page” on top right OR on a module click Turn Editing On (top right)
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- Click on the Hamburger menu
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- Select HTML from the menu
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- Wait for the screen to refresh and then scroll down to the bottom of the right-hand column again, where you will see (new HTML block)
- Click on the Actions icon (the cogwheel) for that block and select the Configure (new HTML block) block option
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- Give it a Block title (e.g., Favourites, My Links or Key Links)
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- In the Content box create the text you want to turn into a text link, e.g. School of Economics or Workspace
- Select the text
- Click the link icon (a chain link) (see illustration above)
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- Paste the URL that you copied at the beginning (or type in a URL)
- If you want the link to open the website in another window tick the Open in new window box
- Click Create link
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- Create and select text and add links for other websites or categories you would like to link to in your Key Links block
- Finally click Save changes
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