This refers to Moodle 4.3 from August 2024 onwards

How to add a custom HTML block to your Dashboard or module page

You can use a HTML block on your Dashboard to hold anything from links to widgets.

One of the commonest uses for this might be to create a Quick Links block on your Dashboard for links to frequently-visited modules, activities, school categories or to external websites.

How to create a Favourites/Bookmarks block on your Dashboard or (if you're an editing teacher) a custom links block in your module 

Preliminary - if you want to add a URL

• 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

In Moodle

• Open a Moodle window or tab
• Go to your Dashboard  (OR go to your module page, if you want to add the block to a module)
• Click the 'Edit mode' toggle switch to turn editing on, located at the top right of the page
  
  
  
  
• On your dashboard, click 'Add a block' which is located in the central content area.

If adding the block to a module page, The 'Add a block' option appears in the block drawer on the right-hand side of the screen. 

• In the Add a block menu choose the Text option
  

• The Block settings window will appear. Within the 'Text block title' enter the name of your block. Within the 'Content' window enter the text you want to turn into a hyperlink. 
  
• Select the text you want to turn into a hyperlink and then press the link button.
  
• Paste the URL that you copied at the beginning (or type in a URL or link to an email address)
  
• Click on Create link

• Create and select text and add links for other websites or categories you would like to link to in your block 
• Click on Save changes
• Remember to click on the toggle switch at the top right of the page to turn off editing when you've finished making the block

Similar tutorials

The following other resources are also relevant to this topic:

• Moodle blocks
• How to move blocks around the page
• Block settings explained