Previous years' modules

If a module from a previous year that you were enrolled on is not visible in your Module Overview under the Current modules tab, click on the Previous modules tab.

How to: Navigate to modules NOT in your Module Overview  

If you are an Observer across your School category in Moodle you will have access to lots of modules but at a category level.  This means because you are not enrolled onto the individual modules they will not appear in your Module Overview on your Dashboard.  So, you'll need to navigate to them in a different way.

To navigate to your School category or an individual module do the following:

• click on the Hamburger menu (see below) and select Site Home (see below). 
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• From here you can either Search for a particular module using its code or its title, or you can click on the section headings in the list illustrated below e.g. UNUK for UK modules to browse the hierarchy to find a course. 

• Clicking the section heading opens a list of categories (Faculties) in Moodle. Their subcategories (Schools and Departments) are revealed by clicking on the small grey arrow icon 
• Scroll down until you have found the required Faculty or Division and browse by either clicking the small grey arrows, or clicking the full link.  Clicking the full link will open a new page with the subcategories.
  
  Here is an example in Engineering > Chemical Engineering:

Click on Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering > MSc to get a list of modules

• To enter a module, click on the module title. This will open the module’s front page displaying all the materials.
  
  
• There are three main categories, UNUK, UNNC, UNMC: your Faculty category and School/Department subcategories will be located within one of these

Key links

To make navigating to your School sub-category easier you may want to create a Key Links block on your My Home page.  See the help document below for guidance. 

Moodle Help & Support 

 

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