Tutorial: Start setting up your course

• Blocks provide extra information on the side of your course.
• You can add blocks by enabling Edit mode top right, opening the Block drawer and then clicking to Add a block.
• Think carefully before you add blocks to ensure they are useful.
• Teachers can add and remove blocks with the editing turned on. Admins can make some blocks "sticky" so they display throughout the site. These cannot be removed by teachers.
• Some blocks, such as Text blocks may be added more than once in a course.

 The following video explains what blocks are.

What are blocks?

As a teacher you can add blocks to the side of your main learning area.

In this course using the standard Boost theme, the blocks are on the right

Blocks are elements which add extra information or learning content to your course.In our teacher Sam's new course, there are no blocks at the moment but she can add some by enabling

Edit mode top right, then expanding the block drawer and clicking Add a block.

Here she can choose useful blocks to add to the course.

Which blocks are available depends on the administrator’s settings.

Sam adds a Search forums block and an Online users block.

Once added, blocks may be hidden or deleted by clicking the icon.

They may also be moved around either with the crosshairs icon by clicking and holding the crosshairs icon and selecting a location to move them to - or by simply dragging and dropping.

Here for example Sam is dragging the Online users block underneath the Search forums block.