Standard blocks
Moodle gives you many standard blocks that you can add to your courses. Some of the most useful ones are discussed in the following sections.
The activities block
The Activities block lists all types of activities that are used in the course:
If a type of activity is not used in the course, the link for that type is not presented. The activity type is only shown if your course contains at least one instance of that type. When a user clicks on the type of activity, all those kinds of activities for the course are listed. In the following screenshot, the user clicked on Resources in the Activities block and a list of the resources in the course is presented:
Note
If this block is on the site's front page, clicking on a type of activity gives a list for the activities on the front page (not for the entire site).
The blog menu block
By default, every Moodle user has a personal blog on the site. Selecting this block, as seen in the following screenshot, puts the blog menu into...
