AJAX and Javascript settings
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AJAX (short for asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is required for functionality such as drag and drop. In older versions of Moodle it was possible to disable it, but in recent versions the setting was removed, and now it is always enabled.
Activity chooser default
See the section 'Activities and resources' in Course homepage for details of the activity chooser.
See also
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