Dashboard

About the Dashboard

The Dashboard is a customisable page for providing users with details of their progress and upcoming deadlines. In the centre is the Course overview on campus which allows students and teachers to easily track required activities and filter courses.

Default blocks are:

• Navigation
• Administration
• Course overview
• Private files
• Latest badges
• Calendar
• Upcoming events
• Online users

Preventing users from customizing their Dashboard

By default, users can customize their Dashboard and add blocks. An admin can prevent this as follows:

1. Go to Administration > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Define roles
2. Edit the authenticated user role and untick the Manage Dashboard blocks capability

Dashboard capabilities

• Manage Dashboard blocks (see above)
• Configure system templates for Dashboard

In addition, all blocks which may be added to a Dashboard have a myaddinstance capability (e.g. block/comments:myaddinstance) for controlling whether a user with a particular role can add the block.

Preventing users from adding a block to their Dashboard

By default, users can add many blocks to their Dashboard. An admin can prevent them from adding a particular block, such as the Online users block, as follows:

1. Go to Administration > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Define roles
2. Edit the authenticated user role and untick the Add a new online users block to the Dashboard capability

Blocks not available on the Dashboard

The following blocks may not be added to a user's Dashboard (because it wouldn't make sense):

• Course completion status block
• Course/site summary block
• Self completion block

See also

• Show Categories of courses on Dashboard after sign in forum discussion