Inside a category, when a user looks for the course descriptions, the name/link of the course is on the left, with the details of the course creator and all of the course description is squashed over to the right. This means that a detailed course description goes way down the page! Please could someone tell me how to make the course description spread across the whole page? I have tried SO hard to find the answer!
Thanks,
Coral
If you need more space for course descriptions you could edit standard theme styles_layout.css (or your custom theme css files) and change or add for example the following tags (75% for summary, 20% for info=name of course - leave some space for margins and paddings 5%:
.coursebox .summary {
float: right;
text-align:left;
width: 75%;
padding:5px;
}
.coursebox .info {
float: left;
text-align:left;
width: 20%;
padding:5px;
}
You could also move all blocks from right to left 
or from left to right 
(press turn editing on first)
... and if this is not enough you could press 
to delete all but Site Administration block from front page (you can get them back if needed from Blocks block on the right when you have pressed Turn editing on...)
You could also make font size smaller in summary css tags...or font size of text of Course Description itself
Where would I find the:
'standard theme styles_layout.css (or your custom theme css files)'Thanks,
Coral
You need to have access to folder theme on your server and inside theme folder you should find css file yourmoodle/theme/standard/styles_layout.css that can be edited with simple text editors like notepad. Other themes are inside theme folder too...
Thank you for your reply. As an administrator - is it something I can do, or do I have to be a developer? Sorry for being so thick.
Thanks
Coral
If editing theme css files sounds difficult moving/deleting blocks from front page should be easy - just turn editing on and test.
You don't need to be developer to edit those files - http://docs.moodle.org/en/Theme and http://docs.moodle.org/en/Theme_basics
Thank you for your help.
Best wishes
Coral
Just one more try - this is the page I am having problems with - is this what you are referring to when you say that I should delete blocks because I can't see which blocks to delete? I'll give up if I still don't understand after this, I promise!
The page is this one:
http://educademy.moodle.overnetdata.com/course/category.php?id=61
Best wishes
Coral
Thanks for the link. Your site is using a theme iggy and the only way you can change that page is css - moving blocks would help only if your site front page had courses by default.
So you should edit theme/iggy/styles_layout.css ... to change width of summary and info tags. 
And it does not help a lot because there are so many rows of text (lists). Combo list (front page settings) would show only 
in the place of course description but that's another story...
OnMouseOver popups would be handy in cases like this but moodle does not have them by default. Something like in http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm
to make descriptions shorter.
This is really helpful, because at least I know where to concentrate. For weeks I have been searching, thinking that I'd set something up wrongly. You've been very helpful - thanks.
Coral
