using Moodle Preview 4.
I'm finding it difficult to understand the positioning behavior of the Settings block in a moodle course. I'm logged in as teacher, and using the standard theme to avoid behavior problems due to other themes.
When I enter my course, I can place the Settings/Course administration block in the right "column"/region, at the top, which is where I want all of my Settings blocks to always display.
I click Turn editing on
I click on the Update icon of one of my previously created Resources or Activities, e.g. a Glossary... the Settings/Glossary Administration is now displayed in the left column.
I try to move it, by clicking the Move icon but... the only small frames which show where I could drop the block are all located in the left column, none on the right.
I click on that block's Configuration icon, and I see:
Configuring a Settings block
- Block settings
- Where this block appears
- Page contexts
- Display throughout the entire site
- Restrict to these page types
- * (Any page)
- Default region
- Right
- Default weight -10 (first)
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- On this page
- Visible
- Region Right
- Weight -10
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The only settings that I can change as teacher are the On this page settings. But those settings already indicate that my block should be displayed on the right, which it isn't!
OK, now I switch Editing mode off, and I click on a resource, e.g. on the Glossary link in my course, surprise... now the Settings/Glossary Administration is displayed in the right column.
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Question 1: is there a bug with the location of the Settinngs block when clicking on the Update icon associated with each resource & activity?
Question 2: I thought one strong point of Moodle 2 was that it would be possible to put the blocks anywhere (including in the middle column, but I've no idea if this is possible); here it appears that it's not possible to move the Settings block to the right (at least it's not always possible).
Maybe this is dependent on a general admin setting?
Joseph 