Why is it thtat some blocks can be enabled (by me the admininstrator, not students or techers) only from the front page but not from a course? Specifically "main menu" (but noticed with others) Right now I have to got to Front Page, add the block then got to the settings make it available everywhere (which I do not want to do) then go turn it of picemeal throughout the site.
Hi Doug,
You can replicate the function of the Main Menu block with the Section block, which is configurable per instance. To display the contents of the Main Menu block in a course, configure the block and change the course id to the frontpage id (usually 1), and the section id to 0.
The availablility of any block is controlled by the "applicable_formats()" fuction found in "mysite.com/blocks/blockname/block_blockname.php".