I have tried to think what is the best place to post this and as it
concerns the main course format of the front page I have posted it here.
In the "site settings option" of the of the site configuration one can
set various options for "Front page format:". This typically controls
how the front page is displayed either as news items or courses etc.
I have noticed that when I login
as an administrator I am shown all the available courses but if I login
as a normal user I am only shown the course for which I am registered
together with the course summary.
I have found that this makes navigation to other courses cumbersome for
new users, old hats will most probably add a "courses block" to the
front page but I find the layout and simplicity of the "available
courses" option to be better than the "my courses" information.
To that end I have edited the index.php file to be the following
///
if (isloggedin() && !isset($USER->admin) &&
empty($CFG->disablemycourses)) {
///
print_heading_block(get_string('mycourses'));
/// print_my_moodle();
/// } else {
if (count_records('course_categories') > 1) {
if ($CFG->frontpage == FRONTPAGECOURSELIST) {
print_heading_block(get_string('availablecourses'));
} else {
print_heading_block(get_string('categories'));
}
print_simple_box_start('center', '100%', '', 5, 'categorybox');
print_whole_category_list();
print_simple_box_end();
print_course_search('', false, 'short');
} else {
print_heading_block(get_string('availablecourses'));
print_courses(0, '100%');
}
/// }
as you can see I have just commented out the option that distinguishes the admin user from a normal user.
I would much rather be able to control this via the "Site Settings"
admin option and would appreciate if the developers could plan this for
the future.
Regards
Lindsay