In a previous post in this Forum, Tony Ruggiero gave us a hack which allowed 'helpline' text to be added to the 'sidebar'. The code is below...
// Print helpline
print_side_block_start( "Campus Helpline", 210,"");
echo "<div align=\"center\"><strong>Need Help?</strong><br>Click on the links below<br>to get that help!</div><br>";
echo "<div align=\"left\"><a href=\"mailto:#############\"> Admissions...</a></div>";
echo "<div align=\"left\"><a href=\"mailto:#############\"> Financial aid help...</a></div>";
print_side_block_end();
print_spacer(1, 120, true);
}
What would be really helpful is if this could be made into an 'editable' box, like the course description. Would this be much work?? And does anyone want to take up the challenge?
With the oodles of moodlers out there, someone must be able to tell me if this is possible, and how much work it would be ... 
This would take about 15 minutes. There are hundreds of nice ideas of what one could have in sideboxes. For example the Alexis' DHTML menu, Jon's calendar mini view, the course summary, ... What would be really nice would be a GUI allowing one to include an arbitrary selection of user-contributed sideboxes.
Postnuke and that kind of programs have that mechanism, something like our moduls admin page..