Martin Dougiamas

I think this is all pretty much nailed now in Preview 2. Try it out!

For your case, you would:

1) Force the site page to be Home
2) Edit the My Home page to add default blocks you want your students to see
3a) Change permissions if required to stop students customising My Home any further, or
3b) Make some of those default blocks sticky so that they can't be changed, while still allowing students to add their own

Some tutorials / docs for all this are needed. But I think every scenario (from total admin control to total user control) is covered.

I'm working through the backlog But looking though CVS to find the right person is not a bad idea either!

This may interest you: https://www.ohloh.net/p/moodle/analyses/latest

Here's how to use CVS: http://docs.moodle.org/en/CVS_for_Administrators

And here's how I would retrieve a really old version of Moodle from CVS:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@eu.cvs.moodle.org:/cvsroot/moodle co -P -D "23 November 2001" moodle

Good luck!

I have some of these somewhere around on a CDROM .... why do you want them?

You can also use CVS to go back pretty far, try scrolling down to the bottom of http://cvs.moodle.org/moodle/version.php

See also http://cvs.moodle.org/moodle/index.php?revision=1.1&view=markup for the first version of /index.php. Back then there wasn't any versions or cvs tags, you'd have to use CVS to extract the first CVS revision by date (22 November, 2001).

Oh I fixed that error some hours ago