Mary Cooch

What version of moodle are you using?

Hi Andrew. The "database" that Maryel refers to is a standard module when you turn on the editing and go to "add an activity" you will see it there. It is a communal area where people - students for example - can upload or add information. On this site if you go to the downloads>modules and plugins tab or if you go to the support>books tab both of those are examples of a moodle database module.

Hi there. We have a Moodle jobs database you might like to add your request into there: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=7232

Ah! (lightbulb above head moment!) This is the definitive answer
Steven - if I am wrong I will send you a virtual pint:
Go to your front page and turn on your editing and then delete the block that, as Francis says, is between the upcoming events and latest news. Click on it with the x to delete - it is an html block into which a student or someone else in school. has inserted some javascript from that free site I linked to in my earlier post. I am really annoyed with myself I didn't read the code properly to work it out in the first instance - all credit to Francis for spotting the space between the 2 other blocks.
(I'll do it for you if you want to give me a log in but I presume you are experienced with editing the front page)

If you know who the bulk of your users are can you not simply enrol them manually into their courses and then set the enrolment key - that you only tell to the others with restricted access? Alternatively your bulk users would only need enter the password once when they first go into a course so why not give them the password (maybe via mass email) so they can enrol - and then change it -so the guests can't get in to any course unless you tell them the new password/enrolment key.