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When you set up your Moodle site for your students, you may want to customize the My Moodle Home page to show only what you want there. By Default, The My Moodle Home page is set to show the Course overview. This can be changed in your Site Administration section of your Moodle admin.<\/p>\n

In this tutorial we will explain how to remove the Course Overview from the My Moodle Home page and add the Course categories in its place. Below are the steps to change the My Moodle home page on your site.<\/p>\n

Customizing the Default My Moodle page<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. Log into the Moodle Dashboard<\/a>.\n

    Important!<\/strong> Keep in mind that Editing must be turned on<\/a> in the Settings section in order to edit any of these options.
    <\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  2. \"Select<\/a>\n
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    Go to Home<\/strong> > Site administration<\/strong> > Appearance<\/strong> > Default My Moodle page<\/strong>.
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  3. \"Add<\/a>\n
  4. \"Click<\/a>\n
    <\/div>\n

    Click the Move<\/strong> icon in the Course categories block options.
    <\/p><\/li>\n

  5. \"Bounding<\/a>\n
  6. \"Delete<\/a>\n
  7. \"Confirm<\/a>\n
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    Confirm the deletion of the block.
    <\/p>\n

    \"My<\/a><\/p>\n

    <\/div>\n

    Now the My Moodle Home page will show only the Courses.
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    When you set up your Moodle site for your students, you may want to customize the My Moodle Home page to show only what you want there. By Default, The My Moodle Home page is set to show the Course overview. This can be changed in your Site Administration section of your Moodle admin. In Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moodle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nChanging the Default My Moodle page | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"To customize the students home page you will need to edit the Default My Moodle page. 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