The course overview is displayed on your dashboard and displays three dropdowns:

• An option to sort by All, In progress, Future, Past, Starred or courses that have been Removed from view

• An option to display courses by Course name or Last accessed

• An option to display course by Card, List or Summary view.

• To 'star' (bookmark) a course, click the three dots by its name and then click 'Star this course’

• To hide a course, click the three dots by its name and then click 'Remove from view'

• Courses may be filtered by ‘Starred’ or 'Removed from view’ courses. Alternatively, for starred courses, the ‘Starred courses’ block may be added to your dashboard.

• A number at the top of the screen reflects the number of people who have sent new messages

• Clicking the icon displays the messaging drawer, divided into starred messages, group messages and personal messages

• Contacts and contact requests may be accessed from the Contacts link

• To add a message to your starred (favourited) messages, a star may be added by clicking the three dots when viewing a message

• From the three dots, messages may be muted, so that email notifications of new messages are no longer sent

• Personal messaging space - Each user now has their own starred area where they can add draft messages, links and notes for later use

• The list is updated on a regular basis (the default is every 5 minutes).

• Clicking the message icon next to somebody's name, you will be able to send a private message to that person (using Moodle's messaging system)

• If you have the 'Online users' block added to your course, you can hold the cursor over somebody's name to see how long ago that person was last "seen" in the course.

Note:

• If separate groups are enabled in a course, and this block is added onto the course page, only members of the group will be visible to other group members within the 'Online users' block

• Even though a user may have been logged into a course within the last 5 minutes, it does not necessarily mean that this user is still online.

• Replying to discussions - Similar to when starting a new discussion, the reply box appears inline, allowing the user to quickly respond. If a more detailed reply is needed, for example, needing the editing toolbar or attachment box, clicking Advanced will display the full version.

• Star discussions - Discussions may be favourited or 'starred' either by clicking the three dots to the right of the discussion or by clicking directly on the star. This is an individual setting and will move the discussion to the top of the discussion list, under any pinned discussions.

• Sort discussions - Discussions may be sorted by replies, last post or created, by clicking the linked words at the top of the discussion list.

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