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Creating new courses without extra blocks

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Hello,

I was wondering if anyone knows if there's a way to create a new course without any blocks automatically added? Every time I have to create a new training, the system adds Search Forums, Latest News, Upcoming Events and Recent Activity blocks (see attached image), but we do not need those in most of our classes, so I end up having to delete them over and over again.

If anyone know if there's a setting somewhere where I can turn off the auto block generation, or another way to stopping this, please let me know.

Thank you,

Marina Zelinskaya

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Hi Marina

There is a description in the config-dist.php file on the setting options for the default blocks for new courses

Add to the config.php file the blocks you want to appear For example

$CFG->defaultblocks_override = 'participants,activity_modules,search_forums,course_list:news_items,calendar_upcoming,recent_activity';

// These variables define DEFAULT block variables for new courses

// If this one is set it overrides all others and is the only one used.

// $CFG->defaultblocks_override = 'participants,activity_modules,search_forums,course_list:news_items,calendar_upcoming,recent_activity';

// These variables define the specific settings for defined course formats.

// They override any settings defined in the formats own config file.

// $CFG->defaultblocks_site = 'site_main_menu,course_list:course_summary,calendar_month';

// $CFG->defaultblocks_social = 'participants,search_forums,calendar_month,calendar_upcoming,social_activities,recent_activity,course_list';

// $CFG->defaultblocks_topics = 'participants,activity_modules,search_forums,course_list:news_items,calendar_upcoming,recent_activity';

// $CFG->defaultblocks_weeks = 'participants,activity_modules,search_forums,course_list:news_items,calendar_upcoming,recent_activity';

// These blocks are used when no other default setting is found.

// $CFG->defaultblocks = 'participants,activity_modules,search_forums,course_list:news_items,calendar_upcoming,recent_activity';

Regards

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Craig, hopefully you get notices for old discussion threads! How would the CFG line be written if the client doesn't want any blocks to appear in the course? (other than the course admin block)

Can we put a "none" or "null" in there?

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Hi Erin

I am not sure what the correct syntax for no blocks is - if null or none doesn't work then try

$CFG->defaultblocks = '';

regards

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That worked!

We did have to specify a course type:

$CFG->defaultblocks_topics = '';

$CFG->defaultblocks_weeks = '';

Thank you so much!

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We generally don't use the "Create New Course", we just have a set of course backups (with the right blocks, standard text for sections, etc.) which we restore when we need to create a new course. Really useful for things like creating a "standard" face to face course where we wanted to remove all of the standard notifications so we've only got our customized ones.

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