more moodling on a friday afternoon

Am playing around with the "Add a block" function and discovering some things.... A couple of other tricks for the new Moodle system that a few people in the dept have been trying to figure out...

1. sending emails within the class - add the "quickmail" block
2. sending instant messages to individuals within Moodle - add the "message" block
• Linda and I tried this, it seems to be like chatting in Facebook
3. embedding a widget for some functioning - add the "html" block (see previous post for how to get the widget set up in it)
4. help students keep track of what new things have been added onto the site - add the "recent activity" module