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Manage activities
From Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Manage activities, the administrator can view a list of activities and manage their settings.
Number of activities
The activities column lists how many activities for each module there are on your LMS site. If you click on a number, the list of courses containing that activity will be displayed.
Hiding a module
The hide/show column allows selected modules to be hidden i.e. they do not appear in any course “Add an activity” dropdown menu and cannot be used in any course. To hide a module, click the eye icon so that it changes to a closed eye.
The Feedback module (which will eventually be replaced by a newer survey module) is hidden by default.
Module deletion
Apart from the Forum activity, any module can be deleted using the link in the delete column. There is no reason for standard modules to be deleted, however contributed modules may need to be deleted before upgrading.
Note: To delete a module completely, in addition to deleting it on the manage activities page, you also need to remove/delete the actual module folder from the lms/mod folder, otherwise LMS will reinstall it next time you access the site administration.
Settings
Many of the modules have additional settings, mostly enabling default values to be set, which can be accessed via the links in the settings column.
Common activity settings
From Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Common activity settings, the administrator can decide whether or not to force instructors to add a description to the activity or resource they are creating. The setting applies to all standard activities and resources on the site.
Reducing the number of activities listed in the activity chooser
By default, managers and instructors can add any activity module enabled on the site to a course. However, the list of activities in the activity chooser (or ‘Add an activity’ dropdown menu) may be reduced in number by preventing the capability to add instances of particular activity modules.
Managing activities in several languages
The restriction by language availability condition additional plugin makes it easy to show an English resource only to English users and an activity in French only to French speaking users.