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The global settings for Dash allow site administrators to control the behavior, appearance, and data sources for all blocks across the Moodle site. These settings are divided between general dashboard management, widget–specific defaults, and addon configurations.
Note: The available settings depends on your installed Dash tier and global addons configuration.
Available settings
The configurations are located in two main areas of the Moodle site administration.
Dash blocks configuration
This section covers the core settings for the Dash block itself:
Dash – Configure general block behavior, theme compatibility, and site–wide display defaults.
Dash local plugin settings
These settings are categorized to help you manage dashboards, set defaults for widgets and data sources, and access the developer addon.
General management
General settings – Define site–wide behaviors, such as course image handling and navigation redirects.
Manage dashboards – Create, edit, and organize multiple custom pages across your site.
Manage addons – Enable or disable specific Dash data sources, widgets, and functional components.
Widget and data source configurations
These settings define the default behavior and resource availability for individual components:
Data source: Calendar events – Configure the default fallback image for calendar–related data displays.
Widget: Activity Completion – Configure default tracking and display options for activity completion.
Widget: Course enrolments – Set how enrollment data is displayed and filtered.
Widget: Learning path – Manage SVG resources, path layouts, and status color defaults.
Widget: My profile – Define the default fields and appearance for the user profile widget.
Manage competencies appearance – Customize the colors and images used for competencies in the Competency progress widget.
Developer tools
Addon: Developer – Access advanced tools for custom data source and bespoke layout creation.