The recent activity block
When the Recent activity block is added to the home page of a course, it lists all the student and teacher activity in that course since the user's last login. The link for a full report of recent activity displays a page that enables you to run reports on course activity.
When added to the site's front page, it lists all the student and teacher activity on the front page, but not in the individual courses, since the user's last login. If someone is logged in as a guest user, this block displays any activity since the last time that guest logged in. If guest users are constantly coming to your site, this block may be of limited use to them. One strategy is to omit this block from the site's front page so that anonymous ...
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