Comments on: Course editing

By: What is a course & the tools for having a great one (Part 2) « Moodle: The user's experience

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:28:09 +0000

[...] Moodle 2.0 was released yesterday (Yay! Super-Yay!) so a small discussion starter into what I think Moodle might look like in the future is appropriate. Actually, the discussion continues from a couple of months ago, when discussed quite a bit in MoodleNews and on Twitter. (See also previous course editing prototype.) [...]

By: Olli

Olli — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:03:03 +0000

Some interesting related discussion, featuring a request to have version control for the course front page:

http://bettween.com/moodledan/josephthibault
http://bettween.com/moodledan/ghenrick

By: MoodleDan

MoodleDan — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:49:31 +0000

@pilpi perfect post will digest!

By: pilpi

pilpi — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:44:02 +0000

@moodledan also, comments or ideas why http://www.pilpi.net/software/moodle/200... got a silent reaction are welcome :)

By: Olli

Olli — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:32:44 +0000

Yes, that delete button is a tricky part and I was wondering if anyone would comment on that. Now you did :).

Duplicate would be great but that is not directly supported by Moodle technically, I think. Duplicating would also be required by http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Quiz_Usability_portal/Attempted_quiz_enabling .

The thing is, there is little horizontal room to include that delete button there. My hunch was that it is not used that frequently, and as it is still a button it is recognizable even if it is in the settings form. Of course we could change the buttons to just use the icons that used to be there, to make more room. Since the non-command buttons are not confusing users there anymore, that could work.

By: Dominique-Alain JAN

Dominique-Alain JAN — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:17:34 +0000

Hi,
I looked at your an ‘alternative UI for editing the course page’ (MDL-19868). I agree with you that an AJAX presentation directly on the page is a much direct and better experience than having a new web page for setting up a resource.

I disagree with you in having a button to delete the resource in the set-up box. I suggest to have in line the actions for the resource (e.g. Move, Edit, Duplicate [yes we need to duplicate sometimes], Delete); and having the information about its content and its behaviour in the setup window.

By: Olli

Olli — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:09:13 +0000

Thank you Joe! That is indeed encouraging. I continued the discussion in the above forum thread so we will see what happens.

Olli