Responsive design in moodle A cross platform vle? With the increasing predominance of smart phones and tablets it is highly likely that any institution running some form of analytics will have seen the rise in their moodle site being accessed by Blackberry, IPhone & IPad and the ever increasing march of Android. It’s predicted that by 2013 […]
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31.10.2011
moodle dashboard
The information architecture of moodle can be rather confusing for both students & tutors. One of the reasons for this, suggested by our users, is that in comparison to most other web based content management systems moodle has no clear separation between the course editing settings and the front end. Having this separation of a front end user interface & an […]
Read this post →10.8.2011
Recent activity in Moodle
We want our Moodle to be a dynamic online space, but there is a barrier to this. Currently to spot if any changes have occured to their moodle sites users have to rely on getting email updates or playing spot the difference for each site they have in moodle – often not a simple task. […]
Read this post →12.7.2011
Moodle breadcrumb
When navigating a web site I like to know where I am so I do not feel disorientated or lost. Most web sites have a breadcrumb bar to help me with this. The metaphor is that the user has left a trail of breadcrumbs whilst traversing the site so he or she can retrace their […]
Read this post →11.5.2011
Moodle pages format
Here is a short video of a new format (for moodle2 and 1.9) we are currently calling pages. [vimeo width=”700″ height=”490″]http://vimeo.com/23476517[/vimeo] We hope the pages format is similar to design patterns used in other websites, CMS and web based apps and as such familiar and intuitive for users. A by-product the pages format is that there […]
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Creating groups automatically in Moodle
At their MoodleMoot UK 2011 presentation, Paolo and Stuart outlined some of changes that have been made to Study Direct (Moodle at Sussex) to improve the user experience for both staff and students. Improving the ‘groups’ feature in Moodle was one such development and the changes made went live at the start of the Summer […]
Read this post →2.3.2011
Moodle Developments – Giving Moodle courses visual identities
Good web experiences usually implies one which is intuitive and visually appealing. This implies using visual identifiers in conjunction with texts, reducing the need to read in order to make meaning and navigate the site. Off-the-shelf Moodle has no way of giving course sites a visual identity. This means that list of sites such as […]
Read this post →22.2.2011
Moodle Developments – Quick editor toolbar
In Moodle some of the things users need to quickly do can be buried in the middle of a form, without an obvious label. In order to help out our staff and tutors we added a quick editor toobar which has the common settings that Moodle editors often need to change in their sites. The toolbar is […]
Read this post →4.2.2011
Moodle guest access
If you login as a guest on the Sussex Moodle, Study Direct, you’ll see something very different from a standard Moodle install. Guest users are presented with sites – by academic year – to which the creators have allowed guest access. When Moodle became our institutional VLE a minority of staff had issues with users having […]
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Teaching groups imported into Moodle
At Sussex our course modules may have a number of teaching activities, including : seminars tutorials workshops laboratory classes Each of these might split a module cohort into groups. We call these teaching groups. Like our course modules at Sussex, Moodle has a notion of groups and teaching groups which they call ‘groupings’. Using these groupings […]
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