We did some work earlier this year on looking at whats been called moodle’s edit clutter. The edit clutter can roughly be described as the screen ‘noise’ provided by all the amount of icons on a moodle site when your editing content. Alongside the edit clutter we also tried to help with a common question our tutors […]
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18.4.2012
Ireland and UK Moodlemoot 2012
Two weeks have passed since the Ireland and UK Moodlemoot and a number of participants have written some excellent blog posts that summarise their experiences of the event. I thought I’d use this post to focus on one particular presentation – by my colleague Stuart Lamour. It may seem a little strange to be commenting […]
Read this post →28.3.2012
Favourite Moodle courses
Our Moodle users can have a lot of course sites, but they usually only visit a few of them regularly. In order to make their lives easier we have introduced the concept of “favouriting”. When a user favourites a site it rises to the top of their site list. And when they unfavourite it it […]
Read this post →15.3.2012
Simplifying a Moodle form
I used to think that a good virtual learning environment was the one that was the most flexible. If the technology could enable it, it should enable it. But I could not understand why so few of Sussex tutors ever explored the options that were possible. In 2009 my new colleague Stuart Lamour introduced me […]
Read this post →7.3.2012
Google docs and Moodle integration
Collaborative working is a useful practice to enhance learning. Online document sharing such as that possible with Google docs provides a platform for collaborative working online. This is one of the reasons why we are excited by the possibility of a Google docs and Moodle integration. Another reason we are excited by the integration is that […]
Read this post →8.11.2011
Brighton UX 2011 notes
Brighton UX 2011 notes + linkdump Dunbar’s number (approx. 150) can be a good guide for cohort sizes in e-learning as well as soical media Boys like to ‘do stuff’ together to re-enforce social groups, girls like to ‘chat’ to re-enforce friendships – what implications does this have for the types of online activities you might […]
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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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