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Tutors create the material types through Moodle modules\/mods, the names of which reflect what they do – so the “folder” mod creates a resource which displays a file directory and the “forum” mod creates an online space where students can engage in discussions.<\/p>\n
However, we found that two of the “resource” mods had ambiguous names:-<\/p>\n
Moodle has separate mods for creating non-interactive content to be displayed\u00a0directly on the course page<\/em> and non-interactive content\u00a0to be displayed\u00a0on a new page<\/em>. They call the former the “Label” mod and the latter the “Page” mod.<\/p>\n These mod names do not accurately convey what they do (particularly after we had customised the display of a Moodle “Page”). Accordingly some tutors weren’t using them when they could have been.<\/p>\n Informal chats and interviews revealed more descriptive titles for the mods.<\/p>\n The research showed that the “Label” is usually used to provide learning content in the form of text or graphics, and so is not really a label<\/em> for anything. We found “Displayed content” was more of a useful name and that tutors would find an image useful to illustrate what it did.<\/p>\n In our Moodle the “Page” is nested within the Moodle course and the content is revealed on the same page<\/em> when the title is clicked (a blog post about this is coming). It is therefore is not really a page at all. We found “Click-to-reveal content” was more of a descriptive name\u00a0and, as before, that an image would be useful to illustrate what it did.<\/p>\n And when a tutor adds a resource in our Moodle they get the following dialog box.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/elearningteam\/files\/2013\/10\/moodle_modules.png\" "\\"display\\"")
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