Again, following a usability study of our moodle install Study Direct at the University of Sussex the team began to make some improvements to the ‘Your sites’ page which lists the course sites users have access to.<\/p>\n
At Sussex a site for each course is created each year, with Students and Tutors for the site pulled in from our central database. Students and Tutors can go back and look at previous years sites and find this very useful. It can however prove confusing in moodle where a user could have many sites with exactly the same name – from different years. Tutors, for example, can teach the same course each year and have sites for every year they have been teaching the course. To help us organise this we keep meta-data about the course year, study level and term (Spring, Autum etc..) in the moodle database and can use it to organise how we show sites to users.<\/p>\n
The new ‘Your sites’ page takes full advantage of this – organising sites into :<\/p>\n
Current sites – sites from the current academic year & sites which do not have any academic year but run continuously<\/em><\/p>\n and individual academic years – in the screen shot below 08-09, 07-08 and 05-06<\/em><\/p>\n \n We presented these initial ideas at a user group meeting for june 2010 – shown in the video below.<\/p>\n