Moodle

Resource Summaries should optionally display on course page

Details

  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 1.8.2
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Course, Resource
  • Labels:
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  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_18_STABLE

Description

There should be an option allowing teachers to choose to display the summary for a resource on the central course page. (The option should ideally be configured per resource.) The data is there; teachers shouldn't have to cut, navigate, insert a label, and paste.

Issue Links

This issue will be resolved by:
MDL-16820 [API proposal] modules printing to the course page Minor Open

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Takashi SASAKI added a comment -

FYI related discussion
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=51457

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Takashi SASAKI added a comment - FYI related discussion http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=51457
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Kyle Schiefelbein added a comment -

This would be especially helpful if the instructor has selected "Force Download" for the resource (which I suggest to all my instructors - makes the file appear faster) since the summary material is never shown. With more instructors posting journal articles and chapters online for students to read, it is important for the students to know the original source of the document.

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Kyle Schiefelbein added a comment - This would be especially helpful if the instructor has selected "Force Download" for the resource (which I suggest to all my instructors - makes the file appear faster) since the summary material is never shown. With more instructors posting journal articles and chapters online for students to read, it is important for the students to know the original source of the document.
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Philip Anderson added a comment -

We're in the process of migrating from Blackboard to Moodle, and I'm very surprised to see that this feature (displaying the summary next to the content itself in course-view) does not exist! It's standard in Blackboard...

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Philip Anderson added a comment - We're in the process of migrating from Blackboard to Moodle, and I'm very surprised to see that this feature (displaying the summary next to the content itself in course-view) does not exist! It's standard in Blackboard...
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Ian McNaught added a comment -

I'd go as far as to describe this as a bug, especially when using the Link resource because the summary generally doesn't get displayed at all, it is content just lost in the ether. Of course you can work round it using labels, but it shouldn't be necessary - I can't fathom what purpose the Summary field could have if it's not to go on the course page, if you don't want it displayed there then put the content in the main content area for the resource!

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Ian McNaught added a comment - I'd go as far as to describe this as a bug, especially when using the Link resource because the summary generally doesn't get displayed at all, it is content just lost in the ether. Of course you can work round it using labels, but it shouldn't be necessary - I can't fathom what purpose the Summary field could have if it's not to go on the course page, if you don't want it displayed there then put the content in the main content area for the resource!

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