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Helen Foster added a comment - 14/Feb/09 12:27 AM
Wen, please could you clarify - are you suggesting a jump to menu in addition to the show one section / show all sections links and the jump to menu on each activity page?
Helen Foster made changes - 14/Feb/09 12:27 AM
Hi Helen, yes I'm suggesting a "jump to" menu in addition to the show one section / show all sections link and the "jump to" menu on the bottom of the course page. I'm not aware of any other "jump to" menu on "each" activity page.
The problem with the current "jump to" (section) pull-down menu is that, it is only available when you "show only one topic/week". When you choose to "show all" sections, it won't be displayed. I'm suggesting a optional "jump to" pull-down menu for "each section" when you have the "Show all week/topic" enabled. This setting can be controlled in the course setting page. This would be especially helpful if your course has a lot of materials for "each" section. I know that both student and teacher could just "show a week" (or topic) and on the bottom of the page it will show you the "Jump to..." pull-down menu, however, there are use cases that you want to have "show all week" enabled, while still be able to quickly jumping from one week (topic) to the other. One possible solution is to add the "Section Links" block. However, this block can only stay in one place (e.g., at the upper left corner), and it is not a "floating" block when you are scrolling the page. So when you have "show all week" (or topic) enabled (which then you lose the "Jump to..." pull down menu), then your navigation between weeks become difficult - usually involve a lot of mouse scrolling. You could either scroll all the way to the top of the page, then use the "Section Links" block, or you will have to do a lot of scrolling to another section (this is particularly a big problem when you have a lot of materials for each section). I have attached a backup file here to demonstrate the problem. Hope this helps.. Now that I think of it, I think it is probably more of a new feature, rather than "improvement". So I will change this accordingly. Wen course file that for each weee (topic), there are lot of stuff taking up the real estate for each week/topic.
Wen Hao Chuang made changes - 14/Feb/09 03:20 AM
Wen Hao Chuang made changes - 14/Feb/09 03:21 AM
On the usability side, this ticket is also related to MDL-18349. Just a quick FYI
Wen - This is somewhat related to MDL-13917 which addresses the issue of how to more easily collapse and expand sections. I think this would be a good patch but I'm not sure it should be in core. It sounds like what would be most beneficial for you would be to have the section links function as section jump to menu at the bottom of each section; however, this will scroll with you. The jump to menu shows all the activities and resources in a course and allows you to move to them. In part, I would encourage the teachers to design their course so that a particular section is not overwhelmingly large/long. So if you take the code from jump to and combine it with section links and put it at the bottom of the section do you think that might approximate what you are aiming for? Peace - Anthony
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Adding a optional "Jump to.." pull-down menu for each section (topic or weekly format) - especially for large classes
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