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Category Titles in Courses Block

Details

  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Trivial Trivial
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 1.6
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Course, Usability
  • Labels:
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  • Environment:
    All
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_16_STABLE

Description

It would be nice and a lot more usable if the course list was complimented with category titles.

See mock up here:

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=17118&parent=86938

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Anthony Borrow added a comment -

Laia - I was thinking today actually as I was going through the course listing that it would be helpful to adjust the number of course per page. Of course this is totally possible; however, it is a setting listed under front page settings which does not seem to me to be the most intuitive place for it. I would expect it to be somewhere under courses but the argument could be made that you really only browse courses from the front page. Everywhere else you are in a particular course. In any case, this might be a neat area to explore using AJAX. For me the larger question is how does Moodle handle long lists. There should be an option for # of entries per page, ways of sorting and filtering, etc. A comparison of the various long lists (courses, students, participants, questions, etc.) would be good to have. Do each of them function is a similar way? If not, what are the difference and are they justified? Peace - Anthony

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Anthony Borrow added a comment - Laia - I was thinking today actually as I was going through the course listing that it would be helpful to adjust the number of course per page. Of course this is totally possible; however, it is a setting listed under front page settings which does not seem to me to be the most intuitive place for it. I would expect it to be somewhere under courses but the argument could be made that you really only browse courses from the front page. Everywhere else you are in a particular course. In any case, this might be a neat area to explore using AJAX. For me the larger question is how does Moodle handle long lists. There should be an option for # of entries per page, ways of sorting and filtering, etc. A comparison of the various long lists (courses, students, participants, questions, etc.) would be good to have. Do each of them function is a similar way? If not, what are the difference and are they justified? Peace - Anthony
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Anthony Borrow added a comment -

p.s. - What other approaches might be taken (for example, http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=19529)

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Anthony Borrow added a comment - p.s. - What other approaches might be taken (for example, http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=19529)
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Laia Subirats added a comment -

Here http://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Usability_issues/CategoryTitles I look the # of entries per page, indexing, sorting and filtering of every long list. After that, I concluded that some functionalities could be added to increase usability. Another task would be changing "front page" of the admin menu by "home page" or "site home page".

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Laia Subirats added a comment - Here http://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Usability_issues/CategoryTitles I look the # of entries per page, indexing, sorting and filtering of every long list. After that, I concluded that some functionalities could be added to increase usability. Another task would be changing "front page" of the admin menu by "home page" or "site home page".
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Laia Subirats added a comment -

My opinion is that AJAX could not save much time in the admin menu as there are not many submenus (only the users and module categories have submenus). However, it could be useful in the front page when there are many courses and only the metacourses are wanted to be shown. This could be added as an option (but not the default one)

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Laia Subirats added a comment - My opinion is that AJAX could not save much time in the admin menu as there are not many submenus (only the users and module categories have submenus). However, it could be useful in the front page when there are many courses and only the metacourses are wanted to be shown. This could be added as an option (but not the default one)

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