Moodle

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.6
• Fix Version/s: 2.0
• Component/s: Resource
• Labels:

  None
• Environment:

  All

Replace 'Link to a file or web site' with

Link to a file

Link to a web page

The latter I suggest to refer to web page not web site since that is what the links are. Even using a generic site address, we really link to their default page.

I found that a number of our instructors are somehow confused by the dual function of the 'Link to a file or web site' resource. I understand that under the hood they nicely share the same code, but I submit to present them to users as two different resources.

They are in fact different. One refers a file that had to be uploaded to local server, so it is functionally similar to 'display directory'. Another refers to a web page somewhere in the world.

This split would allow for improved verification of input (cf MDL-3558) and adding control of the icons (bug 3338).

The file resource could display file size and last update date in parallel to what display a directory resource does. This is often important to students (since files are often updated in the course of semester) but instructors notoriously forget to add it manually.

• Assignee:

  Petr Škoda (skodak)

  Reporter:

  Robert Brenstein

  Tester:

  Nobody

  Participants:

  Petr Škoda (skodak), Robert Brenstein

• Created:

  19/Jun/05 11:05 PM

  Updated:

  17/Dec/10 1:21 PM

  Resolved:

  10/Oct/10 3:05 AM