Usability: Usability of toolbar and buttons of TinyMCE in moodle 2.0 (was One solution for Keeping user data safe)

Re: Usability: Usability of toolbar and buttons of TinyMCE in moodle 2.0 (was One solution for Keeping user data safe)

by Mauno Korpelainen -
Number of replies: 1

Maybe the only way to find out what people really want and what they need is to ask - I will create a quick anonymous online button survey and try to get enough different moodlers from different countries and different user groups to fill that survey. 

Links to that "open survey" should be available within some days (next week?) and results should be visible next week as well. At least a short survey like this might help in creating those additional toolbars, selectors or editor profiles - without need to arrange large user action follow-up studies.

Yet a survey like this may not have any impact on those decisions that Petr and others finally do but we may get some interesting info about user experiences anyway.

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Re: Usability: Usability of toolbar and buttons of TinyMCE in moodle 2.0 (was One solution for Keeping user data safe)

by Mauno Korpelainen -

After some non-functional tests with switcher code and discussions with a couple of teachers I decided to leave surveys for some other time and suggest that we take all available (needed) buttons and menus to default configuration but select only the most common and well-known buttons to 2 first toolbars (see number 4 in attached image). Other buttons and menus can be taken to FULL SCREEN init code which does exactly the same thing as any other magical buttons - switches on the advanced buttons that can be set to even 4 rows in the future but should fit well to 3 rows in current tinymce.

Because screen is wider in full screen mode we can add new buttons also to 1st and 2nd row but we have lots of free space in 3rd and 4th row as well (see number 5 in attached image)

First toolbar is current HTMLArea, second toolbar TinyMCE from Moxiecode (Full example) and third toolbar is from current moodle 2.0.

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