Moodle documentation: My Courses configuration

Moodle documentation: My Courses configuration

by John White -
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Hi All,

I can't find a proper description of how you configure the number of courses appearing in My Courses for logged on users. I note this panel:

Navigation

'Show course categories' allows me to switch on or off Course Categories (note: on its own this does nothing if the user is enrolled in 1 or more courses);

except that 'Show all courses' allows me to force showing a 'Courses' nav tab for everyone(which will then be categorised if the one above is ticked too);

and 'Course limit' which allows me to limit to the number of courses shown before the all courses link cuts in (but this applies only in the case where 'Show all courses' above is ticked.

 

So, in the case where I select:

No, Yes, 5, I get....

 Nav result

The problem here is that the user expands 'My courses' and sees themselves as enrolled on 5 courses which is completely misleading. Whilst setting this to a very large number makes a mockery of easy navigation! The missing item is 'View all my courses and categories'! If this option doesn't exist then what about 'My course categories' instead? And if that isn't possible, what about an option to switch off My courses altogether in sites where users are enrolled on a large number (possibly all) courses?

Or am I missing the point here somewhere?

Regards, John

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Re: Moodle documentation: My Courses configuration

by Mark Ward -

Hi John,

I'm in a similar boat, we enrol students onto a large number of college-wide courses such as the Student Union and the Student Forum but without categorisation the list will be pretty overwhelming.

Has anyone raised an issue related to this?

Mark

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Re: Moodle documentation: My Courses configuration

by Mark Ward -

Raised and issue for this here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-27405

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Re: Moodle documentation: My Courses configuration

by Derek Chirnside -

Mark: I've posted here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175905#p771357  no-one replied here - I was asking for where to configure courses limit - I assume it is hard coded somewhere.

I noticed this later:  http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175514

I've looked at your tracker item.  Catergorisation of courses in the tree is a different issue, and I guess for people like lecturers who may have a LOT of courses it is significant.

On the other hand it could be argued that we now have My Moodle and you can go there.

I had the sort of romantic view that Moodle 2.0 would "shake down" over some weeks/months.  But I am not optmistic about resoluton for some of these little frustrating features at the moment, especiall since we have now entered the one month feature freeze period for Moodle 2.1.

In my mind this is complicated by the news from Martin last week that they are putting in a new format to solve the problem of the scroll of death:  http://www.moodlenews.com/2011/folderview-a-new-anti-scroll-of-death-course-format-for-moodle-2/
Will this mean some rejigging of the naviation block as well? Martin has promised further news.

Also: I can't find a contact for anyone who has poked around inside the bowels of the nav block.  I don't even know how difficult some tweaks would be to improve useability.  Ocassionally a comment from a developer or  person who has looked at the code can help shape a plan.

-Derek

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