General help

Hello Minh-Tam,

Thanks for your work on this. I definitely think that this is very useful functionality, particularly for reasons of usability. Showing users lots of information (including courses that are not current for them) creates an unneccessary cognitive overhead. So your change follows the well researched principle of progressive disclosure. Of course there is also an important aesthetic benefit too as the content area within the interface will look less cluttered : ) 

Allowing users to change the order is good as they can put courses into a sequence that is meaningful for them which is another usability benefit.

One usability question: Does clicking the + symbol show the course details? I guess it does but it might help to have a text label 'show course details' also. A significant number of people won't know what the + is for (or have to think about it). As Steve Krug's classic book on usability says 'Don't Make Me Think'!. If you look at interfaces such as Google who also use progressive disclosure they also use a + symbol but they reinforce with a text label, so that the functionality is immediately apparent:

  

~thomas

This looks fantastic and solves TWO problems we have with our instance. I really hope you get the time to develop this. It feels like something that any large scale Moodle instance should have. Thanks for your hard work and we hope we can try it out for you!

Hi

a frist german translation:

$string['more_details'] = '';
$string['toggle_details'] = 'Detailansicht umschalten';
$string['hide_details'] = 'Details verstecken';
$string['show_details'] = 'Details zeigen';

$string['welcome'] = 'Wilkommen $a
';
$string['you_have_messages'] = 'Sie haben $a ungelesene ';
$string['you_have_no_messages'] = 'Sie haben keine ungelesene ';
$string['message'] = 'Nachricht';
$string['messages'] = 'Nachrichten';
$string['display_all'] = 'Alle Ihre Kurse werden gezeigt. Sie können diese Seite bearbeiten um das zu ändern.';
$string['display_only1'] = 'Zeige $a';
$string['display_only2'] = ' (von $a) Ihrer Kurse. ';
$string['display_only3'] = 'Diese Seite bearbeiten';
$string['display_only4'] = ' um die Einstellung zu ändern.';
$string['display_only_e'] = 'Anzahl der zu zeigenden Kurse: ';
$string['dropdown_all'] = 'Alle';
$string['button_save'] = 'Speichern';
$string['hide_below'] = 'Die $a Kurse unten werden nicht angezeigt werden sobald die Bearbeitung ausgeschaltet wird.';
$string['show_more'] = 'Anzeigen Ihrer weiteren $a Kurse. Bearbeiten Sie diese Seite um die Zahl der Kurse die standardmäßig angezeigt werden zu ändern.';
$string['more_courses1'] = '$a weitere Kurse werden nicht angezeigt. ';
$string['more_courses2'] = 'Diese Seite bearbeiten';
$string['more_courses3'] = ' um die Einstellung zu ändern.';
$string['more_courses_e1'] = 'Bearbeiten ausschalten';
$string['more_courses_e2'] = ' um die $a gedimmten Kurse auszublenden.';

$string['move_up'] = 'hoch';
$string['move_down'] = 'runter';
$string['move_top'] = 'ganz nach oben';
$string['move_bottom'] = 'ganz nach unten';

// errors:
$string['update_order_fail'] = 'Fehler bei der Aktualisierung der Kursreihenfolge!';
$string['needfield'] = 'Kursreihenfolge kann nicht gespeichert werden, da das Datenbankfeld hierfür fehlt.';

Hi

just for information:
I started work on combining your code with this http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=121758#p555677

Olaf