Future major features

First off thanks for taking this initiative,

I do have a few questions though.

1. The student grades page, will that be linked to the course grade report for each course or will it introduce a new report with all grades in all courses?  Also how will that behave if grades are hidden from students in a specific course (like when Show gradebook to student is set to false)

2, Will it be possible for plugins to be able to inject things into the user preferences page?  There are several components (I'm thinking things like some of the quiz reports and grade reports) that could benefit from having the preferences configured from a uniform place. 

3. Where would things like the question bank or filters fall in this new navigation scheme? (Since they can be used in multiple contexts such as a course or an activity)

The rest looks good.

-Steve

I would like to share a generic theme renderer function we are using over a year now, which was requested by Teachers and Administration stuff, that has some "None specific relation" (as the Tracker used to say) to your work. And I would like to know if you are interested in the code and/or your general feedback too.

It is a MouseOver custom quick action menu which is available system wide on each user's image, with links to hard to get administration functions. It is available to Teachers and Administrators exclusively. Here is a screen capture:

Frédéric

Has anything moved on in this area?

-Derek

Hi Fred,

I have just been directed from MDL-50661 via the Navigation Overhaul page so I thought my views about that issue and also the ones described in the specification page for your proposed changes.

Whilst I welcome a revision of the Navigation within Moodle, there are a few things that I am not happy with, the main one being the changes made to the "page-header". 

These changes will break the themes that are in place in most people's Moodle Sites, unless they are upgraded, or use the layouts from clean theme by default of their parent theme.

That said, I am sure the approach you took could have been better designed.

for one thing, why remove the page-header just to add a few new elements?

Couldn't these new elements, such as the context header and the page heading been written as a set of single elements and then added to the page-header in the layout, thus giving themes the option to move them to another location in the theme's scheme of things?

Also, I think that the breadcrumb would be better being placed just inside the page-content.

Just a few thoughts, on a very windy day in the UK...

Mary

I recently came across the Enlight theme by LMSthemes.com. It has a custom category menu sidebar that offers a dynamic listing of courses by category.

See http://www.lmsthemes.com/enlight-demo/course/index.php?categoryid=4 for an example.

I find this method of navigation to be very intuitive and user friendly. It also allows for a large number of courses to be displayed in a compact, user friendly way, especially on mobile devices.

How difficult would it be to incorporate this feature into the Moodle core.