Improving the usability of a Book

Improving the usability of a Book

Conor Bradley -
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Can anyone help me?

I'm trying to improve students experience with a course I'm running that uses the Book module to display a course handbook. At the moment the next/previous arrows are pretty small and not all that obvious. In addition, students often ignore the contents list block on the left as they just assume its the standard navigation block. These problems lead to them not realising that there's more than one page of content, or how to move through the content. Are there any obvious ways of helping the situation? I thought of:

- a "you are on page 1 of 14" indicator

- changing the next/previous icons to larger arrows with "next/previous" written on them

Any advice or suggestions much appreciated.

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回复Conor Bradley

Re: Improving the usability of a Book

AL Rachels -
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The buttons appear to be in ...yourmoodle/mod/book/pix in png format. They are also there in svg making it easy to change them and then create new bigger png's.

AL

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回复Conor Bradley

Re: Improving the usability of a Book

Ryan Archer -

I asked a similar question a while back about modifying the arrows within the book module here at https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=266849 - I received a great answer and it helped me very much!

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回复Ryan Archer

Re: Improving the usability of a Book

Ryan Archer -

Wow Al, you so quick!!!

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回复Ryan Archer

Re: Improving the usability of a Book

AL Rachels -
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Nah, just happened to turn on my Surface while eating breakfast and remembered my answer to you a few days ago, so I didn't need to look anything up or experiment.

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回复AL Rachels

Re: Improving the usability of a Book

Derek Chirnside -

warning.  Completely off task.  Random association due to AL's blatant product placement in post.  M$ surface/onenote parody and ad.  Go elsewhere now if you should be working.


-Derek

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回复Derek Chirnside

Re: Improving the usability of a Book

Conor Bradley -

Thanks for all the help - and the off topic but entertaining video!

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回复Conor Bradley

Re: Improving the usability of a Book

AL Rachels -
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@ Derek...the off topic sometimes just makes my day, especially this year when I am trying to keep some 11 (yes eleven) year old Windows XP computers working in my lab. My students aren't quite up to making something that good, but they do try.

@ Conor, you didn't mention student age or subject, but one of my for extra credit project ideas this year is for students to come up with their version of buttons for places in Moodle like those navigation buttons in the Book. I'm also going to have them make their own version of the pictures for the hangman game in the Game module. They love making stuff like that.

AL

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The Diehards

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> especially this year when I am trying to keep some 11 (yes eleven) year old Windows XP computers working in my lab

moodle.org has more than its portion of diehards:
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=269271#p1161966
:-?
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回复Visvanath Ratnaweera

Re: The Diehards

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Unfortunately for me, I am a diehard by necessity and not by choice. 伤心 Parents want their kids to be taught using the latest and greatest equipment, but please don't ask them to increase taxes or fees to pay for new equipment to replace that which was worn out or broken, sometimes deliberately 愤怒, by previous students.


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