This is truly a testament to the open source community, the spirit of Moodle, and the great folks here in the forums. Over the past couple of days, Richard Oelmann and myself have been brainstorming and perfecting some pretty exciting new features for themes and Moodle. Our first project was the Radial Course Completion and Total Grade displays which generates a very visual representation for the students.
This latest endeavor revolves around matching profile tags (interests) with course tags and displaying the results in a beautiful slider. Introducing Personalized Recommended Courses. There are many, MANY possibilities that can come from this. Imagine matching competencies or other elements to generate personalized views for learners. All kinds of different things can be sorted and personalized for the learner.
Not quite yet ready for release, but an overview of the work so far in the Pioneer theme and will also be a part of Flexibase.
Richard is working to make it modular so that other themers can pull out the code from Flexibase and implement it into other themes as well! The original base code for the featured courses was taken from eGuru and enhanced in the Pioneer theme by me with some different javascript and styling. Richard added the razzle-dazzle to personalize the displays. All around great collaboration to pull off a useful feature for the community!
