I recently read an article on the relative advantages of Open Source vs. commercial VLEs, where the (admittedly biased) writer suggested that poor documentation was a problem of open source systems. As a Moodle user, this rang true with me. I had been finding it difficult to find up-to-date documentation on specific functions in Moodle and had initially thought that it was my lack of thoroughness in searching, however on reading this, I searched further and still had difficulty finding documentation. I think that the success of Moodle may even be compounding the problem as functionality improves quite rapidly. For me this raises a number of questions that some of you may have answers to:
Do you believe that the documentation of Moodle is largely satisfactory/complete (and just a little hard to find)?
Should we have a more organised collaborative approach to developing Moodle documentation? There are many non-programmers (or unwilling programmers like myself) who would be willing to contribute to such an effort.
What techniques should we use for such a collaborative process? (I'm intrigued by the ideas of wikis, but have not had time to look at these).
I could summarise my position by the simple question: Is there something I'm missing?
Looking forward to a response.
Brian.
In reply to Brian Mulligan
Re: Moodle documentation: Procedure for updating documentation
by Brian Mulligan -
This is a very quiet discussion forum. After suggesting that a wiki might be a good way of organising documentation, I find that I have to answer my own question.
Yes, there are some things I am missing:
(1) there is the start of a wikipedia for documentation in this course, and
(2) looking up wikipedia for Moodle, I find that there is a wikipedia for Moodle documentation. Where at http://docs.moodle.org/ - I look forward to using it and possibly even contributing.
Yes, there are some things I am missing:
(1) there is the start of a wikipedia for documentation in this course, and
(2) looking up wikipedia for Moodle, I find that there is a wikipedia for Moodle documentation. Where at http://docs.moodle.org/ - I look forward to using it and possibly even contributing.