Future major features

Hi Helen, that's a really nice feature! I think my main feedback would be that it's not very clear how you see what settings are in each preset. I realise now that it's shown when you click apply but I wouldn't have clicked that if it wasn't a demo server Would it be worth changing it to "review settings and apply" or something like that?

Helen,

This is very good news, since this has been a plugin I have installed for years on new sites I review and build.

Suggestions for the Starter Pack settings:

1) Plugins / Enrolments / Manage enrol plugins > "Disable Guest access"

This is vitally important: it is the first thing I do to new sites, always. Starter users not only don't understand how Guest works, but believe it to be entirely innocuous and are unaware of the potential danger. They are often horrified when they find out how it really works and how easy it would be for a course Teacher out of ignorance to enable this in their courses. Likewise:

2) Plugins / Enrolments / Manage enrol plugins / Guest access > Disable "Add instance to new courses"

Same thing. Even if disabled, adding it to new courses by default is potentially dangerous. This should be an informed decision made by admin with some understanding, so I don't think it belongs in the Starter pack. Related:

3) Plugins / Authentication / Manage authentication > Guest login button = Hide.

This is the best default rather than the current default of Show. Again, enabling Guest access should be an informed, carefully considered decision and in a Starter pack all these settings should be disabled. (And personally I think they should all be off by default in core too.)


4) Plugins / Activity modules / Manage activities > Disable ...Lesson.

I would certainly not agree that Lesson should be excluded from the Starter pack. All the others yes but Lesson is a vital activity that users should know about right away and is unique to Moodle unlike the usual generic things all LMS/VLEs have like forum, quiz, etc. It gives a good pedagogical option right away that can help avoid the "bag of files" pedagogy in most courses.


5) Plugins / Availability restrictions / Manage restrictions > Hide Grouping, User profile.

I would certainly enable user profile, it is a very useful setting, especially in companies where user profile fields for departments, etc, are important and filled in. Anyone getting into using access restrictions will want to know from the start that this is a possible to use even if they don't use it right away. I agree on hiding Grouping which is clearly an advanced topic however.

6) Plugins / Filters / Manage filters >

I would add Disable "Display emoticons as images" which is on by default. Everyone over the age of 12 finds this annoying. It is only useful on sites for younger kids.


7) Advanced features

Is there a reason why "Allow stealth activities" still defaults to off in Advanced features? It's been around now since Moodle 3.3. I always turn it on. Otherwise, I think this is a good list of settings for real Starters. I would personally always leave Badges and Tags enabled, but I see why there is a case for turning those off in a Starter pack.

Reviewing the XML file from the test site and it looks the same as the list on the doc page.


Thanks

Randy

Hello,

It's also a pleasure for us to be able to work and benefit from your experience on Moodle

This is a very cool feature. The starter setting will no doubt make navigating Moodle easier for beginners, but one thing seems to miss the mark: everyone is on their own timeline. For example, the faculty at my university, far from being homogeneous, has roughly 10 profs who would benefit from the Starter preset, another 40 or so who are fairly proficient at doing what they want to do, and another 20 who would definitely qualify for the full preset. Where should I set my Moodle?

Written in the style of the page: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Site_admin_presets

As an admin:

This is very nice feature with Moodle 4+

Can you help me to understand,? Can we reuse or share all define roles capability and themes too ?
As per my understanding we can reuse all activity and resourse and site level configuration we can do it.

please suggest if we can customized it to reuse roles and there capability too.