Jon,
Thinking about a way to make the interfaces of different Moodle moduls more alike, I was wondering... Is this an idea for bringing in calendar events more easy:
The homepage of a course with the sections overview is the place where teachers and students have/keep the overview of that course.
Here is where teachers think about tuning the course and students think about ToDo choices...
- show the teacher/student in event edit view a sections overview of that course
- show this view with a checkbox behind each activity in the sections
- put the date of an activity (that has a date) in that calendar when it is checked
- ask the user for a date (and a date comment) for activities (like resources) that do not have dates, when they checkmark these:
for teacher or student, even a resource could get a date reason, for example: "I should read this before date...