Martin Dougiamas

I think as long as we keep the idea of (for the current user) "private pages for me" and "public pages for others to see" totally separate then it should be easy to work out the design.

Currently the user profile contains a bit of both, plus a third aspect "logs and records for this user". This could be a third section on the tabs, and all the course-specific stuff can be under that.

Subpages wouldn't be blocks would they? They could just be records in a new my_pages table.

I think we definitely should aim to use blocks here rather than a new plugin type. If blocks are insufficient to meet any use cases please let's work that out now, because blocks are being redeveloped as we speak.

As for this example, having multiple My Moodle pages per user is totally supportable by the new blocks system as far as I can see. I would proceed on that basis and Tim will be able to help further when he gets back in a few weeks.

I assume you are just thinking parallel tabs, rather than a hierarchical structure. Best practice in this area seems to be:

iGoogle http://www.google.com/ig and
NetVibes http://www.netvibes.com and even
Mahara http://mahara.org

An interesting presentation by Helen Carter from the University of Canberra at Educause last week showed that no matter how hard they tried to re-brand their own site locally they found that everyone continues to call their installation Moodle.

I don't think there's much we can do from here ...

BTW, I strongly vote against MOODLE ... I've always called just called it "Moodle" (the acronym is really a sort of open secret )

I made a page for this here: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Standard_Moodle_tags