Martin Dougiamas

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

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

Firstly: Mike, it's so cool you can work on this and I'm very grateful that you are!

I am feeling very confident that My Moodle and the user profile page should be redeveloped in tandem for Moodle 2.0 as two sides of the same coin, probably as tabs of the "same" system (from a user interface point of view).

My Moodle = your personal "portal" page where you arrange your own Moodle front end (so you have a clear overview of what is happening and what needs doing for all your courses) as well as feeds and other info (eg a block to show your courses on an integrated Blackboard server, for example!) It's also the place where you change your preferences and settings.

User Profile = your page for other people, may contain blocks with related information you want other people to see (eg recent twitter posts, etc). You should have some control here over what you want to allow people to see. Some of the existing tabs we have now in Moodle 1.x could become blocks on this page, and some of them could be moved to the My Moodle page.

This model is quite common on the internet these days, for example:

Facebook = Home + Profile
Twitter = Home + Profile
Flickr = Home + You

Thanks for your initiative with this survey - I'm looking forward to seeing the results!