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
Martin Dougiamas
Posts made by Martin Dougiamas
Moodle in English -> Lounge -> Does your University use Moodle? -> Re: Does your University use Moodle?
by Martin Dougiamas -
Thanks for your initiative with this survey - I'm looking forward to seeing the results!
Moodle in English -> General developer forum -> Moodle 2.0 install -> Re: Moodle 2.0 install
by Martin Dougiamas -
Sorry, "no" to both questions. Files are a very major change with no undo and restore is currently not working in 2.0 dev.
You'll need to go back to an earlier state and make sure you set up the 2.0 site as a separate site next time!
You'll need to go back to an earlier state and make sure you set up the 2.0 site as a separate site next time!
Moodle in English -> Blocks -> Does it have to be so bloody complicated? (preferred_width) -> Re: Does it have to be so bloody complicated? (preferred_width)
by Martin Dougiamas -
I think blocks should be still be allowed to specify a preferred width in pixels if they want to.
Moodle should take all those and boil it down to one number which it makes available to the theme.
The theme can then do what it wants with that info (including ignoring it).
IMO the existing div-based course formats should use that number - it's a bug that they don't.
Moodle should take all those and boil it down to one number which it makes available to the theme.
The theme can then do what it wants with that info (including ignoring it).
IMO the existing div-based course formats should use that number - it's a bug that they don't.
Moodle in English -> General developer forum -> Thoughts about the editing interface and AJAX -> Re: Thoughts the editing interface and AJAX
by Martin Dougiamas -
Yep, that's my personal favorite method (showing the editing icons on mouseover). It does work great on facebook (though as Ian pointed out above there is a small cognitive gap for new users before they realise you have to mouse over it to get the edit icons).
Perhaps a small edit icon hint there is enough to overcome that too, as per http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=122300#p536641
Looks like everyone agrees! Anyone want to try some code? A lot of this can be done in CSS, but the title editing will require changes to the course format.
Perhaps a small edit icon hint there is enough to overcome that too, as per http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=122300#p536641
Looks like everyone agrees! Anyone want to try some code? A lot of this can be done in CSS, but the title editing will require changes to the course format.