Martin Dougiamas

Please keep the discussion here - the docs aren't much good for discussions.

I think this post predates you, Mark!  But no matter, I would prefer no-one had a need to invent it.

Hi all,

I want to firstly apologise for this being so late.  We've had internal discussion about new paged formats here for a year or more but publishing a spec for this has been delayed by all kinds of other things coming up. I feel bad about any perceived rush there is now.

Nevertheless, here is a proposal for some core changes to course formats that (in part) address the "scroll of death" directly while sweetening up the whole GUI and and also opening up things for 3rd party course formats.   It's based on loads of feedback and patches we've got over the years.

          http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Paged_course_formats

I don't think it's going to be controversial but we have limited time to get any of this in 2.3 and I think there is some pressure from teachers to see something like this, so I'd like to refine this quickly and get started on it.

Note that many UI pieces have already been done and just need to be integrated, like those from Davo Smith and Andrew Nicols, which is excellent.

Your comments on the spec and any refinements that should be made are very welcome.

Originally this course was meant for non-support talk and stuff that is, well, not generally useful.  General discussion about Moodle was supposed to be in Using Moodle...

For those not already familiar with how we've done this in the past, see http://docs.moodle.org/dev/QA_testing