Martin Dougiamas

I just tried on a new installation under PHP5 and didn't get this.    Thanks for helping to test the development version (it's not beta yet) ... can I please ask you to file reports in the bug tracker?   Thanks.

> the trail should lead a student back the way they came

Can you show me one other software package that does this?

> Students in an online history class want to learn about history, not the structure of the LMS

Sorry, I must disagree. There needs to be some visible structure and regularity in the navigation interface otherwise it becomes an amorphous, ever-changing and inconsistent mess of pages. If the interface is regular and provide hints then students can pick it up quickly and find things regardless of some Ancient History professor's idea of web design.

1) Correct
2) It's the name of the activity module.  Changing it to use summaries is an interesting idea but difficult to implement cleanly (and fast).

It's in my plans for Moodle 2.0 ... some way off though.

You can play with it at http://test.moodle.com (or even download it from the moodle downloads page and play with it if you're keen). There's an incomplete list of features in the docs.

Now I really know I'm procrastinating - back to work, me! (tschh! tschh!)