Joseph Rézeau

On the one hand the meaning of icons should be as "self-evident" as possible. On the other hand, the actual meaning of all those icons is revealed by mouse hovering, in the tooltip which is displayed in plain English (or French, Farsi, etc.). I suspect that the learning curve goes like this:

1. On a certain menu I see an icon which I can't quite guess what action it represents.
2. I move the mouse over it and the meaning is revealed in the tooltip.
3. If I need the action, I click on it.
4. After some time, I have learnt what that icon stands for and I no longer need the explanatory tooltip, so I can click on the iconized button directly if I need the action to be performed.

Of course, it is very desirable that a certain standard of icon meaning be maintained. As an example, I see that in TinyMCE the "paintbrush" icon has the meaning of "Cleanup messy code" (whatever that may mean), whereas MS Word users are used to that icon with the meaning of "Format painter".

Joseph

Sorry, I do not understand your problem. Are you sure you are talking about the Lesson Activity in Moodle? or something else? Please could you re-phrase your question?
Joseph

Len,
I cannot reproduce your problem. Here's my scenario.
In course A create a glossary, with concept entries purposefully created in an order which does not respect alphabetical order. Here are the contents of that Glossary:
Browse by alphabet
concept01:
concept01 created at 22:51 19/08/2009
concept02:
concept02 created at 22:49 19/08/2009
concept03:
concept03 entered at 15:31 19/08/2009
concept04:
concept04 created at 22:50 19/08/2009

Browse by date
concept03:
concept03 entered at 15:31 19/08/2009
concept02:
concept02 created at 22:49 19/08/2009
concept04:
concept04 created at 22:50 19/08/2009
concept01:
concept01 created at 22:51 19/08/2009

I export that Glossary and then import it into Course B.
If I Browse by alphabet or by date, I get exactly the same display as for Course A.

What do you mean by "The question was why, when I exported then imported the glossary entries to a 2nd Moodle course, the order was mixed up?" Which "order" do you mean?

Joseph

Len:

By the way, FYI, I noticed that Moodle tolerates 'division by zero'! If you generate problems in 'calculated' quiz questions and get a denominator example of,say, 15/(4-4), rather than indicate an error, you get an overall answer of zero. Such an attack on the integrity of the order of the universe can be dangerous!

You should post that remark to the Quiz forum; it might interest the maintainer of the calculated question type, Pierre Pichet.

Joseph

Where did you create your glossary : at site level or at course level? Where do you want to put your random entry block : at site level or at course level?
What do you call a "root glossary"?
Joseph