David Scotson

Yes, I think we agree. The icons I've gotten rid of are (at the moment) primarily those in the sideblocks where almost by default, it is assumed that each entry in a list needs an icon. Most of them are rather vague (it is quite hard to come up with icons for many of the concepts), and the sheer number of icons reduces the impact of the ones that I do like and find useful such as the filetype, forum etc. icons that you list.

But for many, or most of the action icons, I'd think that text would be clearly superior, especially given the number of reports of confusion in this forum. As I said I'll give it a try and people can see what they think.

With the hover thing, I know in theory what's happening, but am finding it difficult to get hold of various Microsoft OS and browser combinations to check these things out in practice.

Basically, you can put a hover effect on anything in most browsers. I've used this so that secondary information within forumposts are greyed out and not competing for attention with the main content until you hover over them, when they are darkened and the contrast increased to make them more readable.

In IE you can only apply hover effects to hyperlinks. I was originally going to just leave the text in their hover ('on') state but Urs reminded me that you can use javascript in a .htc file to simulate the same kind of hover effect in IE. The effect can be processor intensive, particularly on long pages, so I've tried to target it as narrowly as possible. If it only works sometimes, then I've probably targetted it too narrowly in some way.

I'm trying to get Virtual PC set up again (I upgraded to Mac OS X Tiger and the Virtual PC update to make it work again on this OS only came out this last week) which should make it easier for me to carry out such tests and iron out the niggly problems with IE.

I'm glad you got the SCORM working. I never actually got your SCORM to load (something about a manifest) but the test SCORM I found on the web loaded and worked okay apart from the transparent background issue.

I brought this idea up in bug #2713 but I've finally got around to trying it out. I've uploaded the changed file and I'd appreciate it if people, particularly those who use Glossary categories (and doubly especially those who use multiple categories), could check it out and give me some feedback on it.

To get it to work, copy or otherwise backup the file `mod/glossary/edit.html` and replace it with the file I've uploaded.

The basic difference is that you should see a list of the categories available in a Glossary on the right hand side of the text entry area with a checkbox next to each one, allowing it to be selected or deselected.

There are two main ways this could be improved:

* display two javascript links: 'select all' and 'select none' which do exactly that when there are two more more categories available.

* give the option, when updating a Glossary, to make the categories exclusive. If they are then the checkbox becomes a radio button and the 'not categorised' entry makes a comeback.

Any feedback will be gratefully recieved.

a picture's worth a thousand words:

The pragmatist in me suggests that your browser bookmarks/favourites are probably the best way to achieve this for your own use. Simply bookmark the forum, discussion or post with a brief note about why you think it's important and you should be able to retrieve it later with no trouble at all (the better your browser the easier this will be).

The techn-utopian in me thinks that some folksonomic categorisation / shared bookmarks tagging system built into the Moodle forums would be ideal for this kind of task. However most Moodle sites are not as public or as well trafficed as Moodle.org so the benefit of adding this functionality would probably be limited for most Moodle users.

However, combining these thoughts, and remembering that Moodle.org is available on the open web, I'm wondering how succesful it would be to link to various specific posts via del.icio.us, furl or some other social bookmarking tool that allows tagging of URLs (which is what basically everything in Moodle.org is when you get right down to it).

The new Technorati redisign lists lots of stuff for the tag:moodle including moodle photos from Flickr and moodle links from furl, and from delicous

So hooking up with some external service and allowing people to use that system to categorise, rate and link the contents of Moodle.org would seem to be a way forward.