Thomas Hanley

Hi David,

Glad that this helped. Re: University of Sussex blog, much as I would love to take the credit for the excellent approach to Moodle user experience advocated by them this is the work of Stuart Lamour and the team there!

~thomas

Hi David,

Our users also find this confusing. Having one long scrolling page that you jump up and down (or expand and collapse in this case) was popular on the web circa 1996 ; )

Try this:

/* Show all topics icon is confusing so remove it  */

.course-content .topics li .right a {
display: none;
}

HTH

~thomas

PS You may also find the work that University of Sussex have done on a more usable page format interesting:

http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/elearningteam/2011/05/11/moodle-pages-format/

Hi Tony,

Thanks for taking the time to look at this and share your thoughts. I agree with you that having these settings under 'navigation' is confiusing. Would also second what you said about consistency as a fundamental principle of User Interface design.

~thomas

Hi Alex,

Thanks this change would be very much appreciated. I am thinking that there would still be the choice for the user to 'show all topics' or 'show topic x' (even though I don't think seeing everything on screen at once makes for a good user experience!).

However, within the block settings / configuration the Moodle administrator could choose what happens by default. The choice being either

a) Show all topics by default (as currently happens)

b) Show just topic 0 ie the overview / opening topic. Users would then navigate through each topic using the topics menu. Of course, if they preferred to see all topics they could still choose this from the existing button functionality in the course menu block

Many thanks

~thomas

Hi Mary,

You can use IE Tester to run multiple IEs on your PC (assuming that you are a PC user of course!).

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

IETester is a free (both for personal and professional usage) WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE10 preview, IE9, IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed
IE in the same process.

Hope this helps

~thomas