Thomas Hanley

Hi Alex,

Many thanks to you and to everyone at NetSapiensis who worked on this block. I find that it is much clearer than the standard navigation block. The configuration options are a very good idea as Moodle is used in so many different contexts and on so many different scales.

My organisation's use of Moodle is on the smaller end of the scale. I therefore try to use the absolute minimal number of blocks, options, possibilities. I am using the Course menu block with the  'Show All Sections' and 'My courses' options enabled.

When using the menu 'My courses' will expand and show 'participants'. For me this only lists the current user and I feel that it is redudant. Is there any way of removing the 'Participants' part of the menu as illustrated below? I would like to remove everything within the blue rectangle.

I am using Moodle 2.03.
Course menu version 2011051801

Many thanks

~thomas

Hi,

Thanks to everyone who have offered the above workarounds. For data confidentiality reasons I also need to configure Moodle so that our users cannot see eachothers email addresses.

I have just tried the PHP hacks using Moodle 2.03 and couldn't get this to work. I then requested help from Sean Keogh from our Moodle Partner Remote Learner who advised that a setting could be changed within Moodle's internal user database:

You can alter the field called emaildisplay. It defaults to the value 2 (presumably to allow emails to be visible).

However, this default can be changed in to 0, so that whenever a new account is created, whether manually or via the databae authentication, the email address of the user should be hidden from all other users.

Where there were existing users in the database whose record for emaildisplay was set to 2 Sean did a search and replace on them to make them all have 0 in that field. The post below by Noveck Gowandan also suggest this as a solution:

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67723#p617062

~thomas

Hi Mary,

I find it helpful to know what the percentages YUI 3 uses mean. This is mainly down to my interest in typography and how typefaces are sized in a proportionate and elegant way. The developer docs on Yahoo set out how the percentages related to the pixel sizes that the browser renders:

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/cssfonts/#fontsize

~thomas

Francis,

Thanks for posting this. I found it useful as for me displaying 'Topic Outline' is pointless. I have just tried this using Moodle 2.03 and have a couple of minor amends to your intsructions:

1) I found that I had to put the H1 above the PHP call as otherwise the Course title ended up in the footer for some reason:

<h1 class="myCourseTitle"><?php echo  $PAGE->heading ?></h1>
<?php echo core_renderer::MAIN_CONTENT_TOKEN ?>

2) A little typo: Class names need to match in the h1 above and in the css definition of the class ie both should be myCourseTitle

Thanks again

~thomas

Hello Fred and Dan,

I have just started moving our Moodle site from 1.9 to Moodle 2.03. I agree with you both that it would be very helpful if the navigation block could have more configuration options. I had high hopes for the new navigation system in Moodle 2.0 after finding Moodle 1.9's navigation to be confusing for users.

I have played around for almost 2 days now with navigation in Moodle 2.0. There are some improvemets for sure, but I believe there are serious flaws in terms of user experience. Well, enough ranting ; ). So far the best option I have found is to remove Moodle 2.0s core Navigation block entirely as I find it offers options that I don't need and that the way it handles navigation within courses to be confusing.

I have replaced the Navigation block with NetSapiensis' Course Menu block to handle both choosing a course and navigating within a course. Here is what it looks like within the new Aardvark theme:

You will see that some of the clutter from the Navigation menu has disappeared. I hope this helps.

~thomas