Usability

For discussing issues and ideas for improving usability and accessibility. See also the User experience (UX) space.

Documentation: Usability FAQ
Forum moderators: Daniel Neis Araujo and Marcus Green

This forum is for discussing usability issues and best practice.

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Discussion	Started by	Last post	Replies
Usability: Moodle usability - general principles Locked	Tim Hunt 23 Mar 2008	dawn alderson 3 Dec 2014	9
"Go to message" link on Moodle.org Locked	Daniel Neis Araujo 5 Dec 2014	Daniel Neis Araujo 5 Dec 2014	0
Two very general User Interface principles Locked	Marcus Green 7 Dec 2014	dawn alderson 8 Dec 2014	1
mdl48306 Locked	dawn alderson 9 Dec 2014	Jez H 9 Dec 2014	1
Focus on the 20% Locked	Jez H 9 Dec 2014	Marcus Green 10 Dec 2014	5
The Moodle Gradebook has very poor usability Locked	Marcus Green 10 Dec 2014	Daniel Neis Araujo 17 Dec 2014	11
"Why open source software usability tends to suck" - how do we work around this? Locked	Matt Gibson 29 Jun 2009	Michael Haskell 18 Dec 2014	35
Macrons and Atto editor Locked	Narissa Tuawhiorangi 16 Dec 2014	Tamatoa Audouin 18 Dec 2014	3
Show alphabet filter in grader report regardless of number of student Locked	Nic Duke 17 Dec 2014	Daniel Neis Araujo 19 Dec 2014	4
Search option on enrol/manual/manage.php Locked	Daniel Neis Araujo 19 Dec 2014	Daniel Neis Araujo 19 Dec 2014	0
New Feature Request - Toggle editing shortcut! Locked	Michael Haskell 18 Dec 2014	Colin Fraser 19 Dec 2014	4
Activity (mod) chooser preference Locked	Daniel Neis Araujo 19 Dec 2014	Daniel Neis Araujo 19 Dec 2014	2
quiz - with session keep alive Locked	Colin G 24 Dec 2014	Colin G 29 Dec 2014	2
Myer-Griggs type personality tests Locked	Miles Nicholl 15 Dec 2014	Joseph Rézeau 5 Jan 2015	2
Adding a Background Colour Locked	Anne Roberts 12 Jan 2015	Anne Roberts 12 Jan 2015	2
Course Time Limit for New Users Locked	Rachel Sarafin 28 Jan 2015	Rachel Sarafin 28 Jan 2015	2
Nested Fieldsets Locked	Brian Barnes 29 Jan 2015	Brian Barnes 29 Jan 2015	0
Is It Possible To Do More Than Just Courses and Exams with Moodle? Locked	Michael Hynson 4 Feb 2015	Michael Hynson 5 Feb 2015	2
unexpected token errors Locked	TJ Russell 5 Feb 2015	Mauno Korpelainen 10 Feb 2015	4
how to visible the site administration and navigation option Locked	vishal Soni 19 Dec 2014	Aaryan Mehra 11 Feb 2015	3
Student Quiz-Taking Interface Markups Locked	Sara Goldstein 5 Mar 2015	Marcus Green 5 Mar 2015	1
Setting up a poll in 2.6? Locked	Alan Crean 10 Mar 2015	Daniel Neis Araujo 10 Mar 2015	1
Conditional Access Locked	Revathi V 10 Mar 2015	Revathi V 10 Mar 2015	0
Course management usability Locked	Pau Ferrer Ocaña 12 Mar 2015	Pau Ferrer Ocaña 12 Mar 2015	0
I would like to re-arrange the grading page, how do I find it? Locked	Steve Ambro v3.8 13 Mar 2015	Jeremy Bourdon 14 Mar 2015	1
Is there a keyboard shortcut for Turn Editing On/Off? Locked	Greg Rudl 13 Mar 2015	Just H 14 Mar 2015	3
Making Moodle More Consistent Locked	Jez H 8 Dec 2014	john Simpson 15 Mar 2015	11
How do I calculate and display (sub)totals of estimated time concerning several lesson investment... Locked	Rolf Cper 20 Mar 2015	Rolf Cper 20 Mar 2015	0
resend welcome emails Locked	Patricio Lopez 17 Mar 2015	Roman Rekko 21 Mar 2015	1
How do I embed schemes made with Dia Diagram Editor? Locked	Rolf Cper 20 Mar 2015	Rolf Cper 21 Mar 2015	2
Best video format & software for mobile user (iphone) compatibility Locked	Tom Coffey 13 Mar 2015	Jon Witts 24 Mar 2015	5
Progress bar with Turnitin Assignments? Locked	Alan Crean 25 Mar 2015	Alan Crean 25 Mar 2015	0
Blackboard Learn's new UI/UX Locked	Joseph Thibault 26 Mar 2015	Joseph Thibault 26 Mar 2015	0
Moodle Course Import - HTML Tags appearing Locked	Glen Archer 31 Mar 2015	Glen Archer 31 Mar 2015	0
How to disable additional name fields? Locked	David Rogers 8 Jan 2015	Melissa Benson 2 Apr 2015	12
Aggregating a Rubric's results Locked	Sam Villamizar 3 Apr 2015	Sam Villamizar 3 Apr 2015	0
HTML editor in page content Locked	Laura Overdyk 8 Apr 2015	Laura Overdyk 8 Apr 2015	0
My private files:Restricting file types Locked	ganesh kumar 8 Apr 2015	ganesh kumar 8 Apr 2015	0
How does a student change their theme? Locked	Alan Crean 6 Mar 2015	Marcus Green 8 Apr 2015	4
Possibility of docking blocks by default Locked	Philippe Decloitre 2 Apr 2015	Philippe Decloitre 14 Apr 2015	6
Usability, consistency and moodle logic Locked	anna ko 14 Apr 2015	anna ko 14 Apr 2015	0
How to write a query to get student's note in a course from database Locked	xiangguo wang 22 Mar 2015	Kathir Rajaraman 15 Apr 2015	1
Moving or copy activities from one course to another course Locked	Ike Tylor 9 Apr 2015	mick frain 21 Apr 2015	3
Charity organisation reaching out for suggestions Locked	Steven Swanepoel 21 Apr 2015	Steven Swanepoel 21 Apr 2015	0
Bringing Course Events to Frontpage authenticated users Locked	Visti Larsen 24 Apr 2015	Visti Larsen 24 Apr 2015	0
Allow only Managers to see the administration block Locked	Ashutosh Bhardwaj 27 Apr 2015	Jaswinder Singh 27 Apr 2015	2
CSS to hide iframe on file resource Locked	Chris Kellett 29 Apr 2015	Chris Kellett 30 Apr 2015	1
Customised form Locked	Anna Ffinch 30 Apr 2015	Anna Ffinch 30 Apr 2015	0
Facility for install plugins Locked	Alexander Corrochano 20 May 2015	Alexander Corrochano 20 May 2015	0
Single "add an activity or resource button" Locked	Jaswinder Singh 10 May 2015	Just H 2 Jun 2015	5
Making 'links' more visible Locked	Andrew Field 12 Jun 2015	Andrew Field 12 Jun 2015	1
Simplification of user interface and options for students and instructors Locked	John Mayer 17 Jun 2015	Paula Clough 25 Jun 2015	5
email assignments Locked	Mike Verna 22 Jun 2015	Just H 25 Jun 2015	6
No outline when tabbing regression? Locked	Gareth J Barnard 26 Jun 2015	Gareth J Barnard 26 Jun 2015	2
Some interesting reviews of Moodle Locked	Marcus Green 30 Jun 2015	Marcus Green 30 Jun 2015	2
Drag and Drop to in Gradebook Setup Tab? Locked	Wendy Mack 30 Jun 2015	Marcus Green 1 Jul 2015	3
Export Recent Activity as CSV (and see submitted files) Locked	Neil Hornus 3 Jul 2015	Neil Hornus 3 Jul 2015	0
The term "course" Locked	Gunasekar Rajaratnam 6 Jul 2015	Gunasekar Rajaratnam 6 Jul 2015	2
Screen contrast in 2.8 Locked	Deleted user 6 Jul 2015	Deleted user 7 Jul 2015	2
Course overview takes me to news forum? Locked	Walter Byrd 16 Jul 2015	Mary Cooch 16 Jul 2015	1
Usability Suggestion – Global Editing Locked	Tara Mann 16 Jul 2015	Sue Holtz 20 Jul 2015	10
Resources to be listed in the categories page as a course Locked	Mariano Hoffman 21 Jul 2015	Mary Cooch 21 Jul 2015	1
Usability that is too clever for its own trousers Locked	Marcus Green 15 Jul 2015	Colin Fraser 2 Aug 2015	3
Usability Suggestion - Standard content in new courses Locked	Marcus Green 16 Jul 2015	Marcus Green 2 Aug 2015	2
Unlocking Badges based on Course Total Locked	Josh Moon 12 Aug 2015	Josh Moon 12 Aug 2015	0
Improve usability by "Redirect back to course home page after quiz submission" Locked	Nadirshah Ferozepurwalla 6 Aug 2015	Tim Hunt 19 Aug 2015	4
Contextual Help Locked	Will Gimenes 19 Aug 2015	Will Gimenes 19 Aug 2015	0
Removing required email field in Moodle 2.8+ Locked	Sander van Leeuwen 3 Feb 2015	Rebe LeGoullon 20 Aug 2015	1
Help: Students view enrolled course titles (visible) but not accessible Locked	Tommy Lister 21 Aug 2015	Tommy Lister 21 Aug 2015	0
User Profile Fields--Allow for multi-select in 'Dropdown menu' profile field Locked	Rob Cole 25 Aug 2015	Rob Cole 25 Aug 2015	0
AccessibilityOz Locked	Robin Sitten 26 Aug 2015	Robin Sitten 26 Aug 2015	0
Can I save a topic in Moodle? Locked	Alexander Kuptsov 19 Aug 2015	Robert Brenstein 26 Aug 2015	5
Edit conflicts Locked	Peter Southwood 21 Sep 2015	Peter Southwood 22 Sep 2015	2
Section editing menus Locked	Dan Poltawski 23 Sep 2015	Dan Poltawski 23 Sep 2015	0
PHP inside SCORM Locked	Abhilash AG 29 Sep 2015	Dan Marsden 30 Sep 2015	1
Only site Admins able to use Moodle Mobile App Locked	Nathan Smith 30 Sep 2015	Nathan Smith 30 Sep 2015	0
Should this forum be renamed? Locked	Gareth J Barnard 2 Oct 2015	Daniel Neis Araujo 2 Oct 2015	1
Calculated Simple question type variables reset Locked	Brian Huntley 9 Oct 2015	Brian Huntley 9 Oct 2015	0
Bluejeans & Moodle Locked	Susan Fleming 2 May 2015	Samuel Than 16 Oct 2015	5
Moodle Authentication Figures Locked	Katherine Davies 19 Oct 2015	Katherine Davies 19 Oct 2015	4
Font Locked	pat webber 3 Oct 2015	Simon Rediss-Whitfield 19 Oct 2015	2
Calendar: View only course events by default Locked	Jedidiah Rex 28 Sep 2015	Paul P. 19 Oct 2015	1
drag and drop questions on a small screen device Locked	Josiah Carberry 7 Nov 2015	Tim Hunt 18 Nov 2015	2
Allow user to choose not to persist flexitable preferences accross sections? Locked	Daniel Neis Araujo 18 Nov 2015	Daniel Neis Araujo 18 Nov 2015	0
LDAP/SSO Credentials Locked	Paula Burke 21 Nov 2015	Paula Burke 21 Nov 2015	0
Some good links on Improving Moodle's Usability Locked	Frankie Kam 2 Dec 2015	Frankie Kam 2 Dec 2015	0
Moodle Usability - opening and printing PDF files without leaving Moodle Locked	Frankie Kam 8 Dec 2015	Frankie Kam 8 Dec 2015	0
Track Changes for Collaborative Courses Locked	Eric Strom 8 Dec 2015	Eric Strom 9 Dec 2015	2
Is there a way to generate a user report with dates? Locked	karen friedman 16 Dec 2015	karen friedman 16 Dec 2015	0
Is there a way for a non-programmer to get the list of students with the courses they are ... Locked	Nadirshah Ferozepurwalla 20 Dec 2015	John Provasnik 22 Dec 2015	1
Questions on Enforcements in Moodle Locked	Cape School, Inc. 1 Jan 2016	Tim Hunt 1 Jan 2016	1
Sending message to all participants has a usability problem Locked	anna ko 3 May 2015	Atul Shetty 4 Jan 2016	5
Class not shown on moodle Locked	Consuelo Luna 5 Jan 2016	Marcus Green 6 Jan 2016	1
Programmed Marking Down of Late Quizzes Locked	Christy Coobatis 5 Jan 2016	Tim Hunt 6 Jan 2016	3
moodle hanging Locked	Mohammed awad 9 Jan 2016	Mohammed awad 9 Jan 2016	0
URL's in folders? Locked	Angelo Spiler 19 Jan 2016	Angelo Spiler 21 Jan 2016	4
hide calendar events for a particular course Locked	Rick Lindquist 15 Jan 2016	Kim Salinas 31 Jan 2016	2
Need way to edit oodles of access restrictions quickly Locked	Shannon Sookochoff 4 Feb 2016	Shannon Sookochoff 4 Feb 2016	0
cant connect to the server Locked	Mohammed awad 7 Feb 2016	Mohammed awad 7 Feb 2016	0
Collapsed Topics toggles, accessibility and the space bar. Locked	Gareth J Barnard 17 Dec 2015	Gareth J Barnard 8 Feb 2016	5