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.

Before starting a new discussion topic, please try a forum search and have a look at the list of issues with component Usability in the tracker.

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Discussion	Started by	Last post	Replies
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
Support for old Greek? Locked	Wouter de Jong 11 Oct 2017	Mary Cooch 11 Oct 2017	1
Automatically open messaging drawer	Wolf McCloud 18 Nov 2020	Wolf McCloud 18 Nov 2020	0
Moodle is not loading graphics 3.9.2	Willow Schools 15 Oct 2020	Willow Schools 10 Nov 2020	6
Help on Usability Test Development Locked	William Dale Santander 11 Sep 2016	Gareth J Barnard 11 Sep 2016	1
Activity chooser Locked	William Lu 26 Feb 2016	Mike Churchward 9 Mar 2016	3
Contextual Help Locked	Will Gimenes 19 Aug 2015	Will Gimenes 19 Aug 2015	0
Moodle As Graphic Novel	Will McConnell 2 Sep 2020	Will McConnell 2 Sep 2020	0
Hide courses from search but still make available to students	Wes Sykes 28 Feb 2020	Wes Sykes 28 Feb 2020	0
Drag and Drop to in Gradebook Setup Tab? Locked	Wendy Mack 30 Jun 2015	Marcus Green 1 Jul 2015	3
Course overview takes me to news forum? Locked	Walter Byrd 16 Jul 2015	Mary Cooch 16 Jul 2015	1
A better PayPal logo and button Locked	Walter Byrd 16 Nov 2017	Walter Byrd 16 Nov 2017	0
Can I change the font if using markdown editor? Locked	Walter Byrd 20 May 2018	Colin Fraser 1 Jul 2018	1
Quiz: "Submit Answer" not "Next Page"	Walter Byrd 30 Mar 2020	AL Rachels 30 Mar 2020	5
IMO: "Announcements" could be improved	Walter Byrd 7 Aug 2020	Walter Byrd 7 Aug 2020	0
Usability of Moodle Locked	W L 12 Apr 2017	Marcus Green 14 Apr 2017	1
Bringing Course Events to Frontpage authenticated users Locked	Visti Larsen 24 Apr 2015	Visti Larsen 24 Apr 2015	0
how to visible the site administration and navigation option Locked	vishal Soni 19 Dec 2014	Aaryan Mehra 11 Feb 2015	3
Fixing the main menu block Locked	Virgil Ashruf 9 Jun 2016	Richard Oelmann 9 Jun 2016	1
More button under Navigation block doesnot work, it goes to dashboard.	Veenu Veenu 23 May 2020	Ana Ekonomi 29 Oct 2020	1
Fault schedule_task.php in moodle 3.6.2 Error code: cannotfindthepathtothecli Locked	Vagton Alves Ferreira 31 Jan 2019	Vagton Alves Ferreira 31 Jan 2019	0
Moodle System Message Troubles? Locked	Troy May 15 Jun 2017	Troy May 15 Jun 2017	0
Elevate Privilege by Topic Locked	Troy Patterson 31 Oct 2017	Troy Patterson 31 Oct 2017	0
Removing bottom navigation links Locked	Tricia Alexander 3 Mar 2018	Tricia Alexander 7 Mar 2018	2
Slow email after enabling airnotifier service. Locked	Trevor Jones 2 Oct 2019	Dominique Palumbo 28 Nov 2019	4
3.1 After One Quarter of Use (Grades/Assignment tool)..... Locked	Tonia Malone 16 Dec 2016	David Morrow 3 Jan 2017	1
Help: Students view enrolled course titles (visible) but not accessible Locked	Tommy Lister 21 Aug 2015	Tommy Lister 21 Aug 2015	0
Best video format & software for mobile user (iphone) compatibility Locked	Tom Coffey 13 Mar 2015	Jon Witts 24 Mar 2015	5
Dynamic numbering of courses by enrollment order Locked	Tom Wright 3 Jun 2019	Tom Wright 3 Jun 2019	0
Uploader progress bar	Tom T 22 May 2020	Tom T 18 Jun 2020	2
PDF Annotate problems (Wacom)	Tobias Fritz 29 Apr 2020	Tobias Fritz 29 Apr 2020	0
unexpected token errors Locked	TJ Russell 5 Feb 2015	Mauno Korpelainen 10 Feb 2015	4
Usability: Moodle usability - general principles Locked	Tim Hunt 23 Mar 2008	dawn alderson 3 Dec 2014	9
We have to stop doing this! (Silly settings) Locked	Tim Hunt 2 Apr 2016	Martin H 2 Jun 2016	21
Usability problem: adding random questions Locked	Tim Hunt 3 Apr 2016	Tim Hunt 3 Apr 2016	0
Small usability point regarding the group selector Locked	Tim Hunt 18 Aug 2017	Tim Hunt 18 Aug 2017	0
Closing dialogues Locked	Tim Hunt 22 Sep 2017	Jan Dageförde 17 Oct 2017	1
AJAX errors after session timeout + Chrome restart Locked	Tim Schroeder 13 Feb 2018	Tim Schroeder 27 Feb 2018	2
Calendar: inconsistent visibility of group events Locked	Tim Schroeder 10 Aug 2018	Tim Schroeder 5 Sep 2018	1
Calendar: inconsistent course names Locked	Tim Schroeder 14 Aug 2018	Tim Schroeder 14 Aug 2018	0
Calendar: event duration advanced? Locked	Tim Schroeder 15 Aug 2018	Tim Schroeder 15 Aug 2018	0
#anchor in links Locked	Tim Reinier 24 Oct 2018	Tim Reinier 25 Oct 2018	1
User experience is not nice if a site has GDPR policies, you are a registered user, but not ... Locked	Tim Hunt 29 May 2019	Tim Hunt 30 May 2019	1
How to make a quiz containing 10 questions at random from a bank of 20 is not discoverable	Tim Hunt 6 Jan 2020	Hugo Ribeiro 22 Jan 2020	7
Session time-out warning dialogue - could be better	Tim Hunt 4 May 2020	Tim Hunt 4 May 2020	1
Is noodle accessible with voiceover? Locked	Through Dee’s Eyes 30 Jan 2019	Dan Marsden 30 Jan 2019	3
[3.8] - End of schoolyear, saving results and having new students	Thomas Renard 5 Jan 2020	Thomas Renard 6 Jan 2020	2
[3.8] - Student images uploads and viewing them.	Thomas Renard 11 Jan 2020	Moumita Adak 17 Jan 2020	1
Simplified File Picker?	Thom Rawson 23 Jun 2020	Sathiraju Sunkara 13 Sep 2020	4
Representation of the progress of competencies acquisition Locked	Thierry Warnant 28 Feb 2018	Thierry Warnant 28 Feb 2018	0
Lock more than one numeric entry Locked	Thiago Almeida 10 Feb 2018	Thiago Almeida 10 Feb 2018	0
Skip Grader Locked	Theocharis Livieratos 30 Apr 2018	Theocharis Livieratos 30 Apr 2018	0
Separate Groups not working Locked	Tarandeep Singh 19 Apr 2018	Tarandeep Singh 19 Apr 2018	0
Cohort based course restriction Locked	Tarandeep Singh 19 Apr 2018	Stephen Oxlade 17 Aug 2018	2
Usability Suggestion – Global Editing Locked	Tara Mann 16 Jul 2015	Sue Holtz 20 Jul 2015	10
Course Navigation Locked	Tara Mann 17 Dec 2016	Derek Chirnside 18 Apr 2017	8
Editing course activity page Locked	Tara Mann 11 Jan 2018	Rahul Kumar 17 May 2018	1
Best forum for UX Locked	Tara Mann 28 Sep 2018	Tim Hunt 2 Oct 2018	1
Role based messaging permissions - is this possible?	T JR 29 Jan 2020	T JR 29 Jan 2020	0
Removed submitted grade and allow regrading?	T LJ 14 Jul 2020	Shirley Gregorczyk 15 Jul 2020	1
Accessibility block Locked	Sya Rahim 23 May 2018	C Schipper 24 May 2018	1
Copy a forum to 100's of courses	Suzanne Thomas 24 Mar 2020	AL Rachels 25 Mar 2020	1
Bluejeans & Moodle Locked	Susan Fleming 2 May 2015	Samuel Than 16 Oct 2015	5
marking guide/rubric - no stay or leave page message Locked	Susan Fleming 7 Dec 2016	Susan Fleming 7 Dec 2016	0
Assignment module usability refinements Locked	Stuart Lamour 13 Mar 2017	Stuart Lamour 17 Dec 2017	7
Remarking Essay questions	Stu Van Rizzle 14 May 2020	Stu Van Rizzle 14 May 2020	0
Charity organisation reaching out for suggestions Locked	Steven Swanepoel 21 Apr 2015	Steven Swanepoel 21 Apr 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
View as group/grouping Locked	Steve McGuire 10 Jun 2015	Steve Ambro v3.8 11 Sep 2016	2
"Options" when Grading peculiarity.... Locked	Steve Ambro v3.8 11 Sep 2016	Steve Ambro v3.8 19 Sep 2016	15
Grades overview report - issue with parents viewing student grades	Stephanie Worden 21 May 2020	Stephanie Worden 21 May 2020	0
Parent block doesn't show up in Moodle phone app	Stephanie Worden 20 Aug 2020	Stephanie Worden 20 Aug 2020	0
Participants view should be merged with Enrolled users view Locked	stefan weber 17 Aug 2017	Mary Cooch 17 Aug 2017	1
Possible to hide Group mode icons in course edit mode? Locked	stefan weber 5 Oct 2017	stefan weber 31 Oct 2017	3
Show overall course visibility in navbar Locked	stefan weber 6 Apr 2018	Colin Fraser 11 Apr 2018	1
Add link to language preference settings to language menu Locked	stefan weber 20 Apr 2018	Séverin Terrier 3 May 2018	6
Set up a search-box (textfield/html) to search content within a specific course?	Stefan Joller 2 Nov 2020	Stefan Joller 12 Nov 2020	1
Proper names capitalisation in Moodle Locked	Stamos Spiliotis 20 Dec 2018	Stamos Spiliotis 24 Dec 2018	3
Moodle 3.8 Forum change suggestion	Skye Nguyen 27 Oct 2020	Randy Thornton 4 Dec 2020	9
Improvements to 'Tab edition utilities' Locked	Simonne Wood 5 Jul 2018	Thomas Colby 17 Jul 2018	1
Add guest access courses to starred courses block Locked	Simon Lewis 13 Mar 2019	Simon Lewis 26 Mar 2019	1
Assign roles issue Locked	Silver Mina 10 Oct 2019	Silver Mina 10 Oct 2019	0
User hierarchy or escalation matrix Locked	Siddharth Patel 30 Nov 2017	Marcus Green 1 Dec 2017	1
Learning Plan Templates - visibilty condition? Locked	Shirley Gregorczyk 31 Aug 2018	Shirley Gregorczyk 31 Aug 2018	0
Moving a Competency Framework to a new Category Locked	Shirley Gregorczyk 8 Nov 2018	Shirley Gregorczyk 8 Nov 2018	0
Learning Plan Templates Locked	Shirley Gregorczyk 12 Oct 2019	Shirley Gregorczyk 12 Oct 2019	0
Link a Competency to multiple Learning Plan Templates	Shirley Gregorczyk 1 Jul 2020	Randy Thornton 10 Jul 2020	5
Letting faculty remove multiple sections easily Locked	Sharon Strauss 14 Mar 2018	Helen Foster 10 Aug 2018	3
Need way to edit oodles of access restrictions quickly Locked	Shannon Sookochoff 4 Feb 2016	Shannon Sookochoff 4 Feb 2016	0
Not Losing Activity Completion When Importing Activities to Different Courses Locked	Shannon Carney 18 Jul 2017	Shannon Carney 18 Jul 2017	0
Removing blocks from user profile Locked	SHANKAR JHA 12 Nov 2018	Rahul Kumar 19 Feb 2019	2
File selection, size and attachments Locked	Séverin Terrier 27 Jun 2019	Séverin Terrier 8 Jul 2019	3
subject without teachers Locked	Selma Limbo 19 Apr 2018	Colin Fraser 25 Apr 2018	1
Menu	Scott Siegel 4 Jan 2020	Shirley Gregorczyk 6 Jan 2020	3
Auto Enroll in a Course dependent on other course completions Locked	Sarah Ruth Finkel 11 Oct 2018	Sarah Ruth Finkel 11 Oct 2018	2
Student Quiz-Taking Interface Markups Locked	Sara Goldstein 5 Mar 2015	Marcus Green 5 Mar 2015	1
Quiz Images are not shown	sara rad 9 Nov 2020	sara rad 9 Nov 2020	0
Course pages editting disappears Locked	Sandra Watts 18 Dec 2017	Joost Elshoff 8 Jan 2018	3
Removing required email field in Moodle 2.8+ Locked	Sander van Leeuwen 3 Feb 2015	Rebe LeGoullon 20 Aug 2015	1
Aggregating a Rubric's results Locked	Sam Villamizar 3 Apr 2015	Sam Villamizar 3 Apr 2015	0