Clik here to view.
2010 Study Direct landing page
Again, following a usability study of our moodle install Study Direct at the University of Sussex the team began to make some improvements to the ‘Your sites’ page which lists the course sites users...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Moodle Developments – File upload & management pt1
As a large HE using moodle one of the main problems our Staff and Tutors have with moodle is file management. On a daily basis our tutors, academics and staff use our moodle install at Sussex to add...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Things we love about moodle2 pt3 – section name
Edit the summary of any section in moodle2 and you’ll see a new field – Section name. This is another step in bringing moodle into line with other content management systems, and we like it. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Moodle guest access
If you login as a guest on the Sussex Moodle, Study Direct, you’ll see something very different from a standard Moodle install. Guest users are presented with sites – by academic year – to which the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Importing user profile photos into Moodle
At Sussex we encourage the use of user profile images (avatars) in our Moodle installation because it provides a more personal learning experience, encourages interaction and improves usability of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Moodle Developments – Quick editor toolbar
In Moodle some of the things users need to quickly do can be buried in the middle of a form, without an obvious label. In order to help out our staff and tutors we added a quick editor toobar which has...
View ArticleMoodle history/extended memory issue – cache with $USER->display &...
The problem : When a user in moodle chooses to view a single section of a site, they are shown the section as expected. Moodle stores which section you are viewing, so that when you go to a resource or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Moodle Developments – Giving Moodle courses visual identities
Good web experiences usually implies one which is intuitive and visually appealing. This implies using visual identifiers in conjunction with texts, reducing the need to read in order to make meaning...
View ArticleMoodle Moot UK 2011 presentation
Our abstract to present at the UK Moodle Moot 2011 has been accepted. Hurrah! We will be presenting at Senate House, University of London, on Wednesday at 11:45. Hopefully I’ll have a suntan as I will...
View ArticleCreating groups automatically in Moodle
At their MoodleMoot UK 2011 presentation, Paolo and Stuart outlined some of changes that have been made to Study Direct (Moodle at Sussex) to improve the user experience for both staff and students....
View ArticleMoodle pages format
Here is a short video of a new format (for moodle2 and 1.9) we are currently calling pages. Click here to view the embedded video. We hope the pages format is similar to design patterns used in other...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Moodle breadcrumb
When navigating a web site I like to know where I am so I do not feel disorientated or lost. Most web sites have a breadcrumb bar to help me with this. The metaphor is that the user has left a trail of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Recent activity in Moodle
We want our Moodle to be a dynamic online space, but there is a barrier to this. Currently to spot if any changes have occured to their moodle sites users have to rely on getting email updates or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
moodle dashboard
The information architecture of moodle can be rather confusing for both students & tutors. One of the reasons for this, suggested by our users, is that in comparison to most other web based content...
View ArticleBrighton UX 2011 notes
Brighton UX 2011 notes + linkdump Dunbar’s number (approx. 150) can be a good guide for cohort sizes in e-learning as well as soical media Boys like to ‘do stuff’ together to re-enforce social groups,...
View ArticleGoogle docs and Moodle integration
Collaborative working is a useful practice to enhance learning. Online document sharing such as that possible with Google docs provides a platform for collaborative working online. This is one of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Simplifying a Moodle form
I used to think that a good virtual learning environment was the one that was the most flexible. If the technology could enable it, it should enable it. But I could not understand why so few of Sussex...
View ArticleFavourite Moodle courses
Our Moodle users can have a lot of course sites, but they usually only visit a few of them regularly. In order to make their lives easier we have introduced the concept of “favouriting”. When a user...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ireland and UK Moodlemoot 2012
Two weeks have passed since the Ireland and UK Moodlemoot and a number of participants have written some excellent blog posts that summarise their experiences of the event. I thought I’d use this post...
View ArticleEditing activities, labels & resource
We did some work earlier this year on looking at whats been called moodle’s edit clutter. The edit clutter can roughly be described as the screen ‘noise’ provided by all the amount of icons on a moodle...
View ArticleClik here to view.
100% section titles
Section titles are important for a user to get a good experience of a Moodle site. They are used in the contents menu of the site thus making them primary navigation tools. They are like the chapter...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Better user experience; better learning experience?
In order for students to have great learning experiences, we believe that students, and the people who teach and support them, need to have great user experiences. That’s been at the heart of the work...
View ArticleClik here to view.
E-learning team presentation at Moodle Moot Dublin 2013
In case our Moodlemoot Dublin abstract has left you salivating but you have found that our presentation wasn’t recorded, we thought we’d give a quick overview. Sussex University is a research-led...
View ArticleMaking the Moodle assignment module easy to use
Over the last year we have made a few changes to the assignment tool in Moodle to improve the student and tutors’ experience. We tried to simplify assignments by removing the confusing (or never...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New names for the Moodle label and page mods
When you create a Moodle course you can add two generic types of learning material. One provides non-interactive content, and the other provides tools for student interaction. Moodle calls these two...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Easy-to-use integration of a library reading list system into Moodle
The library uses a system which allows tutors to create lists of reading resources which simultaneously inform the students what they should be reading and the library of what books and articles they...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Recommendations for Moodle HQ
This blog post comes on the back of the Moodle moot conference we attended in Edinburgh this month. As in most conferences we received many comments from the Moodle community such as this one by Mark...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A new Moodle home page: “I am studying towards a degree, not a group of...
At Sussex University we have taken steps to reconceptualise our learning space from the point of view of the students. Students understand their educational journey to be one towards accreditation in a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Where is my feedback?
Tutors give feedback to formal assessments via our student administrative system. Up until March this year the students accessed this feedback through the same system. Now we have now added a new view...
View ArticleIntegrating learning tools with our learning platform
The more learning management systems (LMS) are used for assessments, the more the stakes in the system grow and the more security becomes a serious issue. Iframes are an html technology that is...
View Article