by David Scotson.
This all seems really excellent. How much of this can be done in a theme, without waiting on changes in core?
I agree totally and fully agree with every point, with the minor exception of number 3.
I've noticed that, at least in our setup, administrators of Moodle spend a lot more time navigating through the hierarchy of courses than staff or students. We automatically enroll students into all their courses and so they primarily want to jump between courses in that (relatively) short list, and shouldn't have to worry about whether another course is up two steps in the hierarchy and then down again two steps into a different category. This design is all about the admin users use case I think, I think it would look very different if designed from the point of view of many students or staff using Moodle.
Some other random comments:
For part 1, having the users icon here in place of the user icon (when available) is a really nice personal touch, which I think some themes already do (Aardvark I think). User preferences and
For part 6, having a two-column layout makes life very much easier if you want to use Moodle on phones and tablets. On small devices the block column can just slip below the main content, and since you've moved the important stuff to the top menus, that's not a problem. Currently a lot of time and effort is spent supporting the 3 column look and making it work with RTL, accessibility and responsiveness. Enforcing two-columns cuts through that Gordian knot. The only problem is that people are really used to the 3 column look.
Great work!
I agree totally and fully agree with every point, with the minor exception of number 3.
I've noticed that, at least in our setup, administrators of Moodle spend a lot more time navigating through the hierarchy of courses than staff or students. We automatically enroll students into all their courses and so they primarily want to jump between courses in that (relatively) short list, and shouldn't have to worry about whether another course is up two steps in the hierarchy and then down again two steps into a different category. This design is all about the admin users use case I think, I think it would look very different if designed from the point of view of many students or staff using Moodle.
Some other random comments:
For part 1, having the users icon here in place of the user icon (when available) is a really nice personal touch, which I think some themes already do (Aardvark I think). User preferences and
For part 6, having a two-column layout makes life very much easier if you want to use Moodle on phones and tablets. On small devices the block column can just slip below the main content, and since you've moved the important stuff to the top menus, that's not a problem. Currently a lot of time and effort is spent supporting the 3 column look and making it work with RTL, accessibility and responsiveness. Enforcing two-columns cuts through that Gordian knot. The only problem is that people are really used to the 3 column look.
Great work!