Subsections
In Moodle 4.5, ‘Sub sections’ were added to the core functionality in MDL-81765. In this post I’ll give an overview
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A little boost
When a client contacted me asking for assistance in adding a font to the Boost theme, I created a solution for them, one that is quite straightforward to implement. I thought it would make a good post, so with their permission here it is. I’ve not written about fonts in a while and this brings me back to my roots of writing for eLearningWorld.
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Section Zero
With the introduction of Moodle 4.4 the decision has been made to treat the first section, zero, of a course just like any other. These are my thoughts about it.
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A little bit #fab
Introduction With the introduction of H5P in Moodle and having themes that allow us to customise the look brings the
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Take me Back To The Course button
Navigating through an online course can sometimes be challenging for learners, especially when Moodle LMS seems to leave them with
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Plugin name
Introduction On MDL-74272, I came across a comment wanting the display of the plugin name to be optional as a
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Readability
Introduction When I was going my PGCE I was taught that when writing on the board to use separated characters
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Moodle LMS Accessibility in 20 Minutes a Day
What is “accessibility”? If you think that accessibility is the practice of making a Moodle LMS website on the Internet
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Icons, Words, Accessibility and Learning
hen Emma Richardson posted the words “I do like the new Edit Mode button (especially the wording – nice job UX team!) – it makes much more sense to me to have it where it is and it will make it easier for the teachers to understand the purpose I think.” on the Moodle themes forum. This got me thinking again about the ‘Edit button’ and how it has been improved in M4.0 by Bas Brands in MDL-71610. In improving my Foundation theme, I’d decided to remove the ‘Edit mode’ words on the screen because of the space it took up, when once you know what it is, then you don’t need the description. Or do you? In this post I’ll consider this point.
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Moodle 4.0 user interface first look
This post is different from the past, in that it’s a screencast! I’ll show off some of the new user interface features of the forthcoming Moodle 4.0, along with what I’ve been doing in my contributed work that compatible with it.
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