By: Stuart Mealor

Stuart Mealor — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 20:37:36 +0000

That’s a great post Gareth !
Refactoring is a “way of life” for me, as someone who designs, creates, and facilitates courses.
With Moodle, every 6 months, I review the release notes, in FINE detail, to see if anything impacts on the content we have in courses.
And then find the parts of the courses that need to be updated.
Now and again, the changes have major impact.
An obvious one for me is that all our early movies about Moodle were created using the Standard Theme (later called Clean).
But then Boost came along as the new standard.
For new users, the two look quite different, and certainly the menus and navigation are very different for admins – so a change in the Moodle interface effectively rendered all our movie ‘out of date’ 🙁
(I see so may YouTube movies about Moodle that are using unusual Themes, or settings, that don’t easily ‘translate’ for new teachers, because everything looks so different).
With course content, every few years there is a “let’s start again” moment, when it’s necessary to duplicate a course (so we have the safety of keeping the old version) and then giving a ‘good prune’ to the copy, really cutting back on old content, and biting the bullet to refactor into a new module, or topic.
C’est la vie!

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By: Stuart Mealor