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16th September 2023 Gareth Barnard

Plugin name

Introduction On MDL-74272, I came across a comment wanting the display of the plugin name to be optional as a

Accessibility Elearning World Moodle Theme UX

16th May 2022 Gareth Barnard

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.

Moodle UX

16th February 2022 Gareth Barnard

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.

Elearning World Moodle Theme

16th June 2021 Gareth Barnard

Theme selector block

Have you ever wanted to compare themes easily? In “What’s in a screenshot” (March 2018), I briefly mentioned my ‘Theme selector’ block that I took over from John Syrinek. It gives you the ability to switch between themes quickly so that you can make the comparisons you want.