From Friday Mailing 5th November 2021

Has the scroll of death died? Until recently the advice was to keep your main course (or module) page short in Moodle with most of the content in sub-pages. This was to avoid users having to move way down the page to find the section they were working on – the so-called scroll of death. There has been a slight change in attitude given the way Facebook and other platforms have embraced the idea of scrolling that truly never ends. However, it will be a short course that can display all its content on just a single page. This is where the Moodle “Page” resource comes in. A Page resource has a title and two “labels”. The first label is the description and can be displayed on the main course page, the second is the main page content, and like any label can contain text, images, links or even videos. A Page Resource section has been added to the course and more information has been added to the label section. https://example.commonawards.org/course/view.php?id=77
 
Pro Tip: You will notice that my course has been set up using what is known as the “grid format” so that all the sections are listed at the top with an image to link to open them on a new page. You can change the format of a whole course at any time.
 
Finally, something we can all learn from Facebook is the importance of images. How long would you keep scrolling if it was just text? Ken