This document provides tips for "unmoodling" or improving the structure and navigation of Moodle course sites. It suggests using tools like graphical navigation labels and the "n-1 topics method" to help users navigate courses with many topics and resources. It also recommends a minor software change from NetSpot that allows the first view of a course to focus on the first topic. The tips are aimed at addressing the "scroll of death" problem that can occur in Moodle when courses have too many topics displayed at once without clear navigation aids.

1. eDayz 2009:Unmoodlingyour Moodle Mark Drechsler Professional Services Manager NetSpot Pty Ltd

2. About me...

4. Sneaky tricks

5. Software changesCase Study: A fictitious course

6. Why is it so? Moodle has a deliberately structure...

7. Which is great when: There aren’t lots of topics/weeks and There aren’t too many resources/activities otherwise...

8. The Scroll Of Death... Otherwisewe may face...

9. No one single cure... ...but there is hope!

10. Tip 1: Better use of tools, e.g.

12. Can be in labels or as an HTML block

14. Tip 3: One very sneaky trick* The ‘n-1’ topics method: youtube.com/watch?v=XtHPUh_BaxM (or search for ‘Moodle unseen’) * Method not endorsed by anyone, may lead to unexpected results causing confusion and delay.

15. And one minor software change Graphical navigation good, but first view is still potentially big NetSpot’s Team Moodle have made small mod to allow first view to focus on Topic 1 (http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19753)

16. Set default topic in Course Settings

17. Questions?