Thanks for your video. I find the box padding between every element in the course (Welcome, Profile, etc) to be excessive. Those icons are in my opinion too large. Do you know any trick to reduce shrink that padding and reducing the size of the icons? Thanks in advance.
Glad it was helpful! For the icons. The CSS uses .activityiconcontainer { width: 50px; // change these sizes to suit height: 50px; // change these sizes to suit } as well as .activityiconcontainer .activityicon, .activityiconcontainer .icon { margin: 0; height: 24px; // change these sizes to suit width: 24px; // change these sizes to suit } Adding CSS to the site will let you globally reduce the course icons (Yes, they are big :) ) For the padding. It may be a case of find the areas that are the worst and reduce the padding style for each component as there isn't a global way to reduce the padding as it is added on a component basis. I would have liked to see a compact option to the theme especially for teachers and admins to give back all that extra space that is impractical when grading.
@@Ricoshae Thank you very much for your answer! Hope a compact option is back in the future. If the course is pretty long, with lots of documents and activities, the scrolling down is more cumbersome.
After watching the video, it was a surprise to find that no one has commented. This is my third attempt to deploy Moodle. I gave up four years ago and decided to give it another a try when 4.0 was released. In my opinion, 4.0 is not quite Stone Age, but it is very far from state of the art. My first "request" is for a video on how to make the registration process painless. Moodle is famous for being convoluted, but not everyone is a whiz kid nor possessed of motivation to become one. Is there a way to put all the rubbish in the footer: cookie, privacy policy, intellectual property protection. These annoyances can be deployed as pop-up or new windows, but the registration process needs to involve a form, an e-mail, and a confirmation. Then, the login must also be simple and clean with a much better designed forgot password hyperlink. There should be on board self-registering SIMPLE processes and confirmation online message and e-mail. A proper contact us form should be included. I don't see how Moodle will regain the once proud position unless the software is really brought up-to-date.
Yes, there is still a lot of improvements that could be made to make the platform more user friendly. Because it is such a large application it is very slow moving to make core changes and my list of suggested improvements would be fairly lengthy too. But on the other side, the platform is designed to allow developers to add an incredible amount of additional functionality which has been done to many custom builds that have allowed organisations to integrate and manage courses in a very customised manner which in many cases has been a benefit. Other platforms don't allow you to customise the product as much as Moodle does. I think it can be the right platform for some organisations but definitely the wrong platform for others. I use a different LMS depending on the needs of the organisation. There is also commercial themes like Edwiser RemUI that do make some of this easier.
Thanks for your video. I find the box padding between every element in the course (Welcome, Profile, etc) to be excessive. Those icons are in my opinion too large. Do you know any trick to reduce shrink that padding and reducing the size of the icons? Thanks in advance.
Glad it was helpful! For the icons. The CSS uses .activityiconcontainer {
width: 50px; // change these sizes to suit
height: 50px; // change these sizes to suit
}
as well as
.activityiconcontainer .activityicon, .activityiconcontainer .icon {
margin: 0;
height: 24px; // change these sizes to suit
width: 24px; // change these sizes to suit
}
Adding CSS to the site will let you globally reduce the course icons (Yes, they are big :) )
For the padding. It may be a case of find the areas that are the worst and reduce the padding style for each component as there isn't a global way to reduce the padding as it is added on a component basis.
I would have liked to see a compact option to the theme especially for teachers and admins to give back all that extra space that is impractical when grading.
@@Ricoshae Thank you very much for your answer! Hope a compact option is back in the future. If the course is pretty long, with lots of documents and activities, the scrolling down is more cumbersome.
After watching the video, it was a surprise to find that no one has commented. This is my third attempt to deploy Moodle. I gave up four years ago and decided to give it another a try when 4.0 was released. In my opinion, 4.0 is not quite Stone Age, but it is very far from state of the art.
My first "request" is for a video on how to make the registration process painless. Moodle is famous for being convoluted, but not everyone is a whiz kid nor possessed of motivation to become one. Is there a way to put all the rubbish in the footer: cookie, privacy policy, intellectual property protection. These annoyances can be deployed as pop-up or new windows, but the registration process needs to involve a form, an e-mail, and a confirmation. Then, the login must also be simple and clean with a much better designed forgot password hyperlink.
There should be on board self-registering SIMPLE processes and confirmation online message and e-mail.
A proper contact us form should be included. I don't see how Moodle will regain the once proud position unless the software is really brought up-to-date.
Yes, there is still a lot of improvements that could be made to make the platform more user friendly.
Because it is such a large application it is very slow moving to make core changes and my list of suggested improvements would be fairly lengthy too.
But on the other side, the platform is designed to allow developers to add an incredible amount of additional functionality which has been done to many custom builds that have allowed organisations to integrate and manage courses in a very customised manner which in many cases has been a benefit. Other platforms don't allow you to customise the product as much as Moodle does.
I think it can be the right platform for some organisations but definitely the wrong platform for others.
I use a different LMS depending on the needs of the organisation.
There is also commercial themes like Edwiser RemUI that do make some of this easier.