More Flexibility with Folder View: Today's OS Moodle Contribution

More Flexibility with Folder View: Today's OS Moodle Contribution
By Tom Murdock, Co-Founder and VP of Product Marketing

Since the earliest days of Moodle, teachers have been able to organize their courses in different design formats. These were simple organizational frames that helped instructors put their course content in Topics or in Weeks. Through Moodle’s evolution, a few more course formats have been contributed to the community. Some of them complex (think: course as Gantt chart), some of them simpler (think: expandable and collapsible course sections).

Organization Within Folders
Last winter, we introduced “Folder View” to our Moodlerooms clients. Rather than store content in topics, or weeks, instructors organized content into folders. Teachers and students could expand all of the folders at once, or expand and collapse individual folders.






Simpler Tools for Adding/Editing Course Activities
In the instructor’s editing mode, we also removed Moodle’s standard drop-down “add” menus and replaced them with a slicker interface that shows all of the available content types in a single page. Hovering over the content types provides help documentation about them.





After very positive response and high usage-rates of this feature at Moodlerooms, we are happy to share this course format with the wider Moodle Community. Now you can avoid the scroll-of-death-long-course in Moodle by using a familiar course metaphor of folder organization. We believe that your teachers will appreciate the format’s simplified and central editing tools, as well.

If you host Moodle, we encourage you to visit the Moodle plug-in database and download the Folder View course format. Documentation for the feature is available at the Moodle docs site.

Enjoy!

- Tom