Talk:Main page

Suggested Change

I think I am changing my mind again. Admin and Developer documentation pages are very different than the teacher documentation page. I don't like the index idea below. I would like a complete overhaul of the teacher documentation page to match the other two formats. --Chris collman 2 23:06, 23 August 2006 (CDT)

Here is what I (--Chris collman 2) would suggest on this page, my version looks ugly but :)

Documentation

• About Moodle - not sure where ? Special:Categories ?
• Teacher document index
• | Administrator document index
• |Developer document index

Featured Pages for new and old

• Teachers - Teacher page, The Good Teacher and Groups FAQ link etc
• Administrators -Administrator page, Upgrading to Moodle 1.6 and LDAP authentication, link
• Student - | Student document index, Student_tutorials, link
• Developers: 1.6 theme upgrade and the XML database schema
• Everyone: Guidelines for contributors

Just my two cents worth to make it a little bit more friendly to new user. --Chris collman 2 00:34, 31 July 2006 (WST)

Feedback

You make it very difficult to get started with this thing! Now you would think the Main Page would be a good place to start. So on the main page I click "About Moodle", which takes me to a page, which in turn talks about PHP and MySQL, but still nothing really about how to get started. So I try clicking on "moodle with us". Now I see a list of which, "Using Moodle" seems like the most obvious choice. This whisks me off to another page where I click on "WELCOME! Are you new? Confused? Please start here!" Finally, I think, we're getting somewhere. Oops, no! Yet another page that tells me nothing. Instead of a detailed introduction, I am pointed to "documentation for Moodle", which I dutifuly click. Where am I now? Right back at the same Home Page I started from; only more frustrated and none the wiser.

Very interesting wiki site!... Thanx! --HarryRens 15 October 2005 23:42 (WST)

"that everyone may contribute to." is bad English. Better to write "to which everyone may contribute."--N Hansen 20:16, 17 April 2006 (WST)

Discussions

There is very little discussion about MoodleDocs that I can find. I know there used to be a whole course at moodle.org dedicated to discussions about documentation, but that appears to have vanished. Is there a substitute for it? Where can I ask questions about this wiki? For example: How do I change my username from Delius to Gustav? --Gustav Delius 09:41, 26 January 2006 (WST)

Thanks for your comments. Please note that Martin Dougiamas will make an announcement about the documentation very soon. Re. changing your username, the easiest way to achieve this is to re-register with username Gustav then add a redirect #REDIRECT [[User:Gustav]] to your old user page. -- Helen Foster 17:59, 26 January 2006 (WST)

Thanks Helen. I have done that. My username looks more friendly now. --Gustav Delius 18:10, 26 January 2006 (WST)

Main page links

I'd strongly recommend adding the panel of links from About Moodle to the Main Page as well - they're incredibly important. I'm talking about the "Introduction | Background | Philosophy | License | Features | Release Notes | Future | Credits" links. --Dan

Hi Dan, thanks for your recommendation. The main page content definitely needs a re-think. -- Helen Foster 02:31, 27 January 2006 (WST)

I would like to see a reference to the Moodle Community and the collaborative aspects of learning about both Moodle as a product and as a process. I am not sure where would be the best place to anchor that page. --mburnet

Just a brief thought re: "featured pages" and "Teaching Don'ts" link--could we also add "Teaching Dos" so that the focus is balanced and a little more positive for newbies stumbling into this page for the first time? --Lesli Smith

Hi Lesli, as requested, Teaching Do's is now a featured page. Apologies for the delay. --Helen Foster 04:31, 1 April 2006 (WST)

Fantastic Stuff

Just wanted to pop in quickly and say a huge thankyou to Helen for this fantastic resource.

Your work here is looking fantastic. So much for adding your time and expertise to this community. I know what it is like to juggle many hats. If you ever need a hand you need only ask :)

Looking forward to seeing this integrated into 1.6.

Julian

I second that. Great job, Helen! :-) --Art Lader 01:56, 23 February 2006 (WST)

Thanks guys, though it's everyone's contributions that will make Moodle Docs into a great resource! --Helen Foster 03:57, 23 February 2006 (WST)

I'm a little late, but I also want to thank you so much for this wonderful resource.  :-D --Lesli Smith

Add links to international versions (es,...)

Since https://docs.moodle.org is the main site for Moodle Documentation, there must be links to the different international versions, such as the Spanish one: https://docs.moodle.org/es . Maybe something similar to the Wikipedia home page: http://www.wikipedia.org . If not, just links to international versions in the main English page.

Hi David, you're very welcome to add inter-language links - please check the guidelines for contributors for more details. --Helen Foster 05:54, 18 February 2006 (WST)

As long as this page is locked I can not add link to Czech version. --David Mudrak 04:20, 10 July 2006 (WST)

Thanks David, I've just updated the list and added a link to the Czech documentation. --Helen Foster 15:35, 10 July 2006 (WST)

--Jose A. Heredia 08:05, 14 August 2006 (WST)

Hi, Helen, please add link to Slovak version. Thanks. Miroslav Fikar

Headline text ??

Ver tambien la web donde podreis encontrar un Video tutorial en el cual se describe, se ve y se oye como instalar el PHP-NUKE, que aunque no es igual que el Moodle, si se instala y se configura de la misma manera, este video tutorial podeis encontrarlo en el siguiente vinculo [1]

Hi Jose, I don't think this belongs in the english page. --Chris collman 2 21:54, 23 August 2006 (CDT)

Upload Flash

Is it possible to upload Flash files? I tried to do so via the same interface we use for uploading images, but had no luck. --Art Lader 19:10, 22 February 2006 (WST)

Hi Art, sorry it's not possible to upload Flash files for security reasons. Please could you explain what you would like to do, and perhaps send me a sample file, then I'll investigate alternative options. --Helen Foster 03:53, 23 February 2006 (WST)

That is not a probelm, Helen. I have upgraded to SnagIt 8.0 and can add tooltips to screen captures. Just wanted to see if that improved the documentation. No big deal, though. --Art Lader 06:28, 23 February 2006 (WST)

Image on the front page

Can we have a nice image somewhere on the front page, something documenty like books maybe? Just to make the home page stand out a little from the subpages. Martin Dougiamas 22:26, 14 April 2006 (WST)

How about some free stock photography? I tend to use http://www.sxc.hu/ --Darren Smith 23:00, 14 April 2006 (WST)

Hi, let's leave the choice of images to style expert Urs Hunkler --Helen Foster 23:36, 17 April 2006 (WST)

Amazing!

You guys never cease to amaze me.

Disorienting

When I first came to this page, I had no idea that I was looking at a wiki! It would be great to go ahead and put the word 'wiki' somewhere on the page, and maybe on pages linking to this one, so that people know what they're getting into. I expected this page to be the source for official documentation, and so I was very disappointed to click 'Teacher Documentation' and get little more than a quick-start guide. Inside the 'Teacher Documentation' page, though, there is a link to a page which has PDF's of what I would personally call documentation. I could be projecting, but I think others also expect 'documents' rather than 'wikis' when looking for 'documentation'.

The above comment caused me to really look at the Teacher Documentation page, and edit it more than once. I would like to see the Teacher link on the left of this page go to a page that looked similar to the Administrator or Developer link pages. This would help new and old users find things in MoodleDocs quicker. I thank the above author for the quick start comment which encouraged me to make some changes in the Teacher Documentation page until we make a new task orientated page for teachers.

I disagree about the wiki comment. The point is not that it is a wiki, the point is that the document did not meet above author's expectations. I am in mild agreement on that point. With good humor I note: when I first looked at MoodleDocs, "wiki" would be an absolutely meaningless word to me and no help at all. Hey, I've been a new user since C/PM days. :)--Chris collman 2 22:58, 23 August 2006 (CDT)

i see

Wow this completely takes down what I wanted to develope... Maybe I'll do it anyway for fun.