Talk:Main page

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 22:58, 23 August 2006 (CDT)

need faq link

can we please have a link to the faq's from the main page? Makes no sense not to!

https://docs.moodle.org/en/FAQ

also would like to see a link for STUDENT as there is with teacher and admin and so on- after all what is all this about??D.I. von Briesen 14:51, 27 June 2007 (CDT)

i see

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

--Yogesh Kulkarni 00:29, 17 May 2007 (CDT)

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Nice to see and find my name here.

Its gr8. --Yogesh Kulkarni 07:17, 21 June 2007 (CDT)

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ending a sentence in "to"

There is absolutely nothing wrong with ending a sentence with a preposition, like "to." The idea that that is wrong came from some misguided grammarians in the beginning of the twentieth century. They felt that Latin was a perfect language, and so they artificially tried to adopt some of its rules; like don't end a sentence with a preposition, or don't split an infinitive. However, English is a Germanic language, not a Romance language. It's perfectly natural in English to casually insert an adverb in the middle of an infinitive, or to end a sentence with a preposition.

Hi Eric, I appreciate your point. In matters of styles, I try not to say things are wrong. As you point out, it is a "casual" form. On the opening page that is read by many "non-native speakers" of an English dialect, I thought it would be better not to end the sentence in to. (attempt at akward humor there :)

Glad to find another person with strong opinions about those Romance logical perfectionists. My viewpoint on the use of "to" has not been accepted by the people who control the "Main page". --Chris collman 04:50, 14 November 2007 (CST)

Hooray 1.9

I think "including the documentation of new features in Moodle 1.9" that jumps to the category index page is a bit much. Perhaps a link to the Release_Notes#Moodle_1.9 section in the release notes. Or, placing a release notes section link at the top of the category index would be an alternative. A new page to chat up just 1.9 seems overkill. Just a thought--Chris collman 08:27, 6 March 2008 (CST)