Moodle User Interface Guidelines

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DRAFT DOCUMENT

Many of the pages below are incomplete or obsolete.

These guidelines were produced as part of a student project in 2009, and are not yet official Moodle guidelines.

These guidelines are to be used as a UI reference library by Moodle developers when creating user interfaces.

It does not catalogue all the elements in use in Moodle, but is intended a reference of reusable elements sharing that common Moodle style. We aim to update this reference as new common practices appear. More...

• Help requested: comment on these guidelines

Moodle basics

• Page structure and different page types
• Roles and capabilities
• Groups

Moodle UI library

UIs are built of Elements and Interaction Styles (bigger wholes, which are built of Elements).

Elements

• Big Select List

• Tooltip
• Link
• Button
• Address Bar (URLs)

Interaction Styles

• Wizard
• Help Popups (See Linking to help for now)
• Feedback page
• Form (incomplete)
  • Radio button
  • Checkbox
  • Dropdown lists (incomplete)

General design guidelines

• Progressive Disclosure
• User Data Always (Always) Safe
• Feedback (Incomplete)

Relevant guidelines from other sites

• Design for People
• Don't Limit Your User Base
• Create a Match Between Your Application and the Real World
• Make Your Application Consistent
• Keep the User Informed
• Keep It Simple and Pretty
• Put the User in Control
• Forgive the User
• Provide Direct Manipulation

• Design Patterns Library & Code Standards by Fellowship technologies

See also

• Further development on Talk page: Talk:Moodle_User_Interface_Guidelines
• Using Moodle book

Usability in Moodle

• Usability
• Usability FAQ

Implementation advice

• Developer documentation
• UI coding: Interface_guidelines