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! style="background:#ffdead;" | ID | ! style="background:#ffdead;" | ID | ||
! style="background:#ffdead;" | Name of the long list | ! style="background:#ffdead;" | Name of the long list | ||
! style="background:#efefef;" | | ! style="background:#efefef;" | Similarities | ||
! style="background:#efefef;" | Differences | ! style="background:#efefef;" | Differences | ||
! style="background:#efefef;" | Are the differences justified? | ! style="background:#efefef;" | Are the differences justified? | ||
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| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | 1 | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | 1 | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Courses | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Courses | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Both students and courses list all the items ordered alphabetically without limiting the number of entries. | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | It does not index the courses alphabetically. | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | It is not strictly necessary to index the courses alphabetically although in some cases could be useful. | ||
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| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | 2 | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | 2 | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Students | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Students | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Both students and courses list all the items ordered alphabetically without limiting the number of entries. | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | It does not index the students alphabetically. | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Perhaps it would be useful to index students alphabetically. | ||
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| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | 3 | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | 3 | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Participants | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Participants | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Participants are ordered in an arrival way (every page has a limited number of participants per page) | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Participants are ordered in an alphabetical way. | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Indexing alphabetically is justified as son people can be searched by its surname. | ||
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| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | 4 | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | 4 | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Questions | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Questions | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Participants are ordered in an arrival way (every page has a limited number of participants per page) | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | There is no alphabetic or date indexing. | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Perhaps it will help the user to allow other ways of indexing (by alphabetical order or by date) | ||
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| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | 5 | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | 5 | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Recent activity | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Recent activity | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Recent activity is displayed by order of arrival althougt all activity is not showed (there is a limit of activities). Participants are ordered both by order of arrival (there is no a limited number of participants per page) | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | Both questions and recent activity. | ||
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | | | style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | In recent activity the activities are indexed by days rather than by the number of page. | ||
|- | |- The index difference is justified because it is more usable to index recent activity pages per days rather than the number (the day is important to situate the activity) | ||
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Revision as of 14:44, 11 August 2008
Adjust the number of course per page of the course listing
Of course this is totally possible; however, it is a setting listed under front page settings which does not seem to me to be the most intuitive place for it. I would expect it to be somewhere under courses but the argument could be made that you really only browse courses from the front page. Everywhere else you are in a particular course. In any case, this might be a neat area to explore using AJAX.
How does Moodle handle long lists?
There should be an option for # of entries per page, ways of sorting and filtering, etc.
Comparison of the various long lists (courses, students, participants, questions, etc.)
Table
| ID | Name of the long list | Similarities | Differences | Are the differences justified? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Courses | Both students and courses list all the items ordered alphabetically without limiting the number of entries. | It does not index the courses alphabetically. | It is not strictly necessary to index the courses alphabetically although in some cases could be useful. |
| 2 | Students | Both students and courses list all the items ordered alphabetically without limiting the number of entries. | It does not index the students alphabetically. | Perhaps it would be useful to index students alphabetically. |
| 3 | Participants | Participants are ordered in an arrival way (every page has a limited number of participants per page) | Participants are ordered in an alphabetical way. | Indexing alphabetically is justified as son people can be searched by its surname. |
| 4 | Questions | Participants are ordered in an arrival way (every page has a limited number of participants per page) | There is no alphabetic or date indexing. | Perhaps it will help the user to allow other ways of indexing (by alphabetical order or by date) |
| 5 | Recent activity | Recent activity is displayed by order of arrival althougt all activity is not showed (there is a limit of activities). Participants are ordered both by order of arrival (there is no a limited number of participants per page) | Both questions and recent activity. | In recent activity the activities are indexed by days rather than by the number of page. |
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