Usability issues - Tabs

Identification of the tabs

To a large degree this has been done but it would be nice to have a table indicating areas where additional tabs are needed, to evaluate tab order, etc.

The consistent top row is:

• View
• Submissions
• Update activity
• Assign roles
• Override permissions

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ID	Specific Tabs	First tab line	Second tab line & justification of tabs order
1	Quiz	Info, Results, Preview, Edit (default), Settings, Assign roles, Override permissions	2nd tab line: Quiz (default), Questions, Categories, Import, Export
2	Forum	Edit (default), Settings, Assign roles, Override permissions	No 2n tab line. Edit would contain the information of "add a discussion topic".
3	Glossary	Edit (default), Settings, Assign roles, Override permissions	2nd tab line: Search, Browse by alphabet, Browse by category, Browse by date, Browse by Author, Import, Export, Print. Edit would contain the information of "add a new entry".
4	Chat	Settings, Assign roles, Override permissions	2n tab line: Enter to the chat (default), Enter without frames and Javascript, Chat history. I would replace "View past chat sessions" by chat history (it must be taken into account that it has been used the concept "message history" previously at Moodle).
5	Choice	Edit (default), View responses, Settings, Assign roles, Override permissions	No 2nd tab line.

Screenshots

Quiz

Glossary

Chat

Choice

Forum

Assignments

Database

Lesson

Survey

Wiki

Possibility of moving tabs using javascript mentioned in the Fluid project (Javascript vs. AJAX)

This is related to support tab layout widgets. I think I might prefer javascript to AJAX as my impression has been that AJAX generally slows the page down especially for large courses. Again, some research on comparing these appoaches could be useful to the developers as we try to figure out how best to implement the tabs.

Circumstances would tabs cause more confusion or not be recommended

It would be recommended to add this tabs and delete the update activity button because the information of the activity is displayed in the same page and accessing with that button increments too much the number of clicks to update.