Avoiding the moodle Scroll of death
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The document provides tips for designing Moodle courses to avoid long scrolling and improve the user experience. It suggests using a different course format than the default, reducing the number of topics, linking to content instead of listing it, and adding blocks with links to aid navigation. Choosing the right format and layout as well as adding navigation features can help courses feel less like endless scrolls.
Avoiding the moodle Scroll of death
- 1. ways to avoid the scroll of death or how to make a moodle course look a little less like a moodle course Jennifer Jahedkar Chilek eXtension moodle Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
- 2. is the scroll inevitable? http://elearningstuff.net/2013/05/01/is-the-scroll-of-death-inevitable/
- 3. some courses have lots of content
- 4. ways to be less deadly & more friendly • Consider using a different course format • Use real words instead of default section names • Reduce number of topics • Link to content instead of listing it all on screen • Add Section link block or HTML block with links
- 5. choose the right format & layout
- 6. topics format, show all on one page
- 7. show one topic per page
- 9. use less topics even ZERO gives you one
- 11. scrolled down
- 13. add navigation • section links • HTML block of jumps • link to sections within the course (even making images like arrows clickable!)
- 15. html block
- 16. html block
- 17. ways to be less deadly & more friendly • Turn off “Topic 1” default section name • Reduce number of topics (even to O) • Link to content instead of listing it all on screen • Add Section link block or HTML block with links
- 18. ways to avoid the scroll of death or how to make a moodle course look a little less like a moodle course Jennifer Jahedkar Chilek eXtension moodle Texas A&M AgriLife Extension