As a moodle student

I am taking a course from remote-learner in moodle administration.  It is not the technical or administrative points I want to note today, its the experience taking the course.

Today, I am a student.

These are observations about the course, content, delivery, presentation.

• The site name is well thought out, http://pathfinder.remote-learner.net/
• The content is chunked cleanly.  
• The home page is not cluttered or too wordy.
• There are a *few graphics used.
• There are labels used - to identity the *experience, not just content, but how the content is engaged, look at the labels 

In the graphic below, notice the Getting Started and Learning Community labels. The labels are brief yet description and well placed. They are even pedagogically suggestive!

Note how short the activity links are, since they are used to build the links in the moodle navigation blocks.
Notice also the check marks, providing a visual clue to what you have completed.  This is course wide setting for completion tracking.

Notice 1 graphic.

When you click on a link, like Course Guide - the content within that link is chunked further, rather than placing all the content on the page and requiring a vertical scroll, the content is in little chunks with a pair of Previous - Next buttons.  Very nice.

I also like the highlighting of the unread posts in the forum, easy to visualize what you have missed.  The user simply need to edit their profile and update the Forum tracking option

The Teacher block in the upper right corner looks good, personal and informative

Each Topic is brief - has clear objectives and includes the following activities, which are visually clear

• choice
• forum
• lesson
• quiz
• assignment

Items in the topics are not visible until you click the check marks complete.  This could be a little confusing.  Hiding the activities makes the home page cleaner, promotes a progress - linear path, but does not allow you to see the entire scope of things at once.

This is what the next topic looks like UNTIL I mark the Reflection Journal|Users activity as complete.