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Let's talk about themes and usability
Roger EmerySouthampton Solent University
@SolentRoger
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Current 1.4 Login page
Too much content.Only purpose of the page is to log in.
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Ideas
Reduce the three boxes to the key functions we require of our students
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How do we help the student that is stuck?
Common issue – what do I do now?A wizard or guidance?
More ideas…
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Use action words
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Ideas for ‘clean’ themes
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Five levels of customisation
• Help and Lang files• General CSS for core theme• Additional Themes for users• Exposing existing functionality elsewhere• Core Code changes
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Open to the floor – What do your users find difficult?
• Adding Images• Sharing• Adding items to pages• Profile page is not the
same as other pages• Functionality is spread
across different pages – easy to get lost
• Groups – who can see what? Not clear.
• Page and file management – difficult to organise when you have lots
• Copy page/template process seems to be back top front
• Too many steps/complexity
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Open to the floor –How can we resolve this?
• Wizards– Maybe to prescriptive?
• More Drag and Drop• A page status and group
status page to get an over view and to organise favourite pages and or ‘hide’ others
• In page editing• In page image editing• Inbuilt image processing
(eg resizing and compression)
• Reduce the number of steps – expose functionality where it is needed.
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What we have put into production so far…
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Photo Album
by User
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Conclusion
After discussion both in the session and in the bar afterwards it would seem a guidance area in the footer would be the starting point. It would require no changes to the core code and not be as restrictive as a wizard, but give suggestions of what the student may want to do next with functional links Eg, on populating a page the suggestion may be ‘would you like to share this page or add this page to a collection’ and so on. The link taking the student to the appropriate place to do such.
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Roger EmeryLearning Technologies
Southampton Solent University@SolentRoger