Course Index Drawer - simplified editing!
The course index is the collapsible drawer on the left and it will change your (Moodle Editing) life!. It displays course sections and elements. As you move up and down the central course area, your location is highlighted in the Course index. Clicking on an item in the Course index will open it up directly in the course central area. Where items are indented in the main area, they will also be indented in the index.
This means
users can directly go to any section, activity or resource by using this textual menu
editors can drag and drop sections to rearrange their courses, and easily rearrange items from one section to another.
Gradebook access and view - more sensibly arranged!
The gradebook comes with a few improvements: easier access via Grades in the new direct link menu at the top of each course and the large gradebook spreadsheet has a fixed width on the page (no more horizontal scrolling)
The page has a fixed width, i.e. there is no more horizontal scroll bar.
Navigation Menus
Navigation menus are much better in Moodle 4.1. Expand to see how they have been more neatly and “intuitively” assembled. .
The highlighted new menus (administrator mode with editing off) within a course, while expanded.
At the very top, we have a menu of links to other LSE sites, just as before.
On the very left the “hamburger menu” that navigates across the site. In this screenshot it shows the titles as well as the icons, but by clicking on the top left icon it can be made much more narrow, displaying only the icons. We expect most users will narrow it once they have become familiar with the meaning of the icons.
In the middle, which displays the Course Content, we now have a Quick Navigation Menu, which links to frequently used actions. These differ of course for students and staff follow the quick navigation link to read more.
On the very right, we have the new BLOCKS area. These are in a drawer, which can be closed and opened to make the main middle content space bigger. The next screenshot shows what the course page looks like when left and right handed menus have been collapsed.
The main page space has been given over to the Course Content. The Course Index (see Course Index Spotlight) can of course be shown for easier navigation when necessary. Click on the white menu button to the right of the black Site Menu bar. The Block drawer can be opened by clicking on the white < button in the top right corner of the course page, when needed. This is the same for all users, students and teacher (editors).