The system should allow individual courses to be presented
differently.
Via the inclusion of introduction text and images, courses
can be given a certain degree of flexibility that allows them
to be presented in a different manner.
The system should allow descriptive text to be included
with resources.
During the creation of a resource and its inclusion into
the system, the environment allows descriptive text to be
added.
The system should be largely text based with minimal
use of images to keep download times to a minimum.
Images within the site and required for the AA Board Set
assignment were kept to a minimum when displayed or if complex
made only available as a download. Students found that page
loading times for the final system were perfectly acceptable
even when viewed through a standard dial-up connection.
Instructional material should be provided for forum usage.
As only 38% of the student surveyed during the requirements
capture phase had any experience with forum usage, a basic
guide to the forums was created and made available to the
students through the environment.
The system should be easy to navigate and avoid the need
to use the back button.
Moodle uses a system called breadcrumbs to provide a continually
updating navigation chain that can be used to return to previous
sections of the environment and is always present when within
the environment.
The system should contain in-built help.
Moodle contains a thorough help directory that can be customised
to provide specific help as required. The majority of Moodle
functions and functional areas have help text associated with
them via a simple graphic.
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