Recently, we developed a Moodle UX that works like any popular streaming music site. Where courses are albums (with album artwork) and resources are tracks, each with custom and editable icons. Lastly, we created a playlist feature whereby teachers and students can create custom playlists and add resources to them which can then be shared with other users on the site.
Here’s how it looks:
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When inside a course, all resources are time-tagged, and the total time of all the resources informs the student how long the course will last. It lists the number of tracks (resources) along with the summary.
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Teachers can upload custom artwork for activities, so instead of using Moodle icons for PDFs, for example, every PDf on the course can have its own unique icon/image. Pretty cool eh?
Students can create their own playlists. So they could, for example, add all their assignments from all of their courses into one “Assignment Playlist“. Or create a playlist called “Things I need to do this week“.
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They can share playlists with classmates too!
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Currently, this Moodle site actually delivers music production courses, so it fits it perfectly. But the concepts can be applied to other subjects too. For example, construction or health care. A student may be enrolled on multiple construction courses and need a way to organise their own learning. So instead of wading through courses, and scrolling through topics, they can add them with a single click and store them in one place. And because it feels “familiar”, and not like an LMS, then users adopt it really quickly.
Other features include:
– A random (feeling lucky) button that selects a resource not yet completed, just for fun!
– An upcoming assignments block on the dashboard
– A block that pulls all new resources across all enrolled courses into a simple to-do list
– Plus a whole bunch of other cool stuff (enough to be blog posts in their own right)