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Being sighted doesn't help with Moodle. Once, my college updated it to some then-new version with completely different interface (plus some custom college-brand
by Blagus 3y ago
Being sighted doesn't help with Moodle. Once, my college updated it to some then-new version with completely different interface (plus some custom college-branded CSS) and something didn't work right in one of the courses.
I've had the misfortune of peeking into the lecturer's side of it, and there were four of us trying to decipher how to change some simple setting. I think it was time-limited visibility of an assignment with file upload or something like that. Something that shouldn't have taken four of us (including the lecturer) over 5 seconds to figure out.
When I think about it, most options related to time-limiting something, or quizes/tests, were so complicated for most of them that they would hack around it by reusing the same items, expiring them in 2099 and then (I guess) manually changing visibility for those present in the room. Then all hell breaks loose when they didn't update the questions correctly and you get like 0% for all correct answers, or they get the results for all 1500 people who ever attended the class, then they manually filter it out for current-year students. Often, our tests would begin like "Do you see it in the Moodle? No? And now? And now? OK, now? Now? Still nothing?".
This was on an ICT college where you'd expect more computer savvy people. But even there, the problems were happening too often to be able to blame users. It's just awful UX.