Making our page look prettier
Is this really important? Shouldn't we be getting on with all of the other activities that Moodle can offer? Yes we should, and we shall, but it is vital that we make our course page appeal to the students. I cannot stress this enough. We have looked at this in Chapter 1, Getting Started, when we set our course up, and now that we've got topics with worksheets, folders, hyperlinks, and web pages that are starting to fill the screen space, it's worth looking at it again. We really need to ensure that our classes don't just take one look and run. Long pages of writing are sure to turn the users off.
How do you think the users might react to a Moodle page that appears as shown in the following screenshot?
Even though it looks like a nice picture, the arrangement of the worksheets doesn't seem very pleasant to the eyes. We can do two things to improve it:
Put them into a folder and show only that folder (Folder)
Add a bit of white space between the worksheets to separate...