Intermediate and the re-design

After battling with scroll of death and some long conversations with some nerds about a good user interface we came up with this.



The idea being that each skill (there is one more to come - functions) has its own button, designed by the LTC designers. This means that every course page not only looks the same but, from a student point of view, all of the information they want to see is on screen with no scrolling.
Practically how this works is of course by using a scroll of death which is only seen by admin users so all of the pages can be accessed and edited by moodle admin. Behind each skills button is a contents page which looks very similar to the course page. The side bar blocks have been set to appear in the same place on every page so they eye is not distracted by different information.
The contents page looks a bit like this.


Then after the contents page students can navigate to their grammar point, pronunciation point or reading topic of choice. The grammar page needs to contain some more information about what each topic contains. Some are fairly self explanatory, and if being used in a teacher directed environment it doesn't matter so much but for self access purposes you cannot always expect students to know what a modal verb is.
The final page of the sequence is much the same as it was in version one but of course has been branded and has a slightly nicer lay out (in my humble opinion anyway)



So there you have the structure of the intermediate course. The rest of the site will be made it its image!
A massive thank you must be said to the designers and the web team for the buttons, the branding and the upgrade!!
Oh and Anthony for listening to me whinge....