RE: [Aimmath-developers] planned changes

[Neil S. <N.P...@sh...>]

> 1) improve navigation for the lecturer by having a navigational bar on all
> administrative pages that allows the lecturer to jump directly to the most
> important administrative pages.

We could do some ad hoc improvements for the current release.  In the longer
term, we should have toolbars and drop-down menus, more in the style of
other
standard applications, and we should have some new functions in Admin.mpl to
support the creation of such widgets, rather than the current piecemeal
approach.

> 2) improve help by having pop-up help windows for most of the links on the
> administrative pages. I want to do this moodle-style, i.e., with a little
> question mark icon next to the link. When clicking on the question mark a
> pop-up window opens with a description of the page that will be opened by
> that link. I won't have to do too much writing because the help text is
> already there in teacher.html.

That is an excellent idea, which I had also thought of implementing.  There
should again be some development of Admin.mpl to support it, but that should
not be too much work.  Nonetheless, it will probably need to wait for the
next release.

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In my opinion, the most important missing feature in the current version is
the
ability to upload and download quizzes or subjects in a portable format.
Provided that we ignore images (which we could reasonably do, as a
first step) this would be fairly easy to implement.  There are some
complexities
about handling images, especially if you want to allow some images specific
to
a particular question and others shared by all questions in a subject, but
that
problem could be attacked separately.  Once we have a decent way to package
subjects and quizzes, we can set up a framework to distribute them over the
web,
or to move them to a new AIM installation.

Neil