27 February 2026 to 1 March 2026
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Moodle Plugin UI/UX Issues and Fixes: A Community Team Approach

28 Feb 2026, 09:20
1h 30m
ビレッジ / Village 機能開発 / Moodle Development Villages / ヴィレッジ

Speakers

Brendon Muir (Sapporo Gakuin University) Don Hinkelman (Sapporo Gakuin University) Matthew Cotter (Hokusei Gakuen University)

Description

Over twenty Moodle plugins are designed, programmed and maintained by members of the Moodle Association of Japan. Maintaining a Moodle plugin requires responding to user reports of bugs and feature requests, keeping compatibility with new Moodle version releases, submitting code to the global Plugins Database, and providing training and documentation in Japanese and English. While introducing new features and ensuring functionality is bug-free, UI/UX considerations can unfortunately take a back seat – especially when development work is outsourced.
One community-based team of educator-developers will present the Moodle plugin UI/UX issues they face with a complex plugin: the VAM (Video Assessment Module), which they maintain, and the Assignment module with Rubrics, a core module. The issues include setup confusion, navigation trouble in an option-rich settings menu, user issues – especially on mobile devices, and others.
This village focuses on Community-based Moodle design and programming. We welcome anyone who has Plugin UI/UX issues to share their experiences, and invite HQ experts and global teams to advise us as well. Of course, we plan to discuss solution ideas from a user, maintainer, and/or developer perspective. This includes a presentation of history and issues in English with translated slides in Japanese. Discussion in both English and Japanese.

発表日の希望 / Preferred Day いずれの日でも結構です / Either day is fine
MAJ R&D Grant いいえ

Authors

Brendon Muir (Sapporo Gakuin University) Don Hinkelman (Sapporo Gakuin University) Matthew Cotter (Hokusei Gakuen University)

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