Students access QMplus multiple times a day to check their module areas for new content, watch lecture recording on Q-Review, access reading lists or get involved in an online discussion. It is important that we design our module areas so that information is structured simply and clearly making it easy to navigate and find information quickly. Long lists of files are particularly difficult to navigate.

Take a look below at a topic called The People’s Palace in a fictitious module.

All the learning content for the module is listed in a linear fashion in a disorganised way making it very hard for a student to understand what they should look at or do in what order. Is this an assessment? Should I read this? Which is most important? Should I go through this in a sequence? What should I do first?

In the second example exactly the same content has been organised into clearly signposted sub-sections within the main section.

• You may notice a few activities in the example that you have not seen before..
  • Use a checklist activity (Moodle doc) to help students keep track of what they need to do.
  • the second is the reading list provided by the the Reading List Online system run by the library.
  • The other is the lightbox gallery: Creating a Lightbox Gallery (Moodle doc)

Organising content like this is very easy to do and you can find more information in this guide: Adding text, images and video using a label (Moodle doc)