Adapt Learning Community: Trouble with Menus

Hi there

We want to provide a top level menu to allow learners to quickly jump to any course page and have had a go at using the Resource plugin in the side drawer, trouble is that any new page opens in a new tab :(

So two related questions:

1. Is the Resource plugin the best way to provide a set of links to content pages or is there a better quick menu structure

2. Is there any way of preventing it from opening the page in a new tab? (The html we are using should open it in the same window but is being overwritten)

Other than that having a lot of fun and looking forward to the editor :)

Dick

Hi Dick

You create a standard Adapt menu through the contentObjects.json in the src folder.

So you'd need one contentObject.json per page.

Or where you after something more bespoke?

Nicola

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Hi Nicola

If I understand you correctly, the issue with using one contentObject with a deep structure or one that has a lot of topics is that its far too easy to get lost in the navigation and it takes a lot of scrolling,

I would really love to use a resource drawer with a tab for each unit and in teach unit a list of topics. We can do that but as I say it opens up the topic in a new windows tab (again people get lost)

The demo has that whole progress menu thing which would be great but not yet implemented.

Our course(s) typlically have 6 units each of which have 4-topics and an assingment this is just too big to use contentObjects to provide navigation

If I have got this wrong and there is an easy when then I am keen to know - as it stands is a bit unusable.

Dick

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Hi Dick,

It sounds like you're after something almost like a 'Table of Contents' type widget? There is a pageLevelProgress extension but as the name suggests, this is limited to displaying the the progress through a specific page.

The Resources drawer wasn't really intended to be used to link within a course, it was supposed to be for external resources, e.g. PDFs, links to other websites, etc. In saying that, it would be a good idea to have an enhancement to Resources which at least can control whether the resource displays in the same window or a new one. Feel free to add this as an enhancement issue here:

https://github.com/adaptlearning/adapt-contrib-resources

Regards,

Brian

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