learning-unlimited/ESP-Website — Issue #220: User-friendly module management
Author: jmoldow
Created: 2011-12-26 06:40:15+00:00
State: open

Nick Zwolinski from BC writes (in an e-mail to bc-websupport@learningu.org on 12/01/2011 with the subject "Comments on BC Splash Website"), "The website administration pages (the background stuff that we normally don't see), seems to have a lot of modules or models that we don't use and don't know how to use."

It is important to have all of those there, because occasionally someone on the web team will need access to them. However, maybe we could make a different admin page that only has a small subset of the links. It would be nice to have a page with the most commonly used modules, with text descriptions of each of them, that would allow you to add and remove modules. You could still, of course, use the admin panel for a full list of modules. Or, perhaps, an "Advanced" checkbox that would show all the modules when selected.

The downside of this implementation is that we would have to remember to update the hard-coded list of most-commonly-used modules everytime we change modules (I don't know how frequently this will happen).