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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>It’s possible to do – Moodle uses
this.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If you’re on any page where you have
creation/editing permissions you have a button that says “turn editing on”
– then you add blocks, content, change the contents of a page or whatever
wherever you’re working. You can leave it on, or “turn editing off”
to view the normal admin interface, then there’s a further “student
view” which allows you to see things as a student would.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The flipside of this is there’s no
backend for content – no block page, no mass node editing/moderation etc.
– it’s all contextual apart from admin, admin jobs. So it actually
makes things a lot slower for some tasks. I think it’s good for academic
staff/non-technical administrators to be able to change things without having
to know where to look, in terms of Drupal I guess it’d be good for
multi-site hosting. I personally really don’t like it, and the changes to
the drupal admin interface I’ve seen floated elsewhere would seem to make
more sense (i.e. grouping all content administration together – task rather
than module based). If I want to administer blocks – I go to block
administration, I don’t want to go to every page it appears and change
the settings there (which is close to how moodle does it, although I’ve
not been using it long).</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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Hmmm, I just had an interesting idea... I'll get flamed for it I'm sure as I
have no way to implement it, or even if it's possible. <br>
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But what seems like it would be cool is, to provide a "Lock/Unlock"
Theme switch that an admin could even hide. So somewhere, on the default
theme, Perhaps above the Login area, or somewhere on the actual Primary
Links, you have something like: Theme Details: Change / Hide
This [?] <br>
<br>
Perhaps we use AJAX goodness, and if you click the "Change" button,
then the logo, mission statement, other items right there on the front page
immediately become editable via some form or some thing. Next to
the Drupal Logo would now be the words: "Click to change this image".
with AJAX browse for new logo and upload all rolled into one easy thingy. <br>
<br>
If they click the [?] it tells them what that stuff is all for. If
they click Hide, it prompts "Are you sure you want to hide this, it will
make it more difficult for you to change your theme elements in the
future?" <br>
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