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Back Button On All Pages

1 Description

We advocate a general back-button in ILIAS on all sides.
The navigation through the list of recently visited links is not timely and difficult to handle and causes that content is not found or processed by inexperienced learners.
The best place for that back-button would be directly above and below the main frame and should be highlighted.

2 Status

• Scheduled for Release: Not scheduled yet
• Funding: Partly funded by The Phone House Deutschland GmbH
• Development: Feature is to be developed by

3 Additional Information

• If you want to know more about this feature, its implementation or funding, please contact: Kristian Edelstein / Kristian.Edelstein@phonehouse.de

4 Discussion

I am developing a Plugin for this purpose. I'm waiting for the final release of 4.2 and then I will release the plugin. (Simon Moor HSLU)

JF 10 Oct 2011: It is unclear to us, how the exact behaviour of this button should be. E.g. the behaviour of...

• last visited (only single repository ressources are stored)
• browser back button (going back to the last visited screen)
• former "Up" button in ILIAS (jumped to the next parent context (category, course, folder) of the current ressource)

... is very different. Maybe you could clarify your requirement. Currently we do not see the need to add such an additional user interface element.

UW 13. Oct 2011: HS Bremen can approve this need: our users with longlasting ILIAS experience are missing the former "Up"-button - an tell us about that after every upgrade!

The breadcrumb path serves this need in principle (to go back to the “parent” object), but:
the current GUI-design with the restrained designed colour of the breadcrumb path does not support fast identifying the parent object, especially when institutions use long titles (often containing abbreviations and brackets) for groups and categories - they have to browse long text lines to identify the segmentation arrows...
Maybe, “highlighting” the parent object in the breadcrumb menue in some way would support this need, as well? (without disturbing usability and screen design, of course!)

5 Follow-up