Move (sub-)settings for additional features to new subtab

1 Initial Problem

Disclaimer: This affects both courses and groups. I will henceforth only speak of courses, but the feature should be implemented for both objects.

The settings in the section "additional featuers" in courses offers greate possibilities and are essetial for many sceanrios in the day to day e-learning life at universities - just think of the news functionalities, the calendar, "mail to members", ...

While some settings are simply a chechbox that switches the feature on and off, other settings require a configuration workflow or additional steps for the feature to work at all (news, bagdes, competences, ...). In the current implementation it is possible to switch more than one of these features on (or toggle) in one go, since all checkboxes are localted on the same page otgether with all other course settings.

Therefore, necessary second steps like (1) "Activate News" -> (2) Activate News Block and/or Timline -> (3) Configure Behaviour of Block / Timeline are not possible. Course admins need to see either the very subtle new subtab "news settings" or the new tab (bagdes).

We should find a better solution which makes auch secondary configurations steps better accessible and easier to handle.

2 Conceptual Summary

The (additional) course settings should be reorganised in such a way, that all settings from the section "additional features" are moved to a new subtab "Settings" --> "Additional Features".

The new subtab should be designed in such a way, that configuration workflows or "second steps" are easier to see and change than it is realised now. Therefore a table should be introduced that works like the table in "Administration" - "Plugins" providing:

• the current Infotext as a description in a column
• a (new) "Status" message for each setting and an "Action" menu button (default: either "activated" or "deactivated", possible more telling info)
• an "Action" menu button with the the options "Activate"/"Deactivate", for some settings "Configure"

In order to make the change of UI easier for experienced users,  the space on the "Course settings" page beneath the last section could then be used to s´display the status of the options together with a "Got to settings page" link, just like it is done numerous times in the administration (e.g. course administration)

Here is an exmple with an easy and a more complex option:

Here is the complete table (work in progress :))

3 User Interface Modifications

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5 Contact

• Author of the Request: Glaubitz, Marko [mglaubitz], Universität Freiburg
  
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