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Hi everyone! I'm Emma, work as a single site IT Tech for a small primary school on the wirral, full time which i believe is pretty uncommon for a primary school around here, still keeps me busy though. role consists of babysitting a mostly well behaved RM network (windows minus a few ipads/ipods), Web design/development, smartboards/cameras etc..basically if it has a plug on it or requires a battery its my responsibility. Started out in IT as a one.doc coordinator at a powerstation, hated it. Moved to the education sector and absolutely love it!

hello! I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with embedding a flash navigation menu onto the front page of Moodle? I'm almost there with our new Moodle but it still needs tweaking so may display wrong in some browsers. I’m keen to get this sorted but am unsure on the best way to set up the navigation and it would be easier to sort that first. If you would take a look at Woodlands moodle I would appreciate any input. Basically we made the leap from our VLE to Moodle which is still very new to me (Thank god for the IT guys at Prenton!) This is the VLE the school was using before I joined them Woodlands old VLE The majority of the staff hated using it and the youngest kids had trouble with the usability of it. So with the new Moodle I am trying to make it more user friendly and more appealing for them to use. We have a lot of EAL kids in our school so I have purposely tried to use image & text links where possible and give it a similar sort of design to other sites they use frequently. I have already made a few flash games to go up on the site and had no problems with getting them on when I tested it so I doubt it would be much of a hassle to do the same on the front page? The staff that have seen our Moodle at its current state are having some trouble grasping the idea of Moodle’s courses. so.. I am considering a flash menu on the front page which points them to the places they will need in 'simple terms'. I’m worried that doing so may result in there being too much going on which might contradict the idea of making it more user friendly. I have explained this so badly, but what I'm looking for is some advice from other schools using Moodle, especially primary schools on how they went about making their moodle navigation work for them and whether a flash menu seems like it would make things easier or if it isn't worth doing?