#77: Allow sortable contents lists

Contents

Allow course contents to be sorted by title, size, date modified, or release state.

Proposed by: Marion Jensen, USU OCW
Proposal type: User interface
State: in-progress

Motivation

It is not uncommon for a course to have 100+ objects. Some contain close to 1000. Currently these objects don't appear in any specific order in the contents view. This makes finding a particular object in a large course very difficult, especially since objects can only be displayed 20 at a time. Allowing the contents view to be sorted would give content producers a way to find specific content much more efficiently.

Proposal

Course contents should be sortable by title, size, date modified, or release state.

Implementation

While in the contents view, clicking on a table header should allow the contents to be sorted by that column (either title, size, date modified, or release state).

Sort users as well?

Posted by Tom Caswell at Mar 06, 2009 01:24 PM

Some OCWs have very large user lists. If a similar sorting capability can be applied here for minimal extra cost, we should do it. Otherwise we should create a new improvement proposal.

From Cathy Schulz at Notre Dame OCW: One thing that immediately comes to mind is that I’d like to see some sorting capabilities (click column heading to sort), especially for the lists of course files and user names. For example, I want to look at users by their level of permission, so that I can update where needed. (Yesterday, I discovered 2 users who should have been Producer and QA, but had admin privileges… yikes!)