[Andrew Field]

Related to an earlier post about changing size of resource links in Moodle (see: http://www.effective...showtopic=2058), I've recently become concerned that the size of text in the most recent Moodle gradebook was too small. It is understandably small when teachers are looking for an overview of a range of students, but when an individual student was looking at their own feedback the whole body text was just too small.

This relates to Moodle 1.9.5+ where the gradebook has been substantially improved and tweaked.

It took quite a bit to track down too - I went through all the theme files in 'standard' and our custom theme - there appeared to be nothing related to this. Eventually, with the help and suggestions of colleagues via Twitter (@jonesieboy @timdalton) I was able to uncover the a file that set gradebook css regardless of the theme.

It can be found in: moodle / grade/ report / user / styles.php

If you look around line 26, you'll see:

table.user-grade {
   border: 1px solid black;
   margin: auto;
   padding: 0.25em;
   font-size: 0.7em;
}

I changed this to:

table.user-grade {
   border: 1px solid black;
   margin: auto;
   padding: 0.25em;
   font-size: 1em;
}

The key part is the font-size setting - experiment with that until you find what you like

[goneunderground]

Thanks for this - I will try it out on a test Moodle and bear it in mind as one of my "useful tips and tricks" when training

[Andrew Field]

goneunderground, on 17 November 2009 - 06:05 PM, said:

Thanks for this - I will try it out on a test Moodle and bear it in mind as one of my "useful tips and tricks" when training

No problem - it is only for Moodles that have the latest gradebook, but I'm sure you know that. What did surprise me is that there is a self-contained CSS file - so even if you have the very best, top-notch custom designed theme, your theme wouldn't even touch it.

I fully understand why the Moodle gradebook has to have a smaller font - to allow for the whole set of grades to be viewed. However, I'm mistified why the small font is retained for students to view their own feedback. Hence why I suggested the above hack. Using it with students in the last couple of days, this really has made a positive impact - students can view what written feedback we've given them. That is the main thing!