Hi,
while porting the Home View I am dealing as well with the RandomLayout.
When it was introduced the idea was to give learners a chance to
personalize their home view and group activities together if desired.
This was basically mimicking the desktop metaphor.
I agree that there is value in letting users customize their home view,
in grouping activities for example, like grouping in subjects (e.g.
math, language). I question a bit that the RandomLayout is a good tool
for that. There is no grid where the icons get snapped to, no visual
indication of groups only by positioning. And the current implementation
is mainly a proof of concept which is not very precise in placing icons
close to each other.
So my questions are now:
- is it used in deployments? If, in which ways do kids use it? What do
they like about it and what do they try to achieve with it?
- do we want to keep supporting the FreeFormLayout? Or work on a better
activity managing layout?
- if we remove it, do we still want to port it? I am close for the
no-hippo part, but it is another complex bit, that we need to invest and
if we don't want to go forward with it no need to invest there.
Regards,
Simon
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