Moodle Map

Okey, one of my assignments was to draw the Moodle platform as a school campus, I was could use a metaphor or something else, but it was up to me and how I looked at Moodle as a campus. I actually didnt think that hard on this one, it kinda came to me right away. When I first entered to site I look at it as a mess, and since my head also was a mess with expectations and tenseness about beginning school again in the first place, my head went BOOM. So much to get used to, so many places to navigate and so much links and text. But after awhile, just clicking and experimenting on the page made it more organized and I could get a better grip on what was going on. The more I used the page the easier I could navigate. Thats how I got the idea that the map should be a bomb being organized, get order in chaos. I wanted to make a cartoon blast, I think that it looks the best for this drawing, and icons fly away and lands in cardboard boxes, and gets organized. I added some icons that I think Moodle is about, like speech bubbles, documents, and other thinks that could be organized, and I added the glasses to represent learning. I drew some sketches before starting with the final product, and here they are:

I was thinking on leaving the drawing in black and white, but after seeing the finished product I quickly decided to add color. I was empty and without any depth, so it needed color. I chose a normal cardboard color for the boxes, and red for the blast ring, guess red is kinda a blast color? and I light color in the middle for the red to stand out more. For Moodle I chose orange, because the Moodle logo is orange. I thought about using red since the Noroff logo is red, but decided that It was the Moodle color that should be used since it was our campus. For the icons I used normal colors, some colors I took from the Moodle icons themself, other I chose colors that they are usually portrayed as.

After I was done coloring the map, I said to myself, I really should get better at drawing, but hey! its my first week as a student and Im going get much more time to learn how to draw, especially on my Mac. That I’m looking forward to! but any who, here’s my finished drawing on how I look at Moodle as a learning campus. From chaos comes order.