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Hi @SamGarza1 . I am really excited about the potential of differentiation tags. But from the beginning, somthing bothered me about the Create Tag modal--as I mentioned in this post, the process of creating a tag set is confusing. Why do I have to create at least 2 single tags on the Create screen in order to see the option to create a new tag set. I should be able to indicate that I want to create a new set from the get go. Also, the option to add a new tag to an existing set on the Create modal seems a little awkward to me.
Then I had an "aha" moment. With a few minor adjustments, the Edit Tag modal would make for a much more intuitive Create Tag modal. Like the Edit modal, the Create modal should first ask the user whether they want to create single tags or a tag set (and default to single tags (although I think it might be clearer to call them "standalone" tags) and adjust the UI accordingly. Here's what the Create Tag > Single Tags modal would look like:
And here's how the modal would change if the user opts to create a Tag Set instead of Single Tags. Unlike the current UI, the user first selects or create the name for the tag set before adding tags to it. I think this is more in keeping with the mental process of creating a set e.g., ..."First, I'm going to create a set named A and then add 3 tags to the set named 1, 2, and 3"
I'll be interested to see how other members of the group respond to this idea. To me, it seems to much more natural the current UI for creating tags sets in Create modal (screenshot below):
And for the record, the suggestions I made above are Instructure's, not mine. But they're drawn from the Edit modal rather than the Create modal. If you think about it, more often than not, Create and Edit modals are very similar, if not identical in design.
